Ingredients:

Chillies 22

Buttermilk ( enough to soak them)

Salt

Hot chillies

Method:

• It is simple but lengthy process.
• It took me two weeks here in US because of weather fluctuation.
• It’s worth the wait, believe me.
• Any green chilli is fine, because it won’t be spicy after it is dried up.
• Wash and dry the chillies.
• Make slits vertically, but make sure it doesn’t open up completely.
• You don’t have to remove the seeds, but if u wish to u can remove it now.
• Now soak the green chillies in enough quantity of buttermilk with salt added to it.
• Immerse for 3 days and nights. Mix twice a day.
• Take out the green chillies from the butter milk on fourth day morning and sun dry it all day by spreading them on newspaper.
• I changed the buttermilk on 4th day evening and put the chillies in them in the evening.
• Remember to remove them in the evening and put them in the buttermilk until next morning and sun dry them for 3 days.
• Do this for 3 days.
• After 3rd day sun dry the chillies for 2 days.
• They are ready to be fried.
• Perfect with sambhar and rice.
• Weather was not good for some days here so i just dried them in the house and whenever sun was there i dried it outside.

This goes to sangeeth’s Eat healthy- Calcium rich contest:

http://letusallcook.blogspot.com/2008/08/eat-healthy-calcium-rich.html