Curry leaves powder recipe
Curry leaves powder recipe - karuvepillai podi is a south Indian dry powder for rice, very very healthy for health, a must in the kitchen. With step by step pictures and full video.
Servings: 1 cup
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.