Microsoft Word - Recipes

Ingredients:

Red chillies - 1 cup (broken into small pieces

and tightly

packed).

Dry coriander seeds - 1 cup

Gram dhal - 2 tablespoons

Oil - 1 tablespoon

Cumin seeds - 1 teaspoon

Fenugreek - 1/2 teaspoon (methi seeds)

Hing - a pea size lump or 1 teaspoon hing

powder.

Curry leaves - 3 sprays.

Method:

Break up the chillies along with the stalks into

smaller pieces

(to enable easier powdering). Heat oil in a kadai

and fry on a

slow fire, the hing and the fenugreek seeds till

light brown in

colour. Add coriander seeds, red chillies, cumin

seeds, gram dhal

and curry leaves and fry for about five minutes on a

slow flame

till it is well roasted and you get a lovely aroma.

Remove from

flame and allow to cool. Powder fine and bottle it.

This powder