Recipe for Red Coconut Masala

Ingredients (11)

• 1/4 cup grated coconut: fresh, frozen or desiccated (least preferred form)
• 5 dry red Kashmiri chilies
• 1" piece of ginger
• 2 tsp of garlic paste or minced garlic
• 3 cloves
• 1" piece of cinnamon
• 3 pods of green cardamom (seeds removed to be used and skins discarded)
• 1/4 tsp. cumin powder
• 1/4 tsp. coriander powder
• 1/4 tsp. sound/ fennel seeds
• A pinch of nutmeg