The best one I remember as a child is whenever my mum made Fresh Rasam Powder Daddy used to mix it with Rice and oil and give us all a nice big ball of it and we all loved it so much!! Three of us used to sit in front of Dad taking Kai thuthu ( Rice balls in our palms). My mouth is watering when I am thinking about it, and making me nostalgic for those bygone days, we always had a dinner together however late my dad came from his office!!. I do miss all of that now.
After I got married in my parents-in-law’s house (as they are from Tamilnadu), they used to eat a lot of these Rice mix and eat dishes, my mom-in-law used to prepare paruppu podi most of the times, then I started learning lot of other pudis which was not only yummy but good for health!!
well, I am going to start with peanut powder from shivu’s mum, who is my friend from Bangalore. So, this actually is is a Kannadiga recipe. I have not done so well as she does, when you first eat something it is always the best I think, and it always stays in embedded in your mind I think I like her powder than mine. Don’t you feel so? even though everybody is liking it and am happy about it and now I have to make it again as it is getting over. I still love hers!!
This is her recipe and here is the Recipe…
Ingredients:
1 and 1/2 Cup split roasted skin peeled Groundnuts (Peanuts)
10-12 pods of garlic
1/4 bunch or 6-7 sprigs of fresh coriander leaves
5-5 Red chillies (guntur- badgi)
1 tbsp or salt as desired
1 tsp oil
1/4 cup dry copra or dessicated coconut
3-4 flakes or small gooseberry sized tamarind
1 sprig curry leaves (optional)
METHOD:
- First of all, take a pan or wok dry roast Ground nuts until nice aroma starts coming out of them or when the skin starts peeling off.
- Take out them from the wok and keep it aside to cool
- ext in the same pan or wok take a tsp of oil, heat then add garlic pods & fry them until they start changing colour to it add the coriander leaves and fry them till they look like withering away.
- With that fry the Red chillies too and fry Tamarind too in it.
- Once all of them are nicely fried take them out and allow it cool
- Meanwhile, take the roasted peanuts and remove the husk from them and remove the small node like portion from the top of the nuts when you split open them.
- Take one tumbler of peanuts in measure & mix with all the other ingredients and dry powder in the mixie coarsely.
- put them in a jar & it may last up to 10-15 days.
- It is now ready to be served with plain rice and a dollop of ghee in it!
Not only people of Tamil Nadu but people from Andhra also have Rice mix and eat podis in their first course of their meal.
Peanut Spice powder
Ingredients
- 1 and 1/2 Cup split roasted skin peeled Groundnuts Peanuts
- 10-12 pods of garlic
- 1/4 bunch or 6-7 sprigs of fresh coriander leaves
- 5-5 Red chillies guntur- badgi
- 1 tbsp or salt as desired
- 1 tsp oil
- 1/4 cup dry copra or dessicated coconut
- 3-4 flakes or small gooseberry sized tamarind
- 1 sprig curry leaves optional
Instructions
- First of all take a pan or wok dry roast Ground nuts until nice aroma starts coming out of them or when the skin starts peeling off.
- Take out them from the wok and keep it aside to cool
- Next in the same pan or wok take a tsp of oil, heat then add the garlic pods & fry them until they start changing colour to it add the coriander leaves and fry them till they look like withering away.
- With that fry the Red chillies too and fry Tamarind too in it.
- Once all of them are nicely fried take them out and allow it cool
- Meanwhile take the roasted peanuts and remove the husk from them and remove the small node like portion from the top of the nuts when you split open them.
- Take one tumbler of peanuts in measure & mix with all the other ingredients and dry powder in the mixie coarsely.
- put them in a jar & it may last up to 10-15 days.
- It is now ready to be served with plain rice and a dollop of ghee in it!
we too make somany podi varieties,that we can mix with rice and eat,this one is sure new to me:) Sounds good,will try sometime:)