veg side dish for biryani | mirchi ka salan | Hyderabadi mirchi ka salan is a famous salan in Andhra. It is perfectly matched with biryani, pulao, rotis, and also with rice. This curry either made with spicy chilly or with less spicy chilly. I used a less spicy one in this recipe (usually the chilly used in Mirchi bajji in Tamilnadu) Peanut, sesame seeds are the highlighted ingredients in this recipe along with tamarind. This curry will be smooth in texture that is adopted from the peanut and sesame seeds
The name mirchi means chilly, salan means curry. It is nothing but a long chilly curry (mirchi ka salan)
Let us see how to make veg side dish for biryani | mirchi ka salan
Written Recipe for veg side dish for biryani | mirchi ka salan:
Ingredients
Method
- firstly, dry roast the ingredients (2-tbsp peanuts, 2 tsp- coriander seeds, 3-dry red chilly, 1/4 -tsp fenugreek seeds, 1-tbsp sesame seeds, 1-tbsp poppy seeds, in low flame for 3 minutes
- Then add 2-tbsp dry coconut(desiccated coconut), dry roast it in low flame till it becomes slightly brown
- Let this mixture to cool
- Grind it with little water to a smooth paste, and keep it side
- Firstly heat 4 tbsp of oil in a pan, add-in 3 long chillies de-seeded
- Fry it in medium flame for 5 minutes, and then take off
- With the remaining oil, splutter 1 tsp of mustard seeds, 1/2 tsp of cumin seeds, then add few curry leaves
- Next, add in 1 tbsp of ginger garlic paste (or crushed), and 1 onion thinly chopped
- saute it till onion becomes glossy
- and then add in ground paste, 1/4 tsp turmeric powder, 1/4 tsp of garam masala, salt.Saute it for a few minutes till oil seperates
- Now pour in 1 cup of tamarind extract, give a mixAnd then dilute it with1/2 cup of water, mix
- cover it with lid, cook in low flame for 10 minutes
- open the lid, add in fried chillies, keep the flame low for 5 more minutes
- finally garnish with coriander leaves
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(veg side dish for biryani | mirchi ka salan)
Now the veg side dish for biryani | mirchi ka salan is ready.
I tried it with plain rice, it was good with it too
mirchi ka salan, this curry is a nice accompaniment for pulao, biryani, parota, rotis even for idli dosa. A good veg side dish for biryani. This curry nicely pairs with coconut milk pulao. coconut milk pulao with mirchi ka salan
Note:
- While dry roasting the ingredients, keep the flame low till you finish. Even after finishing, if you feel it is too much heat, you can cool down by pouring 1/4 cup water. this will cool down immediately. (then you can transfer it to blender jar with water to blend
- Here I used 1 cup thin tamarind extract, you can adjust the quantity based on the thickness of tamarind extract
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