Garam masala powder Ingredients
Cloves / Karayampoo / Gramboo 2 Tbsp
Cardamoms / Elakka 20 (with the light green color outer cover )
Cinnamon / Karuvappatta 2 " pieces 10
Pepper corns / Kurumulaku 2 tsp
Fennel seeds / Perumjeerakam 1 tsp
Black Cardamoms 10 (with the black outer cover)
Bay leaves / Tejappatta 6
Nutmeg / Jaathikka 1
Star anise / Thakkolam 6
Dry roast all the ingredients together in a heated pan.If the spices are enough hot to touch with your hands, then remove it from the fire. No need to roast for long. Powder them together when it is little warm. Keep in an air tight container.
If you don't like, no need to add pepper corns and fennel seeds in this preparation. And if a recipe asks for pepper powder or fennel seeds powder with garam masala, you can add it according to the recipe, since this powder contains only less quantity of them and won't have that much effect.
wow! thats a heady mix of spices.. i can almost the aroma of the powder :)
ReplyDeleteI have bookmarked it. I will make them.We can use this garam masala powder for the Non veg dishes too?
ReplyDeleteBeautiful GM pd Seena. Photos are great and blog has really cool colors!:)
ReplyDeleteThanks friends!
ReplyDeleteYeah Happy, this powder is mainly for preparing non veg dishes..But for veg dishes too, you can use this.. :)
Seena this looks and sounds a tasty garam masala recipe. I already have a huge jar full of garam but I have bookmarked this post to try sometime for sure.
ReplyDeleteThat was a nice instruction, seena! I can smell the garam masala powder from the picture. Thanks.
ReplyDeletegaram masala pic is so tempting :)
ReplyDeletewow!home made garam masala...bookmarked it..
ReplyDeleteeverything will taste soooo good with fresh garam masala powder hmmmmm
ReplyDeletethis is one spice powder that i use a lot....but wait for amma to send me the rightly powdered one...
ReplyDeleteHi Seena, long time, isnt it..hey hey hey, i was goin thru ur blog, my!!!,,soooo many recipies, great goin girl!!!i have taken down the yellow cookie recipie, will def try it out, was my fav during childhood, and still is....keep in touch ok, dear...me running 6 months now, but still have vomitting , with less frequency thou...once in 3-4 days..by, god blesss
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ReplyDeletefirst of all..great pictures and lovely detailed description..perfectly user friendly write-up. Nice to know more about garam masala powder ingredients.
Homemade garam masala should be aromatic and the spices are so attractive :)
ReplyDeletenice recipe! my garam masala recipe is slightly different from urs(i just add cloves,cinnamon,shazeera Cardamom and grind them.)
ReplyDeleteLooks colorful Seena:) I can feel the masala aroma from my computer :)
ReplyDeleteFresh home-made garam masala must be awesome... and I love the color of that cabbage pickle.
ReplyDeleteI too tried makin this powder at home and it did came out great! Thanks for sharing Seena!
ReplyDeleteI've never tried anything other than store bought garam masala....nice recipe.
ReplyDeletehey thanks seena.keep visiting. i will put up more recipes this week.
ReplyDeleteHi,I am trying to make more new dishes and trying to hit a bit of my heritage.I have never made a indian dish before an seen this chicken masala recipe i want to try , but I don't have this spice. I found this an thought awsome , but i have a little promblem . I have most of these spices already . But i only have cardamoms an cumin and things like that in ground or powder form already. If they are already ground how much should I use then ? Can I even do that? Thanks for all an any help you may have . I will keep checking ack to see if there is any help . Again thank you .
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