Homemade Lebanese Baharat Spice Recipe / Baharat Spice Blend Recipe

I was in lebanese food mood, i wanted to share some lebanese recipes in my blog, since it is many of us favourite. When i was looking through my lebanese cookbook. I found few pantry staple for that cooking. As you know, i like to make everything from scratch. Because finding ingredients like baharat spice, tahini, pomegranate molasses can be really hard for some people. So no worries, i will be sharing all those recipes in this blog soon..

Vatha Kuzhambu Powder

Idli Powder

Horse Gram Powder

Sandwich Masala Powder

Garam Masala Powder

This spice blend is one of the basic in lebanese cooking. And it is so simple to make as well. You need just few ingredients which you have already in your cupboard. So make this spice handy, i will be using this in many more coming recipes.

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

Preparation Time : 10 mins
Cooking Time : 10 mins
Makes : ½ cup

Ingredients:

Cinnamon / Pattai - 5 cm piece
Dry Red Chilli - 8
Kashmiri Dry Red Chilli - 8
Cardamom / Yelakai - 10
Cloves / Krambu - 10
Whole Coriander Seeds / Malli - 1 tblspn

Nutmeg - 1 tblspn
Whole Black Pepper - 2 tblspn
Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 1 tblspn
Dry Ginger Powder / Chukku Podi - 1 tblspn

Method:

Take all the ingredients except ginger powder in a pan and roast on low heat till golden.

Add in ginger powder and saute for 20 more sec.

Now let them cool a bit, add it in a blender and powder it finely.

Spread on a paper and let them cool a bit.

Store in a air tight container.

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