Gunpowder Spice Oil

Name: Gunpowder Spice Oil
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: about ¼ cup (80 ml)
Cuisine: Asian
Ingredients: 2 Tbsp toor/urad dry-roasted (20 g) Chickpeas; about 4 chiles (8 g) Dried Chile; 1 tsp (2 g) Cumin; 1 tsp (2 g) Pepper; 1 Tbsp (9 g) Sesame Seed; 2 cloves optional (10 g) Garlic; 3 Tbsp ghee melted (40 g) Butter; 1/2 tsp (3 g) Salt

Independent adaptation of a publicly published Vijay Kumar recipe. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Vijay Kumar.

CONDIMENT · DOSA, RICE & VEGETABLES

In the published recipe, this is the condiment for dosa.

Vijay Kumar's gunpowder spice oil for dosa.

On the jar

GUNPOWDER SP

Method: shake
Yield: about ¼ cup
Ingredients: 8

Stove sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ingredients

Chickpeas2 Tbsp toor/urad dry-roasted (20 g)
Dried Chileabout 4 chiles (8 g)
Cumin1 tsp (2 g)
Pepper1 tsp (2 g)
Sesame Seed1 Tbsp (9 g)
Garlic2 cloves optional (10 g)
Butter3 Tbsp ghee melted (40 g)
Salt1/2 tsp (3 g)

Method

Pour liquids to the printed fill-lines, bottom to top.
Cap the jar and shake until emulsified.

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Provenance

Vijay Kumar — published sauce recipes in the PantryFlex catalog. Michelin 1* (Semma); James Beard Best Chef: New York State 2025.

Adapted from a recipe published by Vijay Kumar in Semma gunpowder dosa finish oil.

FAQ

Can this go in a shake jar?

No. This one needs a blender or stove, so make it from this page. Jars only carry pour-and-shake sauces. Its companion jar is below.

What do the quantities mean?

This page lists the published recipe in household units (with metric in parentheses). On a jar, the printed lines, counts, and QR guide carry the jar-batch amounts. Follow the jar or this page, not a mix of both. Amounts in the jar’s ADD row are rounded to the nearest common spoon measure (T = tablespoon, t = teaspoon) so they can be read off the glass.

Where did this recipe come from?

Adapted from Semma gunpowder dosa finish oil (published as “Gunpowder Spice Oil”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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