Curry Leaves Powder Recipe – Karuveppilai Podi Recipe

I wanted to share this podi here for a long time. Even though this is a staple in our house, i somehow missed to share it here. Finally i made quite a few powders yesterday specially for blog. Will share all those soon.

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This can be served over some rice and a drizzle of ghee. You can have it with idli or dosa too.

Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..

Preparation Time : 5 mins
Cooking Time : 15 mins
Makes: 1 cup


Ingredients:

Curry leaves – 1 cup packed tightly
Toor Dal / Tuvaram Paruppu – 2 tblspn
Roasted Gram Dal / Pori Kadalai – 2 tblspn
Urad dal / Ulundu Paruppu – 2 tblspn
Cumin Seeds – 1 tsp
Black Pepper – 1 tsp
Dry Red Chilli – 2 to 3
Salt to taste

Method:

Take curry leaves in a dry pan and keep frying them on low heat till it gets dry. Set aside.

In the same pan add the remaining ingredients and fry till golden.

Take it in a plate and let it cool down.

Take it in a blender along with curry leaves and salt. Powder finely.

Store it in a air tight container for months.

You can serve with rice drizzled with some ghee or have with idli or dosa.


Pictorial:

Take all your ingredients

wash and pat dry curry leaves

take it in a dry pan

roast till crispy

now take your other ingredients

take it in a pan

roast till golden

now it is done

take it in a plate and cool it down

now take this in a blender

add salt

powder finely

Store it in a air tight container