When you wake up in the morning to the sounds of birds and soft sunlight, you begin to think how your day will unfold. You can hear your amma cooking in the kitchen to songs from the old radio and smell the steaming of idli’s in the cooker. You wonder think how many you’ll eat today. Reminiscing about how you never liked idli as a child and only a good podi would convince you to eat it, you wake up and walk to your kitchen to see the sight of your mom cooking.

She smiles at you and gestures to get the table prepared. You do so and call the rest of your family to have breakfast together. Just as you’re about to eat, you get a whiff from the idli kharam podi packet kept next to you and you realise that just a little bit of this podi will brighten up the morning breakfast in seconds. You add a little to your plate and mix it with oil. The right amount of spice and flavour hits your tongue and idli suddenly tastes all the more wonderful.

Beginning to think about all the other things you can eat this podi with, you get excited and ask amma if she made it home because it tastes just like the one from your childhood. She laughs and denies. She says she got it from a new company called Vedas that makes podis and Pickles that taste just like the ones made at home. You wonder what is it that adds the taste of home to something.

This idli karam podi is made specifically to be had with idli and a little ghee or oil.

Made with four different kinds of pulses, that are first roasted and then ground, this powder has a high level of protein