Curd Chilies

Total Time: 216 hrs 2 mins Preparation Time: 216 hrs Cook Time: 2 mins

Ingredients

• 250 g long and big green chilies
• 1 liter buttermilk
• salt (plus a little more)
• 1 teaspoon turmeric powder

Recipe

• 1 first of all thick butter milk is required.
• 2 to this butter milk add turmeric powder and salt.
• 3 wash the green chillies and slit them lengthwise but not all the way through (just to the knob on the top).
• 4 put all the green chillies in the butter milk.
• 5 keep the green chillies in butter milk for three days covered, mixing it well for a minute each day.
• 6 on the fourth day squeeze the buttermilk from chillies, spread them in a plate and dry in the sun.
• 7 in the night return the greenchillies to the buttermilk and cover them.
• 8 the next day repeat the same procedure and do this for seven days.
• 9 after the final thorough drying (and you may need to sit them out in the sun for 2-3 days bringing them in at night but not putting them in buttermilk-- just sit them on the countertop), they can be stored in an air tight container.