Paruppu podi
I'm a big paruppu podi lover. To my mom's irritation, I'd eat paruppu podi combined with grain, even if she'd made sambar, rasam and all sorts of accompaniments. I do it properly even if I'm the prepare. My most desired powder comes from Ambika appalam, the shop of Keralites. There are many branches throughout Tamil Nadu as well as their appalams sell even just in the Indian stores in US. I really like their pappadam, jackfruit chips, sweet plantain chips and kai murukku. Above anything else, comes the standard paruppu podi. I recieve 2 Kg price of it everytime I return from India.
What's so excellent about this? I'm not sure- might be it's the color, might be simply because they use dalia or puffed chana because the base or may be the the truth that they give a tadka of mustard seeds and curry leaves towards the powder. I've attempted making my very own batch from it several occasions. Irrrve never arrived at that perfection.
However this time I acquired it! The key was adding just a little toasted coconut. Kerala and coconut aren't difficult to affiliate, right?
1 cup Dalia
6-8 red chilies (for that color I love to use Karnataka's Bedegi chiles )
3 T to at least oneOr4 cup of coconut powder
Toast red chilies and dalia on the dry skillet until chilies crisp up and dalia will get aromatic. Add some coconut and fry until toasted slightly. If you are using normal chilies, you won't have an orangey hue but much more of an ordinary, buff color.
Powder very fine. Heat just a little canola oil (a drop approximately). Stop by 1 teaspoon mustard along with handful of sprigs of curry leaves. Once they splutter, mix using the powder. Trust me, they create an enormous amount of difference and provide an excellent texture and bite when combined with grain. The coconut adds complexity however, you cannot taste it.
Bedegi chilies would be the wrinkled, lengthy chilies which you may get in Indian supermarkets in US. I love to rely on them in dishes in which a great color is required. Besides, they aren't as spicy (but more fruity) because the normal ones.