Murungai Keerai/Drumstick Leaves Podi

Murungai keerai podi, one delicious and healthy recipe which goes well with idli or hot rice with ghee.
My MIL got some dry murungai leaves from India grown in our house, so planned to make this podi. Murungai leaves and drumsticks have a lot of medicinal properties, so make this podi and keep it when you get them in abundance. It's one of the common trees grown in most of the houses in Southern India.

Preparation Time :5 mins | Cooking Time :15 mins |Yields-1/2kg

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Ingredients:

Drumstick leaves - 2 cups - I have used dry ones, you can also use fresh which will get dry while roasting.

Urad dal - 1 cup

Channa dal - 1/2 cup

Red chili - 15 to 20 or to taste

Dania - 1 tbsp

Seeragam/jeera - 1tbsp

Groundnuts (optional) - 1 tbsp

Asfoetida/perungayam/hing - 1/4 tsp

Salt to taste

Method:

• Measure and keep all the ingredients. Dry roast adding the ingredients one by one.

• When the color starts to change add the drumstick leaves.

• Add asafoetida.

• Salt

• Cool them and grind.

• Keep them in an air-tight container.