Rasam means "juice". It can refer to any juice, but in South Indian households rasam commonly refers to soup prepared with sweet-sour stock made from tamarind, along with tomato and lentil, added spices and garnish. Rasam in Tamil and Malayalam, saaru in Kannada, or chaaru in Telugu means "essence" and, by extension, "juice" or "soup".
It is eaten with rice or consumed as a spicy soup. In a traditional South Indian meal, it can be part of a course that includes sambar rice and curd rice. Rasam has a distinct taste in comparison to the sambar due to its own seasoning ingredients and is fluid in consistency.
Here I have used 5 lentils in this rasam. Hence the name.
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5 Parrupu Rasam
Course : Soup
Cuisine : Indian
Prep time :10 minutes
Process time : 15minutes
Total time : 25 minutes
Ingredients:
Toor dal - 5 tsp
Chana dal - 5 tsp
Moong dal - 5 tsp
Jowar - 5 tsp
Field beans - 5tsp
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Cumin seeds -1 tsp
Pepper - 1 tsp
Coriander seeds - 1 tsp
Menthi seeds - 1/4 tsp
Coconut - 1/4 cup
Tamarind water - 1 cup
Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
Curry leaves - 1 string
Dried red chili - 5
Hing - 1 tsp
Palm sugar - 3 pieces
Salt -as per taste
Ground nut oil - 2 tsp
Instructions:
In a cooker, add toor dal, chana dal, moong dal, jowar and field beans, add water and cook them until all dals are soft, smash them well and keep aside. For faster dals to cook, soak them overnight.
In a pan add groundnut oil 1 tsp, add cumin seeds, pepper, coriander seeds, toor dal, menthi seeds and coconut and saute them for 1 minute. Once cool down, grind them into smooth paste.
Take tamarind in lemon size, extract the juice from it. Boil the tamarind juice with little turmeric powder and salt, until the raw smell goes from it.
Now add the cooked dal and spice paste into tamarind water and mix well. Cook them for 5 minutes.
Then add palm sugar. Mix.
Meanwhile take a pan add groundnut oil, add mustard seeds, once they are cracked down add curry leaves, dried red chili then Hing into it. Pour this into hot rasam.
Again bowl rasam until they get form around the corners and off the flame.
Serve hot with hot rice.
Grinding the masalas all is been done with amikkal(hand grinder), you can used the powder, to make your dish faster.
I have cooked the dishes in ROCKET STOVE, to know more about rocket stove, check out my old blog site, click the link below.
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https://youtu.be/VpTW1tJ8dZ8
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