Goda Masala (Maharashtrian masala)

Ingredients –

Coriander seeds – 250 grams

Cumin seeds – 1/4^th bowl

Cloves – 5 grams

Cinnamon – 10 grams

Black cardamom – 10 grams

Bay leaf – 5-6

Dagadphool – 5 grams

Nagkeshar – 5 grams

Badal/star anis – 5 grams

Dry red chilies – 50 grams

Sesame seeds – 50 grams

Grated Dry coconut  - ½ bowl

Asafetida – 10 grams

Turmeric powder – 1 t-sp

Oil – 1/4^th bowl

Salt – 1 tb-sp

Procedure -

1.  Clean coriander seeds.

2. Heat oil in pan. Add one by one cloves, cinnamon, black cardamom, dagadphool, nagkeshar, star anis, bay leaf. (Don’t add them together. Each spice needs it’s own time to fry.) Take them out and keep aside.

3. In the same oil add cumin seeds, roast them very well. In a mixing bowl add all the spices and turmeric powder, asafetida  before all the spices cool down completely.

4. Add red chilies in the remaining oil and roast them very well. Drizzle some salt on the chilies.

5.  Add grated coconut in a pan and roast brown.

6. Add sesame seeds in the same pan and roast light brown.

7. Add remaining oil in a pan and roast coriander seeds till they become light brown in color. Keep gas on low to medium flame while roasting.

8. Firstly grind all fried spices in a mixer grinder. Take them out.

9. Then add red chilies and salt mixture in grinder and grind to the fine powder.

10. Then add coriander seeds and grind to the fine powder.

11. Mix all the ground spices together and grind them. 

12. Grind sesame seeds and coconut one by one and add them into the spices mixture.

13. Mix all the spices very.

14. Store masala in air tight glass container.

Note :

    You can add 1/4^th bowl black sesame seeds or Karale along with regular while sesame seeds. Tastes good.