7 Easy Homemade Masala Recipes to spice up your food
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 25-05-2019
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Punjabi Chole Masala...
Ingredients
2 tbsp cumin seeds (jeera), 1 tbsp caraway seeds (shahjeera), 5 dry red chillies, 1 tsp turmeric (haldi) powder or 1 piece of fresh turmeric, 1 tbsp coriander seeds (dhania), 1/2 tbsp black peppercorns (kalimirch), 10 cloves (lavang), 1 tbsp white sesame seeds (safed til), 10 green cardamoms (hari elaichi), 4 black cardamoms (badi elaichi), 1/2 tbsp dry ginger (saunth) powder or 2 pieces of dry ginger, 1 tbsp dry mango powder (amchur), 5 sticks of cinnamon (dalchini), 2 bay leaves (tej patta), 1 star anise (chakri phool), 1/2 tsp grated nutmeg (jaiphal) powder or a small piece of nutmeg, 1/2 tbsp rock salt (kala namak)
How to prepare
Dry roast all the ingredients individually except the spice powders. When the ingredients cool, blend them to a fine powder. Store in an air tight container.