KALATHU PODI

Kalathu podi is made out of various dals, a dry powder to be served along with hot plain steaming rice and gingelly oil.  We used to have this along with fried papad, vadam, karuvadam etc.  It is also known as Parippu podi.

This is a speciality of Palakkad Tamil Brahmins.  When you ran out of any vegetables at home or bored of making anything, simple plain rice along with this powder and ghee or gingelly oil is sufficient enough to fill the stomach.

It can be prepared with multiple dals or with a single dal.  Here I have chosen the Chana dal.  I have prepared today the Kollu kalathu podi and flaxseed kalathu podi.

Let us look at the recipe now:

Author: Raji Ramakrishnan
Cuisine : South Indian
Category: Powder recipes

Ingredients:

1/4 cup chana dal
1/2 tsp black pepper
1 red chilli
1 tsp salt

Method:

1.  Dry roast the chana dal, black pepper, red chilli.
2.  Cool and grind to a smooth powder along with salt.
3.  Keep in an airtight container.

How to serve:

1 tsp powder and the required rice with gingelly oil mix together and serve with papad, vadam etc.

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Note:  You can add hing powder and  lit bit cumin powder too.