Ingredients:
• 250 gm Coriander seeds
• 10 gm Coconut
• 10 gm Stone flower
• 10 gm bay leaves
• 20 gm White Sesame seeds
• 20 gm Poppy seeds
• 10 gm Black Cardamom
• 10 gm Star anise
• 10 gm Cassia buds
• 10 gm Black cumin seeds
• 10 gm Khada Hing / Asafoetida stone
• 10 gm Cinnamon
• 10 gm Black peppercorns
• 10 gm Cloves
• 10 gm Mace
• 4 tsp Oil
Method:
• Take coriander seeds and clean them really good. • Heat up a pan on medium heat.
• Add coriander seeds in pan and roast really good for 7-8 minutes on low to medium heat until it release aroma. Take it out into a bowl.
• Add sesame seeds into pan and roast on medium heat until they turn light golden. Take roasted sesame seeds into a bowl.
• Add poppy seeds and roast on medium heat until it gets nice golden color. Take it out into a bowl.
• Add black cumin seeds and roast on medium heat until it releases aroma. Take it out into a bowl.
• Add grated coconut and roast on medium heat until it gets nice golden color. Take it out into a bowl.
• Heat up oil in the pan. When oil is enough hot, add cinnamon sticks and fry until it changes its colour. Take it out into a dish.
• Add black cardamom and fry it nicely. Take it out into a dish
. • Add star anise and fry it nicely. Take it out into the dish.
• Add mace and fry it really good. Take it out into the dish.
• Add cloves and fry it nicely. Take it out into the dish. Cloves puff up on frying.
• Add black peppercorns and fry it nicely. Take it out into the dish.
• Add cassia buds and fry it nicely. Take it out into the dish.
• Add asafetida stones and fry it nicely. Take it out into a separate bowl. It changes its color and puff up on frying.
• Add bay leaves and fry it nicely. Take it out into a separate bowl.
• Add stone flower in the end and fry it nicely. Take it out into the dish.
• Transfer the roasted coriander seeds into blender pot and blend it.
• Sieve the powder to remove coarse powder from it. Keep the coarse powder aside.
• Add fried cinnamon, black cardamom, star anise, javitri, cloves, black peppercorns and cassia buds together into blender pot and blend them.
• Add roasted black cumin seeds in it.
• Crush the fried asafoetida stones into mortar and make small pieces of it.
• Add this crushed asafoetida into blender pot and blend together.
• If these fried garam masala is not blended into fine powder, then add coarse coriander powder in it and blend again.
• Mix these belnded spices with coriander powder really good.
• Add fried stone flower and bay leaves together in blender pot and blend.
• Mix with coriander powder really good.
• Add roasted poppy and sesame seeds with coconut into blender pot and blend nicely.
• These will release oil on blending. Mix them with coriander powder again.
• After mixing all spices together, blend the ready masala again in blender once more.
• This will assure mixing of all ingredients.
• Goda masala is already.
• You can store goda masala into an airtight container. It has shelf life of about 1-2 years.
Tips:
• Roast the spices on low to medium heat only.
• Stir the spices continuously while roasting to assure even roasting from all sides.
• Do not fry or roast the spices together. Fry or roast them separately
. • Also keep all the fried and roasted spices separately
. • No need to drain all the oil from spices after frying. Oil gives nice binding to masala.
• Cloves can pop out on your body while frying. So fry these carefully standing a little aside.