Roasted mixed spice powder.
An aromatic mixture of roasted green cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, cumin, bay leaf, cumin, coriander and red chilli.
It will enhance the flavour of your savoury dishes. Add a spoon full to your chop or cutlet mixture, potato stuffing for aloo paratha, aloo tikki or burger patties, sandwich stuffing, curries, dum aloo or anything you want to make aromatic and spicy.
Sending this post to 136th #Foodiemonday bloghop theme is #MasalaPowder.
When Preethi decided the theme I remember my mother’s bhaja moshla or dry roasted mixed spice powder recipe. She always used to store two type of dry roasted mixed spice powder.
One is dry roasted and ground panch phoran or a mixture of cumin seeds, coriander seeds, nigella or black cumin seeds, fennel seeds and mustard seeds. This mixture is for sukto, a delicious Bengali style mix vegetable. Just sprinkle this ground mixture on sukto or any chutney and enjoy the aroma.
I am sharing second dry roasted and ground spice mixture. You can use this aromatic mixture in any savoury dish to enhance the flavour and taste. Here is my mother’s recipe for aromatic bhaja moshla.
Recipe
Green cardamom – 8
Cloves – 6
Bay leaf – 1, small
Cinnamon – a small stick
Dry red chilli – 2
Cumin seeds – 2 tablespoon
Coriander seeds – 2 tablespoon
Method
Combine all the spices.
Lightly dry roast on low flame. Stir continuously.
Dry roast till the spices gives out roasted aroma.
Immediately transfer the spices on a plate and let it cool down.
Now grind all the spices. Make a fine powder.
Store in a airtight jar.
Notes
1. If you want your spice powder more hot use 3 – 4 dry red chilli.
2. If you don’t want to use red chilli you can use pepper corn.
3. Or if you like you can omit chilli and make it only aromatic not hot.
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The spice mix sounds so aromatic and flavorful di ..I guess we can use it in Pulao and Biryani too
Thanks a lot Poonam. Yes you can but its taste great with dry Curries, dum aloo and and any stuffing 😍
Wow! This spice mix sounds all fragrant, delicious and bursting with flavour! I’d love to try this out some time. Bookmarking the recipe. 🙂
Thanks a lot dear 😊😊
Looks nice and tasty 🙂
Thank you so much 😊😊
Flavorful spices…I will try to use this recipe in my some of the dry snacks..The flavor will be awesome 🙂
Thanks Waagmi. Yes dear you will love the taste and aroma. Not only dry snack you can use it in aloo paratha stuffing or in dum aloo type any curry 😊😊
One of the best masalas ever in Bong cooking!Some people add Radhuni to this as well if available..:)
Thanks a lot Amrita. Yes radhuni goes to panch phoran bhaja for sukto chutney etc. Not in this masala 😊😊
Flavour of spice is too good
Thank you so much Shivani 😍😍
Delicious share Sujata di.. Loved it!
Thank you so much Kriti 😊 😊
Every family has a combination of masalas that they use for most of the dishes. Like the combinations you have used to make your spice mixture.
Right Mayuri. But its not for most of the dishes but in few dishes. In Bengal we use variety of different masala combination. Thanks dear 😊😊
Awesome masala recipe. Bookmarking it.
Thanks a bunch Preethi 😊 😊
This is such an awesome masala Sujata di. So flavorful !!
Thank you so much Sasmita 😊 😊