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Coriander Leaves Podi-Kothamalli Podi Recipe-Podi Recipes

March 17, 2014 by PadhuSankar 19 Comments

Coriander leaves are also called cilantro. It is a herb commonly used for flavoring and garnishing the dishes. Coriander leaves are rich in Vitamins-A, C, and K. They also contain small amount of calcium, iron, thiamin, riboflavin, folic acid. According to UK Natural Therapies website “The coriander leaves contain natural antihistamines, Vitamin-C and bioflavonoids. The juice that is extracted from the coriander leaves can be used as a topical application for the treatment of allergies and skin diseases like eczema and fungal infections. Coriander is also effective in reducing allergic reactions such as hay fever.” Apart from using it for flavoring and garnishing the dishes, we can include coriander leaves in our diet in the form of coriander chutney, coriander rice, podi etc. This is a very flavorful podi, which we all love at home with hot rice drizzled with ghee/sesame seed oil. Today we will learn how to make kothamalli podi following this easy recipe.

Coriander Leaves Podi-Kothamalli Podi


Coriander Leaves Podi-Kothamalli podi

  Prep Time : 10 mins | Cook Time : 25 mins |   Yields : 1 cup

   Ingredients needed

   Coriander Leaves -1 big bunch
   Bengal gram/kadalai paruppu -1/4 cup
   Urad dal -1/4 cup
   Red Chillies -8-10
   Asafoetida – a pinch
   Oil-1/2 tsp
   Salt to taste

Preparation

Wash coriander leaves well and drain the water completely. Chop it finely along with the stem.You can use the tender stem also for this recipe. Spread it on a cloth and dry the coriander leaves in the shade for 6-7 hours. After drying, I got 2 cups of coriander leaves. The color of the leaves will remain green even after drying for 6-7 hours in the shade. 

Recipe instructions

Heat 1/2 tsp of oil and fry the red chillies and hing for a few seconds and remove it.


Then in the same pan, fry both the dals (channa dal + urad dal) together until dal turns golden brown.


Fry the coriander leaves on low flame until all the moisture from the leaves evaporates.

Grind everything together adding salt needed to a coarse powder. It will take time to get a coarse powder as shown in the picture above. So be patient and grind leaving a gap of 5-10 minutes in between to prevent the mixer from getting heated.

Store it in an airtight container at room temperature. If you feel that there is moisture in your podi, store it in the refrigerator. It will stay fresh for 15-20 days.


Enjoy with hot rice topped with a tsp of ghee or sesame seed oil.

More Recipes using Coriander Leaves/Kothamalli thalai 

Coriander Chutney

Coriander Rice

Coriander Chutney with onions

Coconut chutney with coriander flavor

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Comments

  1. Sireesha Puppala

    March 17, 2014 at 4:42 pm

    lovely photograph paddu

    Reply
  2. Biny's Recipes

    March 17, 2014 at 8:07 pm

    i love coriander and this recipe gets my thumbs up

    Reply
  3. Priya Suresh

    March 17, 2014 at 8:51 pm

    Very flavourful and fantastic podi, i can have this podi happily with some rice.

    Reply
  4. Shella

    March 17, 2014 at 9:25 pm

    I am inspired to make this. I love podis but have never made one, though I would just love friends like you passing on some to me 😉

    Reply
  5. Madhavi K

    March 18, 2014 at 12:13 am

    Such a warm color of the podi. Love your recipes!

    Reply
  6. Sumee

    March 18, 2014 at 1:09 am

    That's a delicious powder to store and use… I have never done coriander one. Nice..

    Reply
  7. nandoos Kitchen

    March 18, 2014 at 3:24 am

    lovely colour of podi and a very useful post. Have tried mint powder but not coriander powder. Will try this.

    Reply
  8. Meenal Krishnamurthy

    March 18, 2014 at 11:45 am

    very good receipe

    Reply
  9. veena jithendran

    March 18, 2014 at 2:55 pm

    Great site padhu….
    Really inspiring…….

    Reply
  10. Santha Lakshmi

    March 18, 2014 at 4:00 pm

    Very nice sis. Thank u for very health dish sis..

    Reply
  11. divya

    March 18, 2014 at 10:41 pm

    This is really really yumm.. Cant stop drooling.

    Reply
  12. Anu s kitchendelights

    March 19, 2014 at 3:25 pm

    Podi looks colourful…yummy to go with steamed rice..

    Reply
  13. Uma

    July 13, 2017 at 7:47 pm

    Hi can I use yellow splits , I understand this Is split peas and not Chana dal,instead of chana dal in this recipe ?
    And also can I substitute this yellow splits for chana dal in a recipe like for adai, paruppu usili etc ?
    Thanks

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      July 18, 2017 at 7:56 am

      No, use only chana dal or kadalai paruppu for best results.

      Reply
  14. Rohit Chadha

    October 28, 2017 at 12:01 pm

    Will it take a long time to roast the coriander since we are not using completely dried coriander.

    Reply
  15. chandu

    January 21, 2018 at 2:01 pm

    Hi.. I tried this as I accidentally ended up with a lot of coriander leaves at home.. Wanted a recipe that I could use to preserve them. But it came like a thick thogayal n not a podi. So, can you tell me what I did wrong?

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      January 22, 2018 at 7:46 am

      The coriander leaves should be dried well in shade and you must add the mentioned dal quantity.I assume that the coriander was not dry enough that is why you have ended up in thick thogayal.

      Reply
  16. Unknown

    July 23, 2018 at 2:22 pm

    Hi I dried the leaves for 3 hrs it's still wet can I keep that in the fridge and again can I dry that in the morg

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      July 24, 2018 at 6:29 am

      No, you should not put it back in the fridge. It will become perfect once you grind it with all the dal.

      Reply

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