{"id":1502,"date":"2012-02-25T12:33:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T07:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2021-03-30T20:06:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T14:36:13","slug":"anna-podi-killer-powder-andhra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/anna-podi-killer-powder-andhra\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Podi: That killer powder from Andhra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Podi is an Andhra Chetty recipe. It is a powder that you mix with steamed rice and eat. My mother picked this recipe up from her Komiti Chetty friends in Chittoor.<\/p>\n<h3>Ingredients<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Peanuts: 2 cups<\/li>\n<li>Roasted Gram Dal (pottu kadalai): 2 cups<\/li>\n<li>Red chillies: about 15 (but depends on how spicy you want it to be.<\/li>\n<li>Tamarind: a small ball<\/li>\n<li>Salt: as desired (but go easy on it. A couple of spoons should work for the aforementioned quantities)<\/li>\n<li>Asafoetida (hing): a pinch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Preparation<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Roast the peanuts and chillies (without oil, yes.)<\/li>\n<li>Mix peanuts with the roasted gram dal (Note: No need to fry the dal. It&#8217;s already roasted yo!)<\/li>\n<li>In a ladle, heat a spoonful of oil. Turn the stove off.<\/li>\n<li>Add the small ball of Tamarind to the heated oil. (If you went &#8220;What the fffffuu&#8230;.&#8221; I understand. But that&#8217;s how this one rolls yo)<\/li>\n<li>Add the fried tamarind with oil to the peanuts, roasted gram dal and chillies.<\/li>\n<li>Add the Asafoetida.<\/li>\n<li>Add Salt.<\/li>\n<li>Let it all cool.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Grind it to a fine powder.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tastes best when mixed with rice and a little ghee.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Bonus<\/strong> tip: I love to eat it with Rasam. Did you just ask how to make original Iyengar Rasam? Coming up shortly!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Podi is an Andhra Chetty recipe. It is a powder that you mix with steamed rice and eat. My mother picked this recipe up from her Komiti Chetty friends in Chittoor. Ingredients Peanuts: 2 cups Roasted Gram Dal (pottu kadalai): 2 cups Red chillies: about 15 (but depends on how spicy you want it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/no-intro-header-overlaid-dark.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,175,173,57],"tags":[176,120,177,179,178,121],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andhra","category-cooking-2","category-recipes-2","category-stories","tag-andhra-2","tag-cooking","tag-food","tag-podi","tag-powders","tag-recipes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"jetpack-portfolio-admin-thumb":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Suman Kumar","author_link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/author\/suman-kumar\/"},"uagb_comment_info":5,"uagb_excerpt":"Anna Podi is an Andhra Chetty recipe. It is a powder that you mix with steamed rice and eat. My mother picked this recipe up from her Komiti Chetty friends in Chittoor. Ingredients Peanuts: 2 cups Roasted Gram Dal (pottu kadalai): 2 cups Red chillies: about 15 (but depends on how spicy you want it&hellip;","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Gbk8-oe","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1015,"url":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/monkey-business\/","url_meta":{"origin":1502,"position":0},"title":"Monkey Business","author":"Suman Kumar","date":"January 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Oh no, it is not what you think. No Mr.Symonds, I am not getting cute here. This is a true story:This happened when I was in seventh class. We had just moved back to Chittoor from Chennai. It was a pleasant evening and our neighbor was calling his pigs home.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;stories&quot;","block_context":{"text":"stories","link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/category\/stories\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":631,"url":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/latest-report-from-relief-volunteers-orur-kuppam-ennore\/","url_meta":{"origin":1502,"position":1},"title":"Latest Report from Relief Volunteers (Orur Kuppam &amp; Ennore)","author":"Suman Kumar","date":"December 31, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Visit to Orur Kuppam and Ennore As is evident now, the huts and belongings of the families residing in the coasts were washed away on Sunday. Psychological help and reconstructing their lives is a priority now. Volunteers visited the fishing hamlets and slums beyond Ennore and Orur Kuppam in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1148,"url":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/latest-report-from-relief-volunteers-orur-kuppam-ennore-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1502,"position":2},"title":"Latest Report from Relief Volunteers (Orur Kuppam &amp; Ennore)","author":"Suman Kumar","date":"December 31, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Visit to Orur Kuppam and Ennore As is evident now, the huts and belongings of the families residing in the coasts were washed away on Sunday. Psychological help and reconstructing their lives is a priority now. Volunteers visited the fishing hamlets and slums beyond Ennore and Orur Kuppam in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/latest-report-from-relief-volunteers-orur-kuppam-ennore-2\/#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1101,"url":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/the-price-you-gotta-pay\/","url_meta":{"origin":1502,"position":3},"title":"The Price You Gotta Pay","author":"Suman Kumar","date":"July 20, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"It was five in the morning. It was a balmy October day and the trees stood still. The town of Chittoor was pregnant with expectation. Chiranjeevi's Raakshasudu was releasing that day. The Chiru fans' association had arranged for a special show. Quite a few people I knew were going for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;childhood&quot;","block_context":{"text":"childhood","link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/category\/childhood\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1047,"url":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/recipes-for-the-bachelor\/","url_meta":{"origin":1502,"position":4},"title":"Recipes for the bachelor","author":"Suman Kumar","date":"May 27, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Preran's blog on recipes. Interesting! If you are one of those guys, bachelor or otherwise, that fancy cooking, there are some interesting recipes there. Preran, after a while you can publish a book for bachelors and help them see beyond Maggi?","rel":"","context":"In \"cooking\"","block_context":{"text":"cooking","link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/tag\/cooking\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":890,"url":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/the-perfect-love-letter-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":1502,"position":5},"title":"The Perfect Love Letter 3","author":"Suman Kumar","date":"July 9, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Story continued fromPart 1Part 2All my plans and efforts went up in smoke. It was a heart-wrenching passage in my life. I roamed about in the wilderness of my forlorn life. I even missed the first day first show of the latest Chiranjeevi release. I let down my hero! Minutes,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;stories&quot;","block_context":{"text":"stories","link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/category\/stories\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}