A few days back, the husband came to me with a challenge. A cooking challenge at that. We had a pack of baby corns and as I was wondering what to do with them, he asked me if I could make him Chilli Baby Corn. Few years back, he had tasted a crispy Chilli Chicken and he wanted me to replicate that taste. Hah! After all, I don’t even eat meat and I had not even tried that dish. Still, considering this challenge an important one in our marriage (hehehe :D) I set out to make Chilli baby corn, making do with the ingredients at hand. He agreed to prepare rotis to go with it and not only did I make this side dish faster than him, it did remind him of the tasty stuff he had years ago. Yay! With no further ado, here is the recipe for my Chilli Baby Corn.
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To make Chilli Baby Corn | Crispy Baby Corn Chilli Recipe
What I used –
To make Crispy Babycorn Fry -
- Baby Corn, 15-20
- Corn Flour, ½ cup (or less)
- All Purpose Flour, 2 tbsp
- Red Chilli Powder, 1 tsp
- Salt, as required
- Water, as required (very little)
- Oil, for deep frying
To make the Chilli Sauce –
- Oil, 2 tsp
- Garlic Finely Chopped, 1 tbsp
- Green Chillies, 5-6
- Onion Finely Chopped, ⅓ cup
- Capsicum Finely Chopped, ⅓ cup
- Soy Sauce, 1 tbsp
- Red Chilli Sauce, 1 tbsp
- Tomato Ketchup, 1 tbsp
- Red Chilli Powder, 1 tsp
- Salt, as required
- Spring Onion, few strands
How I made –
1. In a bowl, add corn flour, all-purpose flour, salt, red chilli powder and mix well. Add some water and make it into a thick batter. Add chopped baby corn and mix well. Make sure all the baby corn pieces are coated well.
2. Meanwhile heat oil for deep frying. Once the oil is hot, keep the flame on medium and gently drop a few pieces of baby corn and fry until golden brown. Remove them onto a plate. Repeat the same for rest of the baby corn pieces.
3. In a pan, heat 2 teaspoon of oil. Add finely chopped garlic and slit green chillies. After a min, add finely chopped onion and fry until half done. Add finely chopped capsicum and fry for a minute.
4. Add salt, soy sauce, red chilli sauce and tomato ketchup. If required, sprinkle few tablespoon of water. Add red chilli powder (for additional spiciness) and drop the fried baby corn. Give it a quick stir and make sure the chilli sauce is coated well. Sprinkle finely chopped spring onion on top and remove from heat.
5. Serve hot as an appetizer or as a side dish for fried rice/noodles or roti.
Note –
- The crispy fried baby corn can be served as it is.
- Green Chillies add required spiciness to this dish but as I wanted additional spiciness, added red chilli powder as well. Adjust as per preference.
- If serving for roti, the chilli sauce can be diluted a bit but baby corn would crispness.
- User very little water to make the batter for coating baby corn. Too watery - the baby corn would be soggy and absorb a lot of oil.
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Taking this to Fiesta Friday #108 at Angie’s. A shout out to the co-hosts for this week – Suzanne @ apuginthekitchen and Zeba @ Food For The Soul.
Arch
Awesome! Looks mouth watering!
CHCooks
Thanks much Arch 🙂
Lina
Yummm yum yummmmmmm!
CHCooks
Thank you so much Lina ?
Chitra Jagadish
Looks drooolicious. ...
CHCooks
Thank you dear 🙂
lynne hoareau
I can't wait to try this, looks so delicious 🙂
I made your Egg Kurma the other day, it was so lovely and definitely will be making it again. The family loved it, thank you so much for such a great blog.
CHCooks
You really made my day Lynne 🙂 Thanks a bunch for such lovely words! I'm so glad your family enjoyed the Kurma 🙂
srividhya
Looks crispy and delicious..
CHCooks
Thanks Sri 🙂
Jhuls
What a creative idea to replicate such thing that you haven't tasted. Genius! This dish looks really appetizing and a nice recipe to add to my vegetarian list. Btw, red chili sauce can be sweet chili sauce, yeah?
CHCooks
Thank you Jhuls! ? Mine is neither too spicy nor sweet. It has a spicy kick with a little sweet taste and that's why I added some red chilli powder. You can use sweet chilli sauce as well I guess.
Jhuls
Yay! That's great. 😉
CHCooks
Let me know how you liked it when you try this out 🙂
Jhuls
Sure, I will. Thanks for sharing! I am just thinking of the noodles you recently posted. 😀
CHCooks
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Lynz Real Cooking
yummy very nice looking CH!
CHCooks
Thank you Lynn! 🙂
Lynz Real Cooking
Yumm!
CHCooks
Thanks again 🙂
Lynz Real Cooking
most welcome!
Gloria
Looks delicious and lovely!!
CHCooks
Thanks much Gloria 🙂
Osyth
Wow! Those look super delicious. I imagine they disappear even quicker than you made them!!
CHCooks
Thanks Osyth! Hahaha, that's quite right 🙂
My Kitchen Area
yummyyyyyy 🙂
CHCooks
Thanks Anandhi 🙂
Traditionally Modern Food
Crispy and delicious snacks..love it
CHCooks
Thanks dear 🙂
Zeba@Food For The Soul
What a lovely dish...I am looking forward to making this. I have a garlic chilli sauce that I am hoping can be used.
CHCooks
Oh yes, it can be used and it tastes quite good too 🙂 Let me know how it turned out Zeba 🙂
Zeba@Food For The Soul
Thanks and will do!
CHCooks
🙂
Bharani
Super yummy.... Drooling...
CHCooks
Thanks much Bharani 🙂
bhumi
yummy.....already craving...
CHCooks
Thanks much Bhumi 🙂
CHCooks
And welcome to my little space 🙂
Freda @ Aromatic essence
Droolicious !!
CHCooks
Thanks dear 🙂
Parul Singhal
Yummy.I am drooling..
CHCooks
Thanks Parul 🙂
kushigalu
oh my! One of the best that I have seen. Mouth watering and amazingly delicious dear.
CHCooks
Aww thanks much Kushi 🙂
Nish Kitchen
Love Indo-Chinese recipes, This chilli corn looks awesome!
CHCooks
Thank you Rose 🙂
The Taste of the World
Looks so tempting. Love the flavors..Saw you at Fiesta Friday, I just joined last friday.
CHCooks
Thanks much! And welcome to my blog 🙂 Fiesta Friday is a great way to meet new bloggers - will hop onto your blog 🙂