Recipe for Bacon Chilly Fry
Bacon Chilly Fry is a Quick Fix recipe at our home. This chilly fry is made especially when we are super tired or don't really wish to cook up an entire meal. We usually eat it with leftover Pulao or fresh Bread or even Hot Chapatis! Yummmm! The smoky taste of the bacon is enough to get those nostrils all excited and satisfy the growling hungry tummy! When you make this Chilly fry, it's not necessary to make a side. Back in the day, This used to be our favorite Holiday Dinner during our Summer vacation in Goa. Especially when we were back from the Beach in the evening. Those years, we had no takeaway food outlets nor restaurants close to home.However, We were blessed to have (still do)a neighbour who owned a Cold storage and produced a variety of Chicken, Beef and Pork cold meats and sold it from home and supplied to various parts of Goa too. So whenever Mom was tired, she would tell us to go and purchase some Bacon or Ham or Chicken Franks to make a Chilly Fry and we would eat it with Fresh Hot Poi(Goan Flatbread) or Bread that the Poder(Bread seller/Baker) would come to sell on his cycle at 7:00 pm...Such Nostalgia as I write this :) :)Do give this recipe a try. I'm sure you'll love it
Servings 4 people
Ingredients
- 150 gms Bacon(cut into strips) - I have used Pork Bacon. You can use Turkey Bacon too
- 3 Medium Sized Onions(cut long)
- 1 Small Tomato(cut long)
- 1 Medium sized Capsicum(cut long) - you can use a mix of all colours
- 6-8 Curry Leaves
- 1 Tspn Ginger Garlic Paste(Recipe link given below)
- 2 Green Chillies slit
- 5 Kokum(Binda Solam)
- ½ Tspn Turmeric Powder
- 1 Tspn Kashmiri Chilly Powder
- 1 Tspn Vinegar(optional)
- 1 Tbspn Oil
- 2 Tbspn Water
- ½ Tspn Salt(the bacon that I used was with reduced salt. But usually Bacon is quite salty so add salt only if required)
- Some Fresh Coriander chopped fine
Instructions
- In a skillet, add the Onions, Tomato, Chillies, Kokum, Curry Leaves and Oil and keep it on Medium flame
- Once the onions turn translucent, add the Ginger Garlic paste and give it a mix
- Once the Ginger Garlic paste loses its raw smell, add the Capsicum
- Stir it for a minute and then add the Bacon strips and mix it well
- Add the vinegar, Chilly and Turmeric powder and water, mix it well and cover the skillet
- Add the chopped Coriander, mix the chilly fry well and Lower the heat a bit and Let the Bacon cook
- Once the Bacon is cooked, take off the lid and increase the eat and let all the water evaporate
- Once the water is evaporated, enjoy the super Yummy Bacon Chilly fry with some Hot Bread or Pulao. You can also enjoy this as a side dish
