Healthy Food Recipes - Peanut & Curry Leaf Idli Podi
Posted on: 16/Jul/2015 11:15:30 AM
Ingredients
1. Peanut (Groundnut / Nilakadalai) – ½ cup
2. Curry Leaf – 1 cup
3. Urad Dal – 3 tbsp.
4. Chana dal – 3 tbsp.
5. Toor dal – 3 tbsp.
6. Black Pepper Corns – ½ tbsp.
7. Coriander seeds – 2 tbsp.
8. Red Chilli – 5 nos.
9. Asafoetida – 2 pinch
10. Salt – as required
11. Oil – 1 tsp
Method to Prepare
1. Heat the pan and dry roast a cup of Peanuts. Allow it to cool for some time and then remove its skin and keep the peanuts aside.
2. Similarly heat the pan and dry roast Urad dal, Chana dal and Toor dal separately and collect aside.
3. In the same way, heat the pan and dry roast curry leaves in low flame and keep ready.
4. Now heat the pan with a spoon of oil and then add black pepper corns, coriander seeds and red chilli. Once the pepper corns gets splinted out, add the roasted curry leaves and switch off the flame.
5. First add roasted dal in a mixer and grind, Then add the rest of the roasted items and grind all.
6. Keep it in an air tight container and use when ever needed.
7. Serve Peanut & Curryleaf Podi either for idli or rice along with a spoon of ghee or Sesame oil.
Health Benefits:
Curry Leaves:
• In general, the curry leaves is the rich source of Iron and Folic acid.
• Curry leaves aids proper functioning of heart.
• Curry leaves is full of fiber, calcium, carbohydrates, and vitamins and thus curry leaves are getting added in almost all kind of dishes during tempering.
• Curry leaves helps in good digestion.
• Luckily, curry leaves assists in lowering bad cholesterol and blood glucose level.
• Curry leaves helps in natural hair growth.
Peanuts (Groundnut):
• Peanuts are highly rich in protein and other nutrients.
• As peanuts are stuffed with folic acid, women consuming peanuts will have proper functioning of Uterus.
• Peanuts are rich source of calcium and thus it strengthens your bones.
• As peanuts contains good form of cholesterol, never ignore it.
• The Omega 3 contents in Peanuts helps in improving the body immunity.
• Peanuts improves the regular and natural secretion of body hormones especially for women.
