If you start with whole spices and peppers, dry roast them in a heavy pan until they start to smell great (leave the basil, ground spices and salt out). Then throw everything into a clean coffee grinder, an grind into a uniform powder. The recipe will make 3 batches of Misir Wot (spiced lentil mush). (See recipe for "Misir Wot".) Philly Markowitz CHILE-HEADS ARCHIVES From the Chile-Heads recipe list. Downloaded from Glens MM Recipe Archive, G Internet.