Method
- Dry roast each of the lentils seperately until it turns reddish, keep aside seperately.
- Dry roast the curry leaves (yes even the dried ones) until the it turns a little brownish and you can hear them make a crackling type of sound when they are stirred and keep aside
- Dry roast the red chillies until they turn color and keep aside.
- Cool all the ingredients thoroughly before proceeding to powder them
- Powder the split chick pea until slightly coarse, then add split black gram lentil to it and continue to powder until they get the bread crumb type look, keep aside.
- Powder they curry leaves into a fine powder and keep aside.
- Powder the dry red chillies with a pinch of salt if required until reasonably fine and keep aside.
- Now mix all these powdered ingredients together in a blender, add salt and asafoetida and powder until fine.
- Store in an airtight container and use as required to spice up your rice, yogurt or curries
Suggested Variation
Dry roast a small piece of tamarind and powder and add to the spiced powder and mix well.
Alternatively add about 1/4 tsp of amchur powder (dry mango powder)( or according to taste) to the final powder and mix thoroughly, this imparts a slight tartness to the final powder
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