Curry leaves powder | Karivepaku Podi
Curry leaves powder or karivepaku podi is a aromatic and flavourful dry chutney powder made with fresh curry leaves and spices.
Servings 15 Tbsp , makes
Calories 15kcal
Ingredients
- 1 cup curry leaves firmly pressed
- 1 teaspoon oil
- 2 tablespoon chana dal
- 1 tablespoon urad dal
- 2 tablespoon dry coconut
- 1 teaspoon jeera /cumin seed
- 4-5 no's dry red chilies
- 4 no's garlic cloves
- 1 teaspoon tamarind pulp firmly pressed (small gooseberry size)
- ¼ teaspoon hing/asafoetida
- ½ teaspoon turmeric powder
- ½ teaspoon jaggery powder optional
- 1-1.5 teaspoon salt or as required
Instructions
- Wash curry leaves well with salt water, drain water completely and wipe it dry with a kitchen napkin.
- Dry roast curry leaves on a medium flame until it turns crisp and crushes with hands easily. It takes almost 6-8 minutes to become completely crisp.
- Transfer roasted curry leaves into a blender/ dry mixer jar.
- In the same pan, heat 1 teaspoon of oil, regulate flame to low and roast chana dal (Bengal gram) and urad dal (de skinned split black gram), until lentils turn light golden in colour.
- Now add in dry red chilies and roast for about 2-3 minutes.
- Add in dry coconut, cumin seeds, garlic cloves, tamarind, roast for a minute and turn off the stove.
- Transfer all the roasted ingredients to the same blender/ mixer jar. Let it cool down completely in a blender / jar itself. As keeping roasted spices in the pan, itself radiates heats and burn the spices when kept for cooling.
- Add hing, turmeric powder , salt and jaggery .
- Blend everything to a fine powder . Store in air tight dry glass jar, stays fresh upto 1 month.
- Serve it with rasam rice, sambar rice, make podi idli , season and mix with rice or poha . I have tried everything and it tastes equally good with all the mentioned combinations.
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Nutrition
Calories: 15kcal