Paruppu Podi / Kandi Podi / Toor Dal Powder

Paruppu podi is very often used with rice and ghee at every south Indian household especially in andhra cuisine. It is also one of the podi which is usually available at our home. My MIL usually prepares it in large quantity and grind it in mill near our home. This time, I have prepared it in a small quantity only for me and my husband. Kandipappu podi or any kind of dal podi is very well known with vegetarian andhra meal. It is said to be that an andhra meal never completes without dal and pulusu. Sometimes, this dal is replaced by a

ready to use dal powder with a dollop of ghee due to time starving (It is my guess). Thus, andhra cuisine has many podi varieties and now also you can find andhra thali is served with some dal powder.

Basic Information: Preparation Time: 30 minutes Makes: 1 and 1/2 cup

Ingredients: Toor Dal - 1 cup Cumin seeds - 1 tablespoon Black pepper - 1 tablespoon Dry red chilli - 6 nos / adjust according to your spice level Curry leaves - 2 strings Asafoetida - a big pinch Garlic - 1 clove (optional) Salt - to taste Oil - 2 teaspoons

Method: 1) Take a wide pan and dry roast toor dal till it releases nice aroma and turns slight brown colour.

2) Transfer to a dry plate and keep aside. 3) In the same pan, add oil. when it is hot, add cumin seeds, blackpepper seeds, dry red chillies and curry leaves. Roast till they are crisp.

4) Allow all the roasted ingredients to cool completely.

5) In a mixer/food processor/coffee grinder, put all the cooled ingredients with salt and asafoetida. Make a powder.

6) Towards the end of the grinding, add garlic(if using) and finsh the grinding. The texture should be fine coarse powder.

7) Store it in a air tight container and serve with hot steamed rice and ghee.

Dal Powder Recipe Ingredients

Use the following ingredients to prepare or make Dal Powder recipe at home.

Roasted channa dal(putnaal papu) - 1 cup groundnuts - 1/4 cup sesame seeds(nuvvulu) - 1 table spoon dry coconut (kopra) - 1 table spoon(grated) red chillies - 10 garlic pods - 3 - 4 salt oil - 1 table spoon

Dal Powder Recipe Making Procedure

Heat oil in a kadai . Add the chillies and fry for a minute then add the Roasted channa dal and groundnuts and fry for till they become light red in colour. u can actually smell the nice aroma when roasting. Add the sesame seeds and the dry coconut and fry for another minute. turn off the fire as the dry cocnut tends to become charred very soon . allow to cool. add the garlic pods and salt and blend them well into a powder . Tastes very good with rice and ghee and is an all time favourite with chidren. also roasted channa dal is full of proteins so is very healthy too

Kandi Podi / Gun Powder / Andhra Style Paruppu Podi

This is my dad's favorite accompaniment to anything. So much so that each time I visited home from Hyderabad, he would request for this and only this. I try it when we go to Andhra thali restaurants but recently I started craving them and decided to make some.

Andhra Paruppu Podi What I Used (Recipe from here) Toor dal / Tuvaram paruppu /Split gram - 1 cup Moong dal /Paasi paruppu / Cherupayar Parippu - 1/2 cup Chana dal / Kadala paruppu / Bengal gram - 1/2 cup Red chilli powder - 2 tbsp Black pepper powder - 2 tsp Hing / Asafoetida / Perungayam - 1/2 tsp Jeera / Jeerakam - 1 tbsp Salt - to taste

How I Made It: 1. Dry fry all the dals separately until they turn golden brown. Mix well. 2. Add the jeera and hing to the dal mixture when its still hot and keep aside to cool. 3. Once cool, grind to a course/fine powder depending on preference. 4. Add red chilli powder, pepper and salt to the ground mixture and store in an airtight jar. Serving suggestions: - With steamed white rice and hot ghee. - Mix with some curd or oil and serve with dosa. - Some variations include adding dry fried curry leaves to the powder. I am sure that's yummy as well, I just didn't have enough curry leaves in hand.

Dal Powder & Cabbage Fry (With Dal Powder)

Dal Powder: Prep: 3mts Cuisine: Andhra Ingredients: 1 cup chutney dal(putnala pappu) 1/2 cup coriander seeds (dhania) 3 dry red chillies 1 tsp salt Method: 1. Take all the above ingredients into a blender, make a smooth powder. 2. Store in a air tight container and use for any vegetable fry.

Cabbage Fry:
Prep : 10mts Cooking time: 15mts Cuisine : Andhra

Ingredients: 1 shredded medium size cabbage 3 tbsp oil 1 tsp jeera 1 tsp mustards few curry leaves 4 green chillies (slit them length wise) 1 tsp ginger juliens 1 tsp garlic juliens 1 chopped big onion a pinch of turmeric powder 2 tbsp dal powder (above) salt as per taste Fresh shredded coconut for garnish (optional) Method: 1. Heat oil, add jeera and mustards, let them pop, add ginger and garlic juliens, saute for few seconds. 2. Add curry leaves, green chillies and chopped onions, fry till transparent. 3. Add turmeric powder, mix, add shredded cabbage, mix, covered, stirring, cook for 5 minutes.

4. Add above dal powder and salt, mix, covered, cook for more 5 minutes. Adjust salt and turn off the heat. Garnish with fresh shredded coconut.

Note: Be careful about adding salt in the curry, because salt is already added in dal powder.