Mangalore Rasam Powder

 

Ingredients:
Red chilies (1 cup, broken into small pieces and tightly packed)
cumin seeds (1 tsp)
Hing powder (1 tsp)
Oil (1 tbsp)
Fenugreek or methi seeds (1/2tsp)
Gram dal (2tbsp)
Dry coriander seeds (1 big tbsp)
Curry leaves (3 springs)

Method of preparation:

• Take the chilies; break them up with the stalks into small pieces. It make easy to powder them. Take a kadai, place it over heat. Heat the oil in it and then fry the hing and fenugreek in it on slow heat until they turn light brown in color.
• Now add gram dal, cumin seeds, red chilies, coriander seeds and curry leaves and fry them for about 5 minutes on low heat. When all these get roasted then there arises a lovely aroma. Now take off the kadai from the heat and keep it to cool.
• Put this roasted masala mixture in the mixie and then powered it finely. Put this powdered masala in a bottle to store it. This powder can be used for 2 to 3 months.

Padmashree Raikar

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