Special ingredients

Here are some of the ingredients that makes our  food soo delicious .

• Vellulli karam / garlic clilly powder .
• Sambaru podi  / curry powder .

These two are very common in ingredients all the kitches in GUNTUR . We use these in almost all curries . These give curries very unique taste and flavour . Every body prepares these in their own way . There is no perticula measurement / recipe to make these . Recipes like this are passed from generation to generation  . My granny gave her recipe to my mom and from my mom to me may be from me to ......

sambaru podi / curry powder

I dont know the perfect measurements because , back at home we used to make it onlly once a year (summer) and used to do it in huge quantitie so I just want to give a basic idea of  this recipe ( i never tried it and just helped my mom prepating it) . This should be done back at home because it requires a lot of hardwork and hardware ( big pestle....) .

Ingredients :
Dried Turmeric root .
Coriander seeds .
Jeera .
Fenugreek seeds .
Curry leaves
Garlic
Salt
Caster oil (aamudam )

• Crush the dried turmeric roots (these are like hard stones , crushing  requires lot of energy)
• Dry roast all the coriander seeds , jeera , frugreek seeds saperately .
• Dry roast curry leaves .
• Ground all to fine powder .( it is done in mills only )
• In a big pestle crush the garlic by adding salt .
• Now combine the gounded powder , crushed garlic and caster oil well .
• Store it in clean and dry containers that has tight lit .
• This will store up to one year .

vellulli karam / garlic chilly powder

Ingredients :

 Red chilly powder - 11/2cups
Garlic - 1whole head
Salt - 1tsp

• Separate the cloves from the garlid head .( need to peel the garlic cloves)
• Put all the chilli powder , garlic , salt a clean mixie jar and pulse it until all the garlic cloves to are finely minced .

• Now transfer it to the clean and dry air tight container .

• Smells and taste great upto 3 months .

NOTE:
      - Can always add garlic according to your taste .
      - No need to refrigerate the garlic chilly powder .
      - If you want to freeze it , put it in a ziplock bag and seal it by taking off all the air and put it in freezer .
      - In our culture for new moms(after delivary) are fed with this for 3 days with rice and ghee .