Pudina podi / Mint leaves powder

Wash the pudina leaves and either dry roast in a kadai or keep in the microwave oven

to become crisp

Roast the urad dal,chana dal, dry red chillies,black peppercorns

Grind the dried pudina leaves and the roasted ingredients to powder.

The pudina (mint) podi is ready.

Ingredients :

Pudina (Mint) leaves - 1 bunch

Urad dal - 1 Tblsp

Chana dal - 1/4 Tblsp

Black pepper corns - 1 tsp

Dry red chillies - 7-8

Salt as required

Hing - a pinch

Method:

Wash the bunch of pudina leaves and either dry roast them in kadai till crispy or keep in a microwave bowl and microwave for about 6-7 minutes.

In between open the microwave oven and check the leaves or they may get burnt.

After the leaves become crisp keep them aside

Take a kadai put the dals,pepper corns and dry red chillies and roast them till golden colour

When the roasted items cool down, take a dry grinder and powder the roasted items along with the crispy leaves,hing and salt.

If you want you can grind the powder coarsely or fine powder.

After powdering the podi store it in an airtight bottle.

The pudina (mint) podi (powder) is ready tobe had with hot plain rice with dollops of ghee with roasted papad or it can be even used to add taste to some dry curry while cooking.

This pudina podi will remain for some days and it will not spoil easily. It has quite a long shelf life.

Verkadalai Podi /Roasted peanut powder

I am a podi freak and love all kinds of podis be it parupu podi, thenga podi,Karuvepallai podi,daniya podi, pudina podi etc----------- to name a few. I love to have these podis with ghee and hot rice which when eaten makes you feel you are in heaven. I can can roasted appalam along with podi sadam.

Whenever I visit somebody and they have laid the table with lots of dishes like a feast and by chance if I happen to see some podi in some corner I just grab it and start my meal with it no matter whoever thinks what. Have you seen such a crazy podi fan ever?

Now I shall give you all the recipe to make verkadalai podi /roasted peanut powder.

Ingredients:

Peanuts - 1 cup

Urad dal - 2 Tblsps

Dry red chillies - 7-8

Hing - 1/4 tsp

Salt as required

Oil

Method:

Roast the peanuts nicely till nice and light brown

Pour 1/2 tsp oil in a kadai and roast Urad dal and Dry red chilly and Hing till slight brown.

All the roasted items to cool and keep aside.

Now take a dry mixie and put the roasted items little by little and grind to a powder.

You can either make a fine powder or I chose to make a coarse powder so that while having it with rice it will be a little crunchy and tasty too.

Now pour the ground podi into a bowl and add the required amount of salt and mix nicely.

The peanut podi is ready to be had with hot plain rice with dollops of ghee and chutta appalam /roasted appalam.

Hope you all will enjoy and like this podi.

It can be stored in an airtight container and do not prolong it for too long a time.