How to make Dal Powder

Ingredients

• • Puffed bengal grams/Chutney dal - 1 cup
• • Red chillies - 12
• • Rock salt - 1 teaspoon
• • Garlic - 8 flakes
• • Coconut (grated, dry) - 1 tablespoon
• • Ghee - 1 ½ teaspoons

Method

• 1. Heat ghee in a deep pan and fry red chillies, chutney gram for 1 or 2 minutes.
• 2. Allow to cool, powder it, in mixie along with salt.
• 3. Pass through a sieve and put the coarse powder in mixie again.
• 4. Powder it well. Then add garlic, dry coconut. Run the mixie in low speed till it blends.
• 5. Remove from mixie and then add it to the sieved powder.
• 6. Blend well using hands and preserve in dry, air tight bottles.
• 7. Normally this powder is mixed with plain white rice along with melted ghee.