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Friday, October 2, 2009

Toor dhal Powder

Ingredients

Red chillies – 1 cup

Toor gram dhal – 2 cups

Bengal gram dhal (Chana) – ½ cup

Horse gram dhal – ½ cup

Coriander seeds – 2 teaspoon

Asafoetida – to taste

Rock salt – to taste

Method

a) Fry dry red chilli with little oil.

b) Fry all other items without oil seperately.

c) Fine grind all items.

Dry Coconut Powder

Ingredients

Bengal gram dhal – 1 cup

Urad dhal – 1 cup

Red chillies – ½ cup

Asafoetida – 1 teaspoon

Rock salt – 1 tablespoon


Method

a) Fry dry red chilli with little oil.

b) Fry all other items without oil seperately.

c) Fine grind all items.

Curry Leaves Powder

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Ingredients

Curry Leaves – 4 cups

Urad dhal – 1 cup

Red chillies – ½ cup

Asafoetida – 1 teaspoon

Rock salt – 1 tablespoon


Method

a) Fry dry red chilli with little oil.

b) Fry all other items without oil seperately.

c) Fine grind all items.

Instant Powder – with rice

Ingredients

Bengal gram dhal – 1 cup

Coriander seeds – 1 cup

Red chillies – 2 cups

Curry leaves – ¼ cup

Rock salt – 1 tablespoon


Method

a) Fry dry red chilli with little oil.

b) Fry all other items without oil separately.

c) Fine grind all items.

Chutney Powder

Ingredients

Chana dhal – 1 cup

Urad dhal – 1 cup

Dry Red chilli – 2 cups

White Sesame seeds – 1 cup

Curry leaves – 1 cup

Rock Salt – 1 tablespoon / Powder salt – 1 tablespoon

Method

a) Fry dry red chilli with little oil.

b) Fry all other items except sesame without oil seperately.

c) Fry sesame seeds without oil in the end.

d) Coarse grind (like rava) all items except sesame first; later add sesame to the mixture and grind again.

[If sesame oil is added early, it leaves oil and creates lumps in the powder!]

Gojju powder

Ingredients

Chana dhal – 1 cup

Urad dhal – 1 cup

Dry Red chilli -2 cups

Fenugreek seeds – ¼ cup

Coriander seeds – 1 teaspoon

Mustard – 1 teaspoon

Method

a) Fry red chilli with oil.

b) All other items to be fried separately without oil.

c) Coarse grind (like rava)the items together. Powder should turn out in golden color.

All purpose seasoning powder

Ingredients

Red chilli – 500g

Coriander seeds – 250g

Toor dhal – 100g

Chana dhal – 100g

Urad dhal – 50g

Mustard – 50g

Black pepper corns – 50g

Jeera – 50g

Fenugreek seeds – 50g

Method

Sun dry above items together and machine powder this. Do not fry.