Sunday, August 29, 2010

kootu powder


Ingredients:
1 cup coriander seeds
1 spoon cumin seeds
1 spoon fenugreek seeds
2 red chillies
1 spoon pepper corns
2 spoon rice
2 spoons begalgram dal
1/2 cup coconut scrape

Method:
Take a pan and fry all the ingredients till the flavour comes {5 mins}and add the coconut scrape in the ending to fried spices. After cooling grind to fine powder.

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Karvepaku Podi ( Curry leaves powder )


Ingredients :
Danyalu 1 cup
Senaga pappu ½ cup
Mina pappu ½ cup
Red chill 10 no.
Dry Curry leaves 3 cups ( karvepaku )
Jeelakara 1 spoon
Hingu ½ spoon
Tamarind lemon size ball.
Pasupu pinch
Salt to taste

Method :
Take a pan and fry the tamarind and keep it aside.
Add all the other ingredients leaving pasupu and salt and fry well for 10 minutes.
Grind all the fried ingredients adding salt and pasupu to a fine powder.
Serve with hot rice.

Idli Podi ( idli powder )


Ingredients :
Chutney pappu 2 cups
Chilli powder 1 tbsp
Garlic 10 pods
Pinch of pasupu
Salt to taste
Dry coconut scrape 2 cups
Jeelakara 2 tbsp

Method :
Fry all the ingredients for few minutes just to make it warm.
Then grind it in to fine powder.
This powder can be served with dosa and idli with little oil.

Menti Gunda ( Curry Powder )


Ingredients :
Mina pappu 1 cup
Senaga pappu ½ cup
Mentulu 2 table spoon
Red chilli 8 no.
Hingu ½ spoon

Method :
Fry all the ingredients in the pan without oil.
Grind to coarse powder in the mixie.
This powder can be used to sprinkle on the fried vegetables.