Monday

Sweet Rasam-Cooking with Pedatha series.


What do you do when everyone is sick at home? Make Chicken Soup.. but being a vegetarian home, you either make tomato soup or hot and spicy rasam. Maharahstrian homes hardly made Rasam, we always made saar..tomato che saar and bhat/rice is an ideal lunch for a person who is little under weather. After coming here and having mingled with people outside my home state Maharashtra, my taste buds have changed drastically. We love South Indian food. And have adopted many traditional recipes and twisted and tweaked to our liking. This is one such classic from Cooking With Pedatha series. I have tweaked this recipe to my liking and added the rasam powder which is not added in the original recipe. This surely relived my cold and cough and got me my voice back,,maybe a little hoarse still People could hear me out.

You will need;
5-6 cups water
1 tbspn- Cooked Toor/arhar dal-
1 tbspn-Tamarind paste
1tbspn jaggery
1 tsp Ginger paste
1 tsp Garlic paste
1/2 tsp black pepper powder
1/2 tbspn Cumin/jeera seeds
Corriander chopped for garnish
1 tspn ghee
salt to taste

Tadka/Tempering
1/2 tsp Mustard/rai seeds
1/2 tsp cumin seeds
1/2 tsp Hing/Asafoedita

Cook the dal in  a pressure cooker and mash it well.Take the water in a deep vessel and mix all the above ingredients except the tempering, corriander leaves and ghee and bring it to  a boil. allow it simmer for 10 minutes. Add the ghee and pop the mustard, add in the cumin and hing, let it sizzle and then add the tempering to the water mixture and again boil it for 5 minutes. Add the cilantro and serve hot.

** I added one tbsp MTR Rasam powder to the water when I added in the other ingredients.



We enjoyed this sweet rasam with hot steaming white rice and few sneezes and little coughs in between. Even my kids gave this a big thumbs up.

 


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13 comments:

Manasi said...

Aaaww, sorry to hear u guys are under the weather :(
Take care, drink up the awesome rasam ( hey, that rhymes! ) and get well soon!

Ms.Chitchat said...

Piping hot rasas with steamy rice drives away sickness. Ur rasam looks very tempting and made me make some for dinner now :):) lovely click too..

Aarthi said...

They look delicious..Thanks for posting it dear..

Aarthi
http://yummytummy-aarthi.blogspot.com/

Square Meals said...

Looks absolutely comforting.
Rasam is such a versatile dish, you can make one for every day of the week :-).

Aparna from Square Meals

Achu's Amma's Kitchen said...

Rasam looks yummy....i feel to eat hot rasam with rice yummmyyy

Sudha said...

I love having Rasam and the sour tang is what I love most!Your sweet Rasam sounds like a delicious idea,dear!The chill has really taken upon you and you seem to be suffering for quite some time - I guess the dank weather is adding to that:(Hope you get well soon and be up and running.Have a nice week ahead:)

Priya Suresh said...

Super comforting rasam..

Unknown said...

i see that u r having lots of fun with the book!...i am glad u r enjoying it so much!...rasam is my fav...i like to have it just as u have it in ur click..hot hot in a cup!

Sensible Vegetarian said...

Super comforting rasam, would love to drink the whole glassful.

Torviewtoronto said...

healthy and flavourful rasam
Ash hope you can join the tea time snack event

roses said...

Absolutely comfort food...
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Seema said...

Wow...yummy...thanks for sharing.

Umm Mymoonah said...

I totally agree with you, this is a good treatment for cold and cough. Thank you for linking with Any One Can Cook :)