Garlic Rasam Recipe | Poondu Rasam | Easy Rasam Recipes

Another rasam recipe added to my collections. Among all rasam recipes, garlic rasam helps us for better digestion. Just like the saying "let food be the medicine and medicine be the food". It has lots of medicinal properties. It also reduces our blood pressure and improves our cholesterol level. Addition of garlic to foods increases our lifetime too.

Garlic Rasam

Recipe Cuisine: South Indian | Recipe Category: Rasam

Prep Time: 5 mins | Cooking Time: 10 mins | Serves: 3 

Ingredients:

Tamarind - gooseberry sized

Tomato - 1

Coriander leaves - to garnish

To grind:

Black pepper - 1 tsp

Cumin seeds - 1 tsp

Garlic - 10

To temper:

Ghee - 1 tblspn

Asafoetida - a generous pinch

Red chilli - 2

Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

Curry leaves - 1 sprig

Salt - to taste

Method:

Soak tamarind in warm water and extract its juice. 

Squeeze a tomato into the tamarind extract and add enough salt to taste.

In a blender, take garlic, cumin and black pepper and grind it coarsely.

Melt some ghee in a hot pan, add in mustard seeds. Once mustard seeds begin to crackle, add in red chilli and asafoetida.

Add in ground garlic pepper paste, curry leaves and saute for a min to remove its raw smell.

Now, add the tamarind extract and reduce the flame to low. When it begins to froth garnish with coriander leaves and put off the flame.

 

Pictorial:

Keep all your ingredients ready

Take black pepper, garlic and cumin in a blender. Grind it to a coarse paste.

Soak tamarind in warm water and extract its juice

Squeeze a tomato into the tamarind juice and add enough salt

Heat a pan, add little ghee. When it is melted, add mustard seeds

Once mustard seeds start to crackle, add in red chilli. Wait till it changes color.

Add in asafoetida

and the coarsely ground pepper garlic paste. Saute for a min

Add in curry leaves

Now, add the tamarind extract which we prepared and simmer it

When it begins to form froth on the top, add coriander leaves and put off the flame

Serve hot!