Kurryamadhu Podi /Poriyal Powder/ Vegetable flavoring / Subzi powder

This powder is very handy. Trust me, it boosts up the taste and kinda of use it for all powder.

Things we need

Channa Dal - 3 tbs
Corriander seeds - 2 tbs
Red Chillies - 8
Asafoetida

Dry roast all these and grind them coarsely.

 To make any curry, heat up a wok/kadai, add oil, mustard seeds, once its sputters, add the veggie (Brinjal, Raw banana (vazaikai), potato, Colocasia (sezpan kizangu), etc. Add salt and turmeric powder to this. Allow the veggie to cook. When its almost cooked, add this powder cover and cook for a couple more minutes.
Its done. Podi thuviya Kurryamadhu .

When we are making Pulippu kootu or even sambar, just mix 2 spoons of this powder to the cooked dal and allow it to boil.  It compliments to the taste.

A must have podi in the kitchen for me

Paruppu Podi/ Dal Powder

This is a must have kitchen item in case we are so bored to cooked.


Things we need


Urad Dal    - 1/2 cup
Toor  Dal     - 1 cup
Moong  Dal  - 1 cup
Black Pepper - 1 1/2 spoons
Red chilli   - 2 or 3
Salt

Dry roast the chilli, black pepper and add asafoetida to it.. Roast the dals separately. Then grind both into a fine powder adding salt .
Its ready. Make hot rice, add ghee mix the powder with it. Serve hot with deep fried or roasted masala papad.

Its has a lot of  protein

Rasam Podi/ Rasam Powder

Moving to a new place, I need to equip my kitchen for comfortable functioning. I had already posted the Sambar Podi. This is the homemade instant rasam podi. It is pretty easy to make & shelve.

Here are the things we need

Toor Dal              -  1 cup
Coriander seeds   -  3 cup
Black pepper       -  3/4 cup
Red chilli              -  4 or 5
Cumin Seeds        -  1/2 cup
Asafoetida            -  a little

Dry roast the first four ingredients and allow it to cool. Grind them along with the cumin seeds.

For the recipe of how make Rasam, follow the link.

Sambar Podi / kozambu Podi/ curry powder

Living In the U.S and running out of stock for homemade Sambar powder is something I always dreaded. I always make the freshly ground masala for sambar. And when I ask for a recipe, I get stone walled telling that I needed a machine (a typical one in India to grind these powders) or I need to have it dried under the hot sun. Both of which is an impossible thing here. My quest ended with my Sister in law, Sumithra Ranganath's easy recipe. It came out really great.

Here are the things we need
Coriander seed - 1 cup
Urad dal           - 1 cup
Channa dal       - 1 cup
Methi seeds     - 1 table spoon
Mustard seeds - 1 table spoon
Red chilli          - 250 gms ( typically this is only a rough measure) 
Asafoetida       -  a little
Turmeric powder - 4 spoons
Cinnamon    - 5 grams.
Maratti Mogghhu (Star Anise) - 5 grams


Dry roast all the above ingredients until golden brown and once you smell the fried chilli Switch off allow it too cool  and grind it to fine powder.


One can skip the last 2 ingredients too.


This powder can be used to make  Sambar, Curries.