Step by step instruction of How to make Kandi Podi:
Published:By Sailaja Angara
This is a mixed powder of four varieties of pulses and red chilies. It's not seasonal like Olympics. It is fondly called gunpowder.This is a main course item, and usually a couple of tea spoons go very well with a cup of rice. It also can be a side dish for dosa. This powder can be stored for months also. Of course, its preparation takes a little longer. Preparation Time:
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Recipe Category: Side Dish
Recipe Cuisine: Andhra
Yield: 1 Kilogram (approximately)
Ingredients:
- 1 Cup Red gram (toor dal)
- 1 Cup Green gram (moong dal)
- 1 Cup Bengal gram (chana dal)
- 1 Cup Black gram (urad dal)
- 1 Cup Red chilies (lal mirch)
- 1/2 teaspoon Cumin seeds (jeera)
- 1 teaspoon Asafoetida (hing)
- Salt-to taste
Procedure:
- Heat kadai, roast all the pulses separately.
- Start with red gram, green gram, bengal gram and lastly black gram.
- While roasting the pulses follow the order which I have mentioned as the heat required for them are varies from one to other.
- Roast red chilies separately, while roasting them add a little salt. So that the pungent aroma won't irritate us.
- Add cumin seeds and asafoetida to the pulses.
- Take small portions of the all the pulses and grind them to make a coarse powder.
- Sieve the ground powders. Leave the amorphous portion and re-grind the coarse stuff left in the sieve.
- Repeat the action until everything became fine.
- This is the stage where you need to add fine salt.
- Usually, for this quantity of powder, add half a cup of salt. Then taste it to test if the salt is sufficient.
- Serve kandi podi with hot piping rice, dosa or idli.
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