Other Podi Varieties

Common Process:

In podi recipes...

1.    All the ingredients are roasted separately in the pan with little oil or no oil.

2.    Vary red chilli based on your hotness quotient.

3.    Then add salt and grind it in the mixi to get your podi

thats it...

1.    Idly mulagai podi

1.     Urad dal – 1 cup

2.     Channa dal – ½ cup

3.     Moong dal – 2 tblsp

4.     Ground nuts – 2 handful

5.     Horse gram – 2 tbsp

6.     Sesame seeds – ½ cup

7.     Tamarind – small gooseberry size

8.     Jaggery – 1 tblsp

9.     Hing

10.  Red chilli – 50

2.    Kothamali vara podi (Danya podi) – can be used in sundal and dry curry

1.     Danya – 1 cup

2.     Channa dal – ¾ cup

3.     Red chilli – 80

3.    Sambhar podi (sun dry all ingredients and give it to machine grinding)

1.    Red chilli – ½ kg

2.    Danya – ½ kg

3.    Sambar manjal(turmeric) – 100 gms

4.    Tur dal – 1 cup

5.    Channa dal – 1 cup

6.    Methi seeds – 100 gms

7.    Pepper – 100 gms

8.    Cumin/jeera – 100 gms

9.    Kashmir chilli (for red colour) – 200gms

4.    Tea masala

1.     Cardamom – 1 tsp

2.     Cloves – ½ tsp

3.     Cinnamon- 1 inch

4.     Fennel seeds- ¼ tso

5.     Pepper - ¼ tsp

6.     Nutmeg – ½ tsp

7.     Star anise – 2 petals

5.    Garam Masala powder

1.     Danya – ¼ cup

2.     Cardamom – 2 tblsp

3.     Pepper – 2 tblsp

4.     Cloves – 2 tblsp

5.     Fennel seeds – 1 tblsp

6.     Star anise – 3

7.     Cinnamon 4 (1 inch) pieces

8.     Nutmeg – ¼ tsp

9.     Bayleaves 2