- Onion -1 kg
- Garlic -100 gm
- Ginger -50 gm
- Curry leaves -handful
- Urad dhal -50 gm
- Mustard -25 gm
- Castor oil -25 ml
- Groundnut oil -25 ml
- Hing -15 gm
- Crystal salt -handful
- Turmeric -1 tsp heaped
Method
- Clean onion, remove skin, and cut head and tail. Crush garlic.
- Pound or crush onion in a mixie and put in the grinder
- Grind for 5 or 6 minutes
- Put grounded onion in a plastic container
- Dry roast and powder jeera and pepper
- Add salt, turmeric, hing, jeera and pepper, urad dhal, mustard seeds, and garlic.
- Wash ginger, curry leaves, dry on a towel
- Cut ginger and curry leaves to small pieces
- Heat groundnut oil and pour over onion, mix well
- Take a big tray, put a plastic cover on it
- Make a big ball of onion mixture and arrange one by one
- Keep in sunlight. after one or two days turn over. keep on doing this for 15 or 20 days until dry
- For the last 2 or 3 days brush castor oil nicely on each ball and dry again for another two days
- Preserve it in a plastic, pot or glass container.
Badaga gives a great flavour. I have watched my mom and other women joining together and preparing badaga once every year to last that whole year. Even though I am now overseas and dont cook authentic kannada food, I want to learn this and want to teach my daughter too. Thanks for posting this recipe.
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Agila.