Spicy Podi's adding spice to our health and life.!

Hello Buddies,

Good day to all! Today, I bring for you the different spice podi's that fill my kitchen and our daily breakfast and meals. I use some as herbal medicine for cold and throat irritation.



Thanks to Smitha of Kadumanga for the event 'Colours Of Taste - Powders: Podi's as an accompaniment', to remind and bring for you my tiny kitchen treasures.

I'm sending all the below entries to the event.



1. Manja paal podi(Turmeric jeera Podi):



This is my Mother-in-law's herbal medicine for cold & cough. This is a best cure for early stage of cold & cough.

Ingredients:

1. Dried Turmeric Stick(Virali manjal) - 3,
2. Cumin seeds(Jeeragam) - 3 tsp,
3. Black peppercorns - 4 tsp,
4. Garlic Pods - 2,
5. Palm sugar(Karupatti) - 2 tsp.

How to make this:

1. Grind the turmeric stick in a blender and powder it in to a fine powder and store seperately.
2. Dry roast the cumin seeds, pepper & garlic and grind it and store seperately.

Directions of Use:

In a cup of medium heat milk, add a spoon of turmeric powder and a spoon of cumin-pepper powder, little Karupatti(palm sugar) and mix well. Drink a cup before sleep at night for 3 days, cold will disappear...!

2. Idli sambar podi:



This is my Grandma's recipe. She adds this podi for sambar made for idly.

Ingredients:

1. Chana dal - 5 tsp,
2. Coriander seeds - 1/4 cup,
3. Red dry chillies - 8,
4. Peppercorns - 3 tsp,
5. Asefeotida Powder - 5 tsp,
6. Cumin seeds - 3 tsp,
7. Methi/Fenugreek seeds - 2 tsp,
8. Curry leaves - 2 strings,
9. Salt - 3 tsp,
10. Oil - 2 tsp.

How to make this?

1. Heat oil in a kadai, roast all the above ingredients except salt and cool.
2. Grind, Powder it in a blender with salt and store in an air-tight container.

Add it in usual sambar too and relish the spiciness you get..!!:)

3. Paruppu Podi (Dhal podi):


Ingredients:

1. Tuvar dal - 1/2 cup,
2. Bengal gram skinned(Pottu kadalai) - 1/4 cup,
3. Red chilly - 2,
4. Peppercorns - 1 tsp,
5. Garlic pods - 2,
6. Curry leaves - 2 strings,
7. Salt - 3 tsp,
8. Ghee - 2 tsp.

How to make this?

Heat ghee in kadai and roast the ingredients 1-6. Cool and grind it with salt in to a fine powder. Store in an air-tight container.

Tastes great with Steaming rice and ghee..!

4. Idli Dosa Podi:



Ingredients:
1. Urad dal - 1 cup,
2. Channa dal - 1/4 cup,
3. Coriander seeds - 2 tsp,
4. Cumin seeds - 5 tsp,
5. Black peppercorns - 4 tsp,
6. Red dry chilly - 8,
7. Asefeotida - 6 tsp,
8. Salt - 4 tsp (as per taste),
9. Curry leaves - 3 strings,
10. Oil - 1/2 tsp.

How to make this?

1. Roast the urad dal, channa dal, cumin, coriander seeds, peppercorns, red dry chilly, curry leaves each in oil and let it to cool.
2. In a blender, put the roasted items, asefeotida, salt and grind in to a fine powder.
3. Store in a air-tight container and relish.

Hope you all enjoyed my podi's. Enjoy!!:)