Ingredients:-
Small onions – 3 kgs.
Garlic – 1-2 kilo
Cumin seeds – 200 gms
Jheera – 200 gms
Somph – 150 gms
Fenugreek – 100 gms
Black gram dhal – 400 gms
Salt – 100 gms
Turmeric powder – 1/2 Teaspoon
Caster oil – 200 gms
Curry leaves – 1 Handful (cut very fine)
Method:-
Cut garlic and small onions into small pieces.
Grind garlic in the grinder to a fine paste. Cut onions and grind, mix well with the garlic and grind coarsely.
In an enamel or earthernware vessel mix the garlic and onion mixture with cummin seed, jeera, somph and fenugreek and salt and keep covered overnight.
Next day, grind the black gram dhal coarsely, sprinkle water and soak the dhal for 1 hour.
Mix the dhal, garlic – onion mixture, add curry leaves and turmeric powder, mix well.
Make big balls of the mixture and dry in the sun for a couple of days till quarter dry.
Then break the balls, mix 50 gms of castor oil and keep overnight.
Next day make small balls roll tight and keep in the sun.
After 2 days, take the remaining castor oil in your palms and roll each ball tight and dry them.
Keep doing this for a few days till all the castor oil is absorbed.
Dry well in the sun and store in jars.
