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Mor milagai recipe

Mor milagai, Sundried curd chillies, is a popular sun dried thing made in summertime, using chillies and sour butter milk.
Prep Time7 days
Cook Time0 minutes
Total Time7 days
Course: Condiment
Cuisine: South Indian
Servings: 2 cups
Author: Jeyashri suresh

Ingredients

  • 3 cups Green chili
  • ½ Thick Sour buttermilk
  • Salt as needed

Instructions

  • First make the sour buttermilk by keeping the buttermilk outside the refrigerator for a whole day.
  • Wash the chilis and pat dry them. Slightly slit them in the center. This is to get the buttermilk mixture to seep inside the chillies. A small prick is fine.
  • Put the chillies in a wide bowl, and pour the sour buttermilk on this. Add salt as needed. I used rock salt.
  • Mix this well so that the chillies get nicely coated in the thick sour buttermilk.
  • Let this soak for a 2 days. Cover it and keep it aside.
  • Everyday morning using a clean dry spoon, mix this well.
  • On the third day, take out the chillis only and spread this in a plate and keep it under the sunlight.
  • Let the remaining buttermilk in the vessel be left in it covered.
  • Once it is dried under sunlight for a whole day, take this back and put this into the buttermilk again.
  • The buttermilk will not be more, it will be just 2-3 tbsp left.
  • The next day again take out the chilies and sun dry them. By this time, the buttermilk must have completely absorbed, but if anything left, repeat the same next day.
  • I didn't take step wise pictures after this as i have sent it for drying to my friend's house.
  • Once all the buttermilk are completely absorbed, sun dry the chillies till they become crisp.
  • Once they are crisp, store them in an airtight container and keep it in a dry place.
  • Whenever needed, add 2 tsp of oil in a pan and saute few dried chillis till they turn crisp.
  • Usually they deep fry the mor milagai and use it. If you wish to do it that way go ahead and do it.

Notes

Notes:
1. My mom soak 1 tsp of fenugreek seeds| venthayam overnight and grind this into a fine paste and add it along with sour buttermilk. I somehow didn't like the texture of the venthayam in that, so skipped it.
2. Mor milagai tastes best with Thayir sadam and it's a popular combo of Tamilnadu.