pudina masala powder | homemade mint powder | pudina masala recipe
Pudina Masala Powder is made by drying fresh leaves with simple spices.
Ingredients
1 cup = 200ml
- 5 bunches Fresh Mint leaves/ about 500 grams
- 1/4 cup Black Salt
- 1.5 tbsp Black pepper whole
- 2 tbsp Cumin Seeds dry roasted
- 1 tbsp salt
Instructions
- Remove the wilted and stale leaves from the stems of mint.
- Rinse the stems under running water so well that there remains no impurities.
- Place the stems at some shadowed place so that they turn adry. It will take 1 to 2 days.
- Thereafter, when the stems turn completely dry, remove their leaves just by scrubbing the stems between palm.
- Take a blender, add all the ingredients and blend to a smooth powder.
- Pudina masala powder is ready. Keep in airtight container.
Notes
- As a substitute of whole black pepper, powdered black pepper too can be added.
- Instead of drying the entire stems and thereafter taking out the mint leaves, you can first pluck the fresh leaves from stems one after another and let the leaves turn dry. However we find the method, adopted in the present recipe, more easy.