Thursday, April 11, 2013

Kandi Podi / Toordal Powder


Ingredients

10-15 Red chillies
1 cup toor dhal(dry)
1/2 cup chana dal or 1 cup Dahlia (fried chana dal)
3-4 garlic cloves
Few curry leaves
pinch of Hing

Method:
  1. Add red chilli whole (depending upon your taste buds)
  2. Add 1 cup of Dry toor dal
  3. Add few cumin seeds, dry roast them till the toor dal is slight reddish in color
  4. Add either 1/2 cup of channa dhal OR Add 1 cup of Dhalia
  5. Add 3-4 cloves of Garlic
  6. Add curry Leaves (optional)
  7. Make sure that all the ingredients are nicely cooked in a very slow flame, to ensure, just fold the red chili and it should break into pieces in no time. If all the ingredients are cooked good they can be powdered easily.
  8. Switch off the flame and let it cool for 10 mins
  9. Grind them into a fine powder.

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