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Karuveppilai Podi is a flavorful powder prepared with curry leaves and freshly roasted & ground spice mix. It tastes great when mixed with rice, tempering, and a generous amount of sesame oil.
Curry leaves podi is also a delicious side for Idli/dosa/curd rice. It is a tasty make-ahead podi that will stay good for months. Perfect for the lunchbox and travel food.
Curry leaves will be available in almost all South Indian dishes prepared in our home. Sometimes while tempering or garnishing, adding a few curry leaves gives flavor to the dish. My Amma buys groceries every day, I always see a few stems of curry leaves and coriander leaves in her grocery basket.
Ever since my childhood days, I am one of the few in our home who eats curry leaves. My sister always omits eating karuveppilai. I tell her not to waste (big sister 🙂 ).
Every summer we visit our uncle's house. Those days they had a big curry leaves the tree in the backyard. My aunt uses the fresh curry leaves from the tree for cooking. Whenever we play near the garden. I pick some curry leaves and munch on them. While coming back from the trip, my aunt gives us a big bag of curry leaves.
After every trip, Amma prepares this Karuveppilai podi with some of the leaves and puts it in a box. We like to eat it with rice. My father takes it as a milagai podi, adds some oil to the curry leaves podi, and uses it as a side for idli.
When I was in college, my close friend was a Mallu. I have visited her house many times. I love aunty's food. Knowing my sweet addiction, every time I visit her, aunty makes delicious sweets. She also adds lots of curry leaves in her cooking for me😊
Coming back to the Karuveppilai podi. This flavorful podi can be prepared within 10 minutes. If mixed with rice it makes tasty curry leaves rice. You can have it plain or make a tasty tadka (thalliupu) with mustard seeds, channa dal, and peanuts.
Here I generally buy a packet of curry leaves and use it for the entire week. Whenever my Amma sends me a courier, she prepares curry leaves podi, and coconut podi, and sends them. I use it for a month. It will stay good for months but freshness will be there only for some time.
Last summer when my Amma visited I went to Indian stores and saw offers on curry leaves. Immediately I thought about the Karuveppilai podi and asked my Amma to prepare it.
Karuveppilai Podi | Curry leaves Powder |Karivepaku Podi
Ingredients
- 1 cup Curry leaves tightly pressed
- 2 tablespoon Channa Dal/ Bengal gram dal
- 2 tablespoon Urad dal
- 1 teaspoon Whole Black Pepper
- 3 Red Chillies
- pinch of Turmeric powder
- Required Salt
- 1/4 teaspoon Asafoetida
Instructions
- Extract the curry leaves from the stem and wash them. Spread the washed curry leaves on a cloth/kitchen towel. Let curry leaves dry well
- Dry roast urad dal, channa dal, red chilli, and pepper until starting to change color
- Add curry leaves and saute till dal turn golden brown
- Transfer the dal to a plate and place the curry leaves back to the hot pan and let curry leaves cool in the pan
- After everything is cool first dry grind the dal, pepper, red chilli, salt, and turmeric powder
- Furthermore add curry leaves and asafoetida; grind curry leaves powder
- Store it in an airtight container
Video
Notes
- Store it in an airtight container so that podi freshness will be maintained
- Roasted garlic can be added for extra flavor
- Curry leaves can also be roasted in the microwave for 2-3 minutes
- Roasted coconut (2 tbsp) can be added to the podi
- If you like tangy flavor small gooseberry size Tamarind can be ground along with roasted dal
- 2 tablespoon of toor dal can also be dry roasted with other dal. In that case, reduce channa dal to 2 tbsp
- Oil is not required for dry roasting
- Adjust the spice according to your taste
Ingredients
1 cup Curry leaves tightly pressed
2 tablespoon Channa Dal/ Bengal gram dal
2 tablespoon Urad dal
1 teaspoon Whole Black Pepper
3 Red Chillies
pinch of Turmeric powder
Required Salt
1/4 teaspoon Asafoetida
How to Karuveppilai podi with step-by-step pictures:
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- Extract the curry leaves from the stem and wash them. Spread the washed curry leaves on a cloth/kitchen towel. Let curry leaves dry well
- Dry roast urad dal, channa dal, red chilli, and pepper until starting to change color
- Add curry leaves and saute till dal turns golden brown
- Transfer the dal to a plate and place the curry leaves back in the hot pan and let the curry leaves cool in the pan
- After everything is cool first dry grind the dal, pepper, red chilli, salt, and turmeric powder
- Furthermore, add curry leaves and asafoetida; grind curry leaves powder
- Store it in an airtight container
Healthy and tasty 🙂
I do love reading about all the different spices and mixes, that was such an interesting read thank, I learnt something about curry leaves 🙂
Very easy and healthy podi recipe...
I've never tried curry leaves but the way you described the powder added to rice sounds delicious. And I like that the mix has chili - nice and spicy!
We love curry flavours, but I've never tried making my own curry powder from dried curry leaves. This would be quite the treat, I'm sure!
This sounds like something that needs to be rubbed on some chicken today that I have in my fridge!
I have never made podi curry leaves powder myself - But I heard of it and I know how amazing it smells. Years ago my neighbor use to give us some with the Dosa..! Yum.
I've never really used curry leaves but it sounds simple enough to do. And I enjoyed reading about the process.
I have never made curry leaves powder before I love how easy this is! It sounds like a wonderful spice blend, I'll have to try making this soon. I know my husband would love it.
I'm intrigued with grinding my own spices. I haven't done it ... can't find a mortar / pestle that I want to buy.
meanwhile, I'm drooling over your pictures!
This is so interesting. I had no clue you could actually get curry leaves to make your own spice!
Beautiful photos! This curry leaves powder sounds amazing. I want to add it to everything! Delicious!
I never knew that curry came in leaves. I thought it was a mixture of spice powders. So great to know and this mix of chilies and spices looks great! Perfect for chicken and just about anything else!
I had never heard of this but I love curry so I'm intrigued! Love the pictures.
I have agricultural how much u need I send curry powder
I wish I had relatives with a curry tree! Those leaves are SO tasty and bring such a unique flavor to food. YUM
I've never made Podi at home but I love having them with ghee+rice 🙂 Your recipe looks so simple and I'm saving it for trying later.
I loved what I read on this page. Wish to try it soon. You have mentioned about eating it with rice curds and oil, can you please tell me exactly how it needs to be done. Thanx.
You can mix Podi with rice and little sesame oil and can be taken as a variety rice. For curd rice side we have the Podi as such