Name: Kerala curry powder
Yield: Makes 1½ tablespoons
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: seeds from 6 green cardamom pods; 1 teaspoon black peppercorns; 5 cloves; ½ teaspoon brown mustard seeds; ½ teaspoon ground turmeric

Preparation info

Makes
1½ tablespoons

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Spice

By Christine Manfield

Published 1999

About

This spice mix typifies the flavours abundant in the food of the south-western Indian state of Kerala, where the spices are usually mixed with aromatics and made into a wet paste. This mix can be cooked into minced onion, ginger and garlic and added to coconut milk or stock.