Karuveppilai podi- Curry leaves powder recipe is a south Indian dry powder for rice, healthy, and must try. With step by step pictures and full video.
This can be handy if you have it in stock for lunch. Either you can have it as a course or just this for lunch along with curd rice.
Check out my curry leaves rice and paruppu podi in this website.
I am making curry leaves powder for the first time in my life. Thanks to maami! I make only kuzhambu and sometimes chutney/ thogayal (recipe soon). This time I wanted to try podi for sure.
Also maami was always telling me since she came here, that we can make karuvepillai podi. So I asked her how to make and made it. We all loved it. Moreover one should consume curry leaves for it's enormous health benefits.
Ingedients
Here are the simple ingredients needed to make karuveppilai podi.
- Curry leaves - Use fresh curry leaves without any moisture.
- Urad dal - I love urad dal alone in this podi for nice flavour and keep it simple. Because of urad dal's flavour, the strong flavour of curry leaves gets balanced and complimented.
- Red chillies - For spice
- Asafoetida - Gives flavour.
Health benefits
I have heard from my mom that its super good remedy for hair fall. And I read an interesting and useful fact about this karuvepillai in a book. They had said 'Karuveppilai = Karu + Veppilai'.
These leaves acts like a vepillai (neem) to our uterus and if we take these leaves every day, we can get rid of problems like irregular periods and so on. I used to drink buttermilk with some curry leaves ground mixed to it and got benefitted myself. It's too good for us ladies especially.
It is also good for treating worms that often happens due to eating outside and good for stomach upset because of the same.
Apart from this, its also good for cholesterol, eye sight, digestion, anemia, blood circulation etc.
Top tip
- Use fresh curry leaves or at least fairly fresh ones.. If you use the about to spoil ones, the flavor wont be good. It actually loses it's color when you try to roast.
- Microwave works best like magic to crisp the curry leaves. But you can also do over stove top as I have did in this recipe. So if you want to fry over stove top, add after urad dal and roast it in the heat itself to make it crisp.
- The tip for perfect green curry leaves powder is to roast it perfectly without changing color. Also grind the curry leaves first and urad dal last for perfect texture.
Stepwise photos
1. I tried microwaving for making the curry leaves crisp for powdering it easily. And it did a great job in just 3 minutes!
2. Just spread the cleaned leaves in the microwave oven's plate. (it should not be watery, so dry in a newspaper after washing the leaves). Microwave in high for 2-3 minutes.
3. Microwave one minute per one time. Just spread the leaves with hand each time to ensure evenness. Give 2 minutes standing time to feel the crispness.
4. Fry urad dal, red chillies and coconut until golden brown in oil. Cool down and first grind red chillies, coconut, asafoetida, salt and curry leaves together to a fine powder.
5. Then lastly add Urad dal and grind to a coarse powder.
Transfer to an airtight container and if you want to keep it for a month can keep refrigerated.
Mix karuveppilai podi with sesame oil and hot steamed rice. It goes well with Idli / Dosa too!
Recipe card
Curry leaves powder recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup Curry leaves tightly packed
- ½ cup Urad dal/ Ulutham paruppu
- 10 Red chillies
- 3 tablespoon Coconut grated
- ¼ teaspoon Asafoetida
- 2 teaspoon Oil
- Salt
Instructions
Roasting curry leaves
- I tried microwaving for making the curry leaves crisp for powdering it easily. And it did a great job in just 3 minutes!
- Just spread the cleaned leaves in the microwave oven's plate.(its should not be watery, so dry in a newspaper after washing the leaves).
- Microwave in high for 2-3 minutes. Microwave one minute per one time.
- Just stir the leaves with hand each time to ensure evenness. Give 2 minutes standing time to feel the crispness.
- Heat a kadai. Add oil, roast urad dal, red chillies and coconut until golden brown in order.
- Cool down and first grind red chillies, coconut, asafoetida, salt and curry leaves together to a fine powder.
- Then lastly add Urad dal and grind to a coarse powder.
Video
Notes
- You can fry curry leaves in tawa too instead of microwave oven. Refer video.
- Just heat a pan and add the curry leaves, give stirs now and then and switch off the stove once nice aroma rises. Leave it as such in tawa for 2 minutes to make it crisp. Then proceed.
- Coconut and asafoetida adds a nice flavor to the podi.
- This makes an ideal lunch box rice too. Just temper with mustard, urad dal and cashews and add it to the rice and mix the powder along with sesame oil.
Kavitha Bhargav says
liked the way you captured the bottle 🙂
lata raja says
True that karuveppilai has immense nutrition and sadly we just pick them out and discard while eating. Home style podis are always extra flavoursome and very healthy!
Recipe world says
Nice and healthy podi dear..my mom says that its good for digestion related problems also! Even I am using it regularly, but my version of podi is bit different..
Cheers!
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♥LOVE2COOK MALAYSIA♥ says
Owh I love the shots!
Prathibha says
I have a similar one in my drafts...ur clicks look gorgeous raji...nice n yummy podi
sowmya's creative saga says
yes..I got some karavepellai podi from my aunt in India as post partum food...wanted to blog about it..loved your method
Akila says
I too do the same way
Paaka Shaale says
This is one spice mix that I jsut can't do without raji. You captured this so well..
Priya says
One of my fav podi, never failed to make them when i get super fresh curry leaves here.
Supriya's Rasoi says
Rajeshwari thanks for such a healthy recipe. dear I am a big fan of your recipes today I have uploaded your green chutney recipe please click the link.
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Chitra says
I too make this in aunty's style..I add pepper corns too..
Sangeetha Nambi says
Loved ur podi and ur clicks as well......
Shama Nagarajan says
delicious dear
Spice up the Curry says
very flavorful powder
Ms.Chitchat says
First,let me appreciate the click and now the karuvepillai podi recipe. Just awesome.
Shanavi says
Loved the last click, as usual ur recipe rocks n love ur jar as well
Prathima Rao says
Flavorful podi!!!!
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Archana says
Love it and the pics are awesome.
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Srimathi says
Beautiful documentation.
M D says
Raksha, your photography is splendid. Beautiful curry leaves podi.
Sanoli Ghosh says
Excellent documentation.........very nice clicks.
Divya Kudua says
Yum,I love to eat spoonfuls of Karuvelppilai podi,tastes even better with rice and ghee:)
Valarmathi Sanjeev says
one of my fav...healthy and flavourful podi.
Umamaheswari says
Hi raji..you have become a dependable blog for me these days... tried a lot of your recipes and got good review for that! I've a very basic question, what kind of basmati brand can i get in india...any suggestions??
Kadhyaa says
raks one of my personal favourite 🙂
Anu says
Nice one and aromatic powder
Anonymous says
Excellent!
Hema says
Very flavorful podi..
RAKS KITCHEN says
Uma, you can get India gate or lalquila basmati rice , they are good...
Uma says
mmm. curry leaves podi. looks so aromatic and tempting. I too have blogged a recipe for this. Isn't it sooooo yummy with rice? As always, your pictures tempt to try them at once. Nice dish Raji!
Anonymous says
Loved the jar!
nirupamasundar says
I fry some toor dall too when making karuveppilai podi. also some pepper and jeera. no coconut, i use karuveppilai podi in rasam,arisiupma and pongal,. They taste divine.
Soumya says
Thanks for Podi....Raks!! Hope you received my email with the list of recipes ...Would love to try some different types of soups....
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Nagashree says
My favorite among the spice powders. I add black pepper as I like the flavor it imparts.
Priyas Feast says
Delightful podi with wonderful note.
Hillary Miller says
Hope I am not late to say that you really have a talent for still photography!
How long we can keep the curry powder?
RAKS KITCHEN says
Thanks Hillary! Its stays good in shelf for 2 weeks
Veena Theagarajan says
Raks, Very nice click... My favourite too.. keep rocking
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Nithya Jagannathan says
Yummy Curry leaves podi.. I prepared this today and gave it to my MIL. Tastes very good.. I jus started visiting ur site and now im a big fan of urs 🙂 Raks really Rockzzz.... - Nithya
chithra kumar says
tried your recipe. perfect combination of flavors. being the graphic designer, i loved the way you showed your process through photos. you nailed it. thanks
chithra kumar says
u nalied the recipe. flavors are equally balanced. love it. thanks
Niv says
lovely recipes. have tried many just tried this one, but put a bit too much hing.how do I solve that?
Pradeep Varadan says
Excellent photography
sabari says
good recipe....send more such recipes to [email protected]
Raks anand says
Just have to make another batch without hing and mix. Sorry for my late response
Raks anand says
Thank you
Raks anand says
Thanks a lot
Unknown says
Lovely colour... one query. Can we add coconut powder or dry coconut shavings
Raks Kitchen says
Sure
SJR says
Tried this recipe, Everyone just loved it, Thanks
Raks Anand says
Thank you 🙂
Veni Dass says
I have become addicted to your recipes.
They are very healthy. Thanks for your tips.
Raks Anand says
Thank you 🙂