Annapoorna Dhall Rice Powder 200g

Exam-week dinners: podi rice and an appalam, eaten one-handed with a textbook open.

• What: Paruppu podi (dal powder for rice)
• Pack: 200 g
• Brand: Annapoorna
• Best for: Hot rice with ghee or nallennai, idli, dosai

What it is

Paruppu podi is the dry dal powder that opens a South Indian meal: a spoon over hot rice and a spoon of ghee or nallennai, mixed by hand before the sambar arrives. At home it is traditionally made by roasting dals with dried red chilli and grinding them to a coarse powder.

It tastes nutty, savoury and mildly hot, and it turns plain rice into a meal on nights when nobody wants to cook. It goes over idli and dosai too. Choosing between podis? Paruppu podi for rice with ghee; idli milagai podi for a hotter, oil-mixed dip; Annapoorna Rasam Powder when rasam should follow.

Tip: Keep a small jar by the stove and refill it from the packet. An opened packet soaks up Irish damp and goes lumpy.

Goes well with: GRB Pure Ghee, 777 Appalam No 3, 777 Pepper Rasam Paste

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