RECHEADO MASALA

Makes: 3 cups

Ingredients:

  • Kashmiri dry red chillies – 30
  • Peppercorns – 10
  • Garlic flakes – 20
  • Ginger – 1″
  • Cinnamon – 1½” broken into bits
  • Cumin – ¼ tsp
  • Coriander seeds – 2 tsp
  • Cloves – 10
  • Jaggery powder/ Raw sugar/ Sugar – 2 tablespoons
  • Salt to taste
  • Vinegar (preferably palm vinegar) – 1 cup
  • Tamarind – 1 lime-sized ball

Method:

  • Break the red chillies into bits and pour the vinegar over it to soften the chillies and help grind the masala to a fine paste. Add more vinegar if required to grind the masala.
  • Grind all the ingredients including the vinegar chilli mix to as fine a paste as possible.
  • Refrigerate in a glass bottle.

Notes:

  • Recheado masala is used to make fish or prawn balchão, fried stuffed Mackerel.
  • If I have the masala in stock I use it for vindaloo too.

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