Mirchi ka Salan

Ingredients:

           Green Chillies (long) - 8-10

           Tomatoes - 2

           Onion(big) -1

           Tamarind pulp - 2 tbsp

           Cooking oil - 5 tsp

           Curry leaves - 6

           Coriander-cumin seeds powder - 2 tsp

           Chilli powder - 2 tsp

           Chopped coriander - 2 tbsp

           Cumin seeds -1 tsp

           Fenugreek seeds -1/4 tsp

           Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

           Cloves - 6

           Grated coconut - 5 tsp

           Garlic paste - 2 tsp

           Sesame seeds - 2 tbsp

           Roasted peanuts - 2 tbsp

           Water - 2 cups

           Salt as required

Method of preparation:

1. Take cloves, garlic paste, onion, tomatoes, grated coconut and grind it. Make it into paste. Keep the paste in a bowl separately.
2. Take roasted peanuts, sesame seeds and cumin seeds. Grind them into fine powder. Keep the powder in a separate bowl.
3. Take 8 or 10 green chillies, wash them thoroughly and remove the seeds of chillies.
4. Put chillies in hot salt water for 5 minutes. Take them out and let it dry.
5. Heat pan add 2 tbsp oil fry the dried boiled chillies for 2 minutes.
6. In the same oil, add fenugreek seeds, mustard seeds and curry leaves. Fry them until the seeds crackle.
7. Add the tomatoes paste which was prepared earlier and fry it for a while. Add turmeric powder, chilli powder, dry powder masala and coriander-cumin seeds powder. Fry the ingredients for 10minutes.
8. Add 2 cups of water and cumin seeds powder which was prepared earlier.
9. Add the fried chillies to the pan and cook until the gravy becomes thick. Add required quantity of salt.
10. Gravy should be thick. Garnish the curry with pieces of onion and lemon.
11. Hot and delicious Mirchi Ka Salan is ready to eat. It is better to eat with veg biryani or plain rice.