BADAGA RECIPE

Ingredients

1. Onion              -1 kg
2. Garlic              -100 gm
3. Ginger             -50 gm
4. Curry leaves    -handful
5. Urad dhal        -50 gm
6. Mustard           -25 gm
7. Castor oil        -25 ml
8. Groundnut oil -25 ml
9. Hing                -15 gm
10. Crystal salt      -handful
11. 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.