Cardamom - Make Cardamom Powder | Homemade Elaichi Powder
Cardamom Powder | Homemade Elaichi Powder - Cardamom powder is really quick to make and keeps well up to 6 months. Though elaichi or cardamom is used as a whole in Indian recipes, cardamom powder is also needed to lift up the spice quotient. Use it for biryani, curries, gravies and most of the Indian sweets.
Ingredients
- 500 gram Green Cardamom Hari Elaichi
- 0.5 tsp Sugar
Instructions
- Put a non-stick frying pan on the flame.
- Maintain the heat on medium.
- Add half of the cardamom (1 cup) to the heated pan.
- Dry roast the cardamom stirring regularly.
- When the cardamom pod has a few golden spots visible.
- Get them off the pan.
- Cool them down completely then transfer to a clean mixer-grinder dry grinder jar.
- Add sugar and grind to a fine powder (this may take up to two iterations).
- Store in an airtight container, preferably a glass container.
Notes
- Add a little amount of sugar in each batch for making cardamom powder. This makes a very smooth elaichi powder.
- Grind the entire cardamom pod with seeds. The powder be more flavourful
- If grinding the whole pod, grind it twice for better smoothness.