Peanut Spice powder

Peanuts are one of the worlds healthiest food.  Peanuts are rich in monounsaturated fats, the type of fat that is emphasized in the heart-healthy diet.

Every one of you might have something very favourite to eat from your childhood right ?, Mine was like any other south Indian who loves eating Rice in different varieties,  like  all kind of Kalanda Saadam ( mixed Rice varieties ) or loved to eat Rice mixed with chutni pudi, Molaga pudi, Gojjus and also Rice varieties like chitranna, pulav, mixed vegetable rice etc., My dad always teases me about this till date!.
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:

1. 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.
2. Take out them from the wok and  keep it aside to cool
3. 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.
4. With that fry the Red chillies too and fry Tamarind too in it.
5. Once all of them are nicely fried take them out and  allow it cool
6. 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.
7. Take one tumbler of peanuts in measure & mix with all the other ingredients and dry powder in the mixie coarsely.
8. put them in a jar & it may last up to 10-15 days.
9. 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.