The Big Three Spice Mixtures

These are the spice mixtures, or masalas, you need to have for many Parsi recipes to taste correct. Not many urban Parsi households make their own dry spice mixtures anymore, since even with a grinding stone it would be hard to pound them by hand in the quantity generally needed. With an electric coffee grinder kept just for spices, making the big three isn’t that hard, but if this seems like too much to take on, the Sources section offers some excellent, tested alternatives.