Vegan Indian Cooking: 140 Simple and Healthy Vegan Recipes

add in the powders when you grind
them. If you heat the powders with the
whole spices, the powder will burn
before you get the whole spices roasted.
How do I know this? I made this very
mistake when conducting a spice-
grinding workshop with a dozen pairs of
eyes following my every move. It’s also
very helpful to first break up cinnamon
sticks, cassia or bay leaves, and whole
red chiles before processing them in a
grinder.