Priya Wickramasinghe, Carol Selva Rajah

Garam Masala

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    3 Tablespoons

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Food of India: A Journey for Food Lovers
The Food of India

By Priya Wickramasinghe

Published 2005

  • About

Garam masala means ‘warming spice mix’. It can be a mixture of whole or ground spices. Recipes are numerous but they are all aromatic, rather than ‘hot’ mixes.

Ingredients

  • 8 cardamom pods
  • 2 Indian bay leaves (cassia leaves)
  • 1 teaspoon black peppercorns

Method

Remove the seeds from the cardamom pods. Break the bay leaves into small pieces. Put them in a spice grinder or pestle and mortar with the remaining spices and grind to a fine powder. Store in a small airtight container until needed.