Coconut Powder

Ingredients
Red chillies 6-8
Coconut grated 2 cups
Mustard 1/4 t.spoon
Urad dhall 1/4 cup
Channa dhall 1/4 cup
Hing a small pinch
Tamarind paste 1/2 t.spoon
Cooking oil 2 t.spoon
Salt 3/4 t.spoon


Method
Dry roast grated coconut with 1 t.spoon of oil, until it turns brown.
Fry mustard, red chillies, urad dhall, channa dhall, and hing
with 1 t.spoon of oil until the flavor comes oil.
Dry grind everything coarsely.

Parupu Powder

Ingredients
Red chillies 2
Thuvar dhall 1.5 cups
Channa dhall 1/2 cup
Pepper 2 t.spoons
Cumin seeds 1/2 t.spoon
Coriander seeds 1 t.spoons
Hing 1/4 t.spoon
Salt 1 t.spoon


Method
Dry roast every ingredient separately except hing and salt
without oil until the flavor comes out.
Grind the above with hing and salt into a nice powder.

Idli Mulagaipodi Method 2

Ingredients
Channa dhall 1 cup
Urad dhall 1/2 cup
Red chillies 20
Sesame seeds 1/4 cup
Hing 1.5 t.spoon
Jaggery 1/2 t.spoon
Tamarind a small piece
Salt 2 t.spoons
Cooking oil 2.t spoons


Method
Roast sesame seeds separately until the flavor comes out and keep it aside.
Fry urad dhall, channa dhall and red chillies in little oil, each
separately until the flavor comes out (light brown), and add
salt, hing, jaggery, and tamarind and keep it aside.
Grind everything coarsely.

Idli Mulagaipodi Method 1

Ingredients
Red chillies 1 cup (about 15-20)
Urad dhall 1/2 cup
Channa dhall 1/2 cup
Poppy seeds 2 t.spoons
Sesame seeds (black or white) 1/4 cup
Hing 1 t.spoon
Salt 1.5 t.spoons
Cooking oil


Method
Roast poppy seeds, and sesame seeds separately until the flavor
comes out and keep it aside.
Fry urad dhall, channa dhall and red chillies in little oil, each
separately until the flavor comes out (light brown), and add
salt and hing, and keep it aside.
Grind everything coarsely.

Kootu Powder

Ingredients
Red chillies 6-8
Urad dhall 1/2 cup
Pepper 2 t.spoons
Hing 1/2 t.spoon
Curry leaves a few


Method
Dry roast every ingredient separately except hing and curry
leaves without oil until the flavor comes out.
Grind the above with curry leaves, and hing coarsely.
While making vegetable kootu, mix 1 t.spoon of kootu podi with
2 t.spoons of coconut and grind this, and add it to the boiling
vegetables.

Curry Powder

Ingredients
Red chillies 8-10
Channa dhall 1/2 cup
Coriander seeds 1/4 cup
Hing 1/2 t.spoon
Curry leaves 1/4 cup


Method
Dry roast every ingredient separately except hing and curry
leaves without oil until the flavor comes out.
Grind the above with curry leaves, and hing coarsely.

Cumin and Pepper Rasam Powder

Ingredients
Red chillies 6
Thuvar dhall 1 cup
Pepper 1/4 cup
Cumin seeds 1/4 cup
Curry leaves 1/4 cup


Method
Dry roast every ingredient separately except curry leaves without
oil until the flavor comes out.
Grind the above with curry leaves coarsely.

Rasam Powder

Ingredients
Red chillies 1/4 cup (about 5-8 chillies)
Coriander seeds 1 cup
Thuvar dhall 1/4 cup
Methi 1/2 t.spoon
Pepper 1/4 cup
Cumin seeds 1/4 cup
Mustard 1/2 t.spoon
Turmeric 1/2 t.spoon


Method
Dry roast every ingredient except cumin seeds and turmeric until
the flavor comes out. Fry methi until it turns dark brown.
Grind the above with cumin seeds, and turmeric coarsely.

Sambhar Powder

Ingredients
Red chillies 1 cup (about 15-20 chillies)
Coriander seeds 1.5 cups
Channa dhall 1/4 cup
Thuvar dhall 1/4 cup
Methi 1 t.spoon
Mustard 1 t.spoon
Curry leaves 1/4 cup
Turmeric 1/2 t.spoon


Method
Dry roast every ingredient separately without oil till the
flavor comes out.  Fry methi until it turns dark brown.
Grind the above with curry leaves, and turmeric into nice powder.