Uppu Mirapa Kaayalu / Curd Chillies

Hi Friends,This recipe is from my Mother & Mother -In-Law. It's easy and we need to make sure we have a good sun .It's  good  to prepare it during the summer season.

Ingredients:

•  Fresh Green Chillies 1/2 Kg
• Yogurt / Buttermilk  slightly  Sour   1 litre ( neither thin or thick)
• Salt  to taste 
• Plastic Sheet or Cloth to Place the chillies to dry it  under the sun.

Method:

• Wash the green chillies and dry them on a kitchen napkin .
• Slit them vertically keeping the ends intact and also retain the stalks of green chillies.
• Remove the Seeds if they are spicy.
• Add salt to buttermilk and beat nicely,the consistency of buttermilk should neither be very thin nor thick.
• Add the green chillies to the buttermilk mixture.
•  Make sure they are well immersed in the buttermilk.
• Cover it and soak it for 3 days and leave it aside.They will slightly change in color after 3 days.
• After 3 days squeeze them slightly with hands and arrange them in a single layer on a plastic sheet and dry them under sun until evening.Keep the buttermilk don't pour it away.
• In the evening again add them to the left over buttermilk mixture and let it sit in the buttermilk mixture overnight.
• Next day morning squeeze them again and dry them until evening on the plastic sheet ,arrange the chillies neatly in rows space between them .
•  Follow the same process for the chillies until all the buttermilk mixture is finished.It might take few days 5-6 days.
• After the buttermilk mixture is finished you can dry them in sun for another few days until they are completely dried.
• Store them in an air tight container.It stays for more than a year.

Serving Style:

• You can fry it and serve this along with Rice ,Sambhar,Dal.
• Curd chillies can be tempered with cumin , mustard seeds and pinch of turmeric to be served with the meals.
• Fried curd chillies can be added to rice flour upmas & Senagala Mixture / Masala.