Homemade Maggi Masala-e-Magic (Copycat Recipe) | How to Make Maggi Masala-e-Magic at Home
Homemade Maggi Masala-e-Magic brings instant flavor to everyday dishes, recreating that iconic taste with simple spices from your own kitchen.
Ingredients
- 6 tbsp Coriander seeds (dhania beej)
- 2 tbsp Cumin seeds (jeera)
- 2 tbsp fennel seeds (sounf)
- 1/2 tsp Fenugreek seeds (methi dana)
- 4 bay leaves (tejpata)
- 2 inches piece of cinnamon (dalchini)
- 8 green cardamoms (hari ilaichi)
- 10 cloves (loung)
- 60 black pepper corns (kali mirch)
- 1/2 nutmeg (jaifal)
- Small piece of dry ginger (sonth)
- 8 dry red chilies (sookhi lal mirch)
- 4 tbsp dry onion strands or 2 tbsp onion powder (sukhe pyaz ke lacche)
- 2 tbsp dry garlic or 1 tbsp garlic powder (sukha lehsun)
- 2 tbsp kashmiri red chilli powder
- 1 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp dry mango powder (amchur)
- 2 tbsp cornflour/arrowroot
Instructions
- Take a pan and add coriander seeds (dhania beej), cumin seeds (jeera), fennel seeds (sounf), fenugreek seeds (methi dana), bay leaves (tejpata), cinnamon (dalchini), green cardamoms (hari ilaichi), cloves (loung), black pepper corns (kali mirch), nutmeg (jaifal), small piece of dry ginger (sonth) and dry red chilies (sookhi lal mirch).
- Dry roast them for couple of minutes on low heat until aromatic.
- Remove the pan from the heat and let the spices cool down completely.
- Add these spices in the grinder jar.
- Then add dry onion strands and dry garlic (see details in notes below). In case you have readymade onion powder and garlic powder, add them.
- Thereafter add kashmiri red chilli powder, turmeric powder, sugar, salt, dry mango powder and cornflour.
- Grind them to a very fine powder.
- Magic Masala ready. It can be stored for months.
- Use 1 tbsp of Magic Masala for each cooking (3-4 servings)
Notes
- To keep the cost of this recipe low, we haven't bought the garlic and onion powder from market but thinly chopped them and dried them under the sun. It was about 6-7 garlic cloves and 1 medium onion cut so thinly. However you can also make garlic powder and onion powder in oven as well.
- If you have any of the whole spices already powdered, you can skip adding the whole one while roasting and later add the same power while mixing everything in the end.