Karuveppalai Podi

Hi all ,

Thanks a lot friends for wishing us for our blog second anniversary .. and as my system was not working fine for the past one month I was not able to post anything in this blog ...Hope hereafter I will be posting the recipes regularly ...Thanks for all your support and encouragement ..now to the Karuveppalai podi / curry leaves powder recipe ....

Ingredients needed :

• Curry leaves - 2 cups
• Urid dhal
• Channa dhal
• Dhaniya
• Tamarind - little
• Hing powder
• Dried red chillies
• Oil
• Salt

Method : 

Remove the curry leaves from the stem, clean it and keep it aside. Heat a kadai , add 1tsp. of oil and add urid dhal+ channa dhal and fry it till it turns golden colour and keep it aside ... now fry the dhaniya seeds + dried red chillies + tamarind and transfer it to a plate and allow it to cool ...now fry the curry leaves by adding 1tsp. oil till done...in a mixer grinder add all the roasted items and grind it coaresly by adding hing powder + salt ...then add the curry leaves also and dry grind altogether into fine powder ...
 
Curry leaves powder is ready ...you can store it in a airtight container and use it whenever needed...Take 2tsp. of curry leaves powder and mix it with hot rice and a spoon of gingely oil (preferred ) or ghee and have it hot ...