Rasam
Rasam

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, rasam. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Rasam is a popular South Indian recipe that tastes just divine. If you want to make authentic rasam at home without rasam powder, we have just the recipe for you. The reason why you should make this south Indian rasam recipe is because it is.

Rasam is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Rasam is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook rasam using 19 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Rasam:
  1. Get 1 cup Split Pigeon pea/Toor dal/Arahar dal
  2. Take 1 liter Chicken stock or vegetable stock
  3. Prepare 2 tbsp Tamarind paste or a lemon size ball of tamarind
  4. Prepare 3 Ripe Tomatoes
  5. Take 2 Green Chillies
  6. Get 5 Whole Shallots
  7. Get 1 piece of ginger
  8. Prepare 5 clove Garlic
  9. Get 1 cup Boiled and Shredded Chicken Breast (Vegetarians substitute vegetables of your choice)
  10. Take 1 Spanish red Onion Diced
  11. Prepare 1 tbsp Coriander seeds
  12. Prepare 1 tsp Fenugreek seeds
  13. Make ready 1 tbsp Cumin seeds
  14. Get 1/2 tsp Asafoetida
  15. Take 1 tsp Turmeric Powder
  16. Get 2 tbsp Butter or Olive Oil
  17. Get 2 cup Steamed Rice
  18. Prepare 1/2 cup basil and coriander leaves combined
  19. Take 1 Salt and pepper to taste

Rasam (pronunciation (help · info)), or charu pani (in Odia), chaaru, saaru, saathamudhu, or kabir is a South Indian dish (eaten with other dishes or by itself). It is a spicy-sweet-sour stock traditionally prepared using kokum, tamarind, or dried green mango juice as a base along with jaggery, chili pepper, black pepper, cumin, tomato, and other spices as seasonings. Rasam is a South Indian soup made with a base of tamarind juice and added ingredients such as pepper, cumin, chili, lemon, lentils, and tomatoes, resulting in a tangy and sour flavor of the dish. The name of the dish can be literally translated to juice, referring to tomato or tamarind juices Rasam is a traditional broth that has healing properties ©Azra H/Shutterstock.com The humble rasam is a sour and spicy, centuries-old superfood, for a variety of reasons.

Steps to make Rasam:
  1. Wash the lentils well and soak it in water for 2-3 hrs.
  2. In a pressure cooker, add the soaked lentils, 2 cups of water, shallots, tomatoes, garlic, ginger, green chillies, asafoetida, tumeric and salt. Pressure cook until 3 whistles. Cool and transfer the contents to a blender and pureé the contents.
  3. Dry roast the spices except asafoetida in a pan. Cool and powder it in a coffee or spice grinder.
  4. Dissolve the tamrind paste in half cup of warm water. Keep it aside
  5. In a pot, add butter or olive oil. Heat it and add the chopped onions, sauté it well till it becomes brown and caramelised. Add the chicken breasts (or vegetables) and saute for another 2 mins. Add the lentil puree and chicken stock and bring it to boil for 30 minutes
  6. Add the tamarind water and simmer for another 10 minutes.
  7. Add 2 tablespoon full of the roasted spice powder and simmer it for another 10 minutes. Add Salt and pepper to taste
  8. Add the steamed rice to the broth and switch off the heat. Stir well.
  9. In a pan, add a tablespoon full of clarified butter. Heat it to smoking point and add a teaspoon of cumin seeds. Let them crackle. Add this to the broth
  10. Add coriander and basil leaves.
  11. Ladle hot soup into bowls. Serve hot

Considered a comfort food of South India, this soup-like, tangy flavoured broth, not only satiates the taste buds, but protects the body from various health issues. Rasam is the chicken soup (I make it vegan) of South India and a must in every household. A dash of spices is a quick pick me up anytime of the day and can be eaten with any curry or even an omelet. ~ a rasam recipe without rasam powder and without lentils. Rasam, more popularly known as charu, is an integral part of a traditional daily meal in telugu speaking homes. Rasam with rice is a comfort food that I grew up on and continues to be so even today.

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