Fenugreek is one of the major ingredients that we use in our products

Inji Puli generates good saliva inside the body but can go bad if it touches the water while inside the jar! The handling of an open jar of Inji Puli is an important act to perform to increase the longevity and maturity of the spread. Inji Puli paste can go bad if it gets contaminated by water, even if little.

Inji Puli is a harmonious blend of five basic tastes such as (1) bitter (2) sweet (3) sour (4) salty and (5) hot. This unique combination follow Ayurvedic tradition to create a palatable herbal spread using a balance of ingredients that fits these categories.

It is very difficult understand the complexity of the taste of Inji Puli, a great recipe evolved in Kerala many thousand years who understood how to cook raw turmeric, raw ginger, ..

You might have noticed that Inji, the Malayalam word for Ginger has a striking similarity to the English pronunciations of Ginger! Ginger, like Turmeric is an amazing plant migrated from its original location, deep rain forests of Western Ghats in South India to all over the world.

Inji Puli in Malayalam language means Ginger Tamarind chutney, has been one of my most favorite condiment from Kerala for its unique  blend of  hot, lemony and sweet tastes. It is an amazing appetizer and wonderful aid in digestion and goes greatly with any of your cooked foods as a condiment. Carrie discovered that it is just right for Ice Cream! 

I have tasted Turmeric grown in different parts of India but am more familiar with the following five verities which are grown mainly in Kerala. Most of them are yellow in color but there are white and black turmeric which are less popular and cultivated less.