Oora Mirapa Kayalu

Ingredients:
Green chillies - 500 gms (Long and thick variety)
Sour Butter Milk - 1 litre (thick)
Salt to taste
Ajwain Powder ( Vamu)- 1 tbsp

Method:

• Take thick and long green chillies, wash and dry them.
• Slit the green chillies with needle or safety pin.
• Take a mixing bowl or jar, pour butter milk along with salt and ajwain powder and mix well.
• Now put green chillies in butter milk.( green chillies must be completely covered with buttermilk).
• Close the lid and keep aside for 3 days.
• On 4th day, separate green chillies from butter milk and dry them directly to the sun.
• In the evening again put them in same butter milk. Neat day again dry them in sunlight  and evening put them back in buttermilk.
• Do it till butter milk completely absorbs and chillies are dried.
• Once chillies are completely dry. Store them in air tight container.
• Fry them as  side dish with rice and dal or sambar.