Poondu Rasam / Garlic Rasam
Poondu Rasam / Garlic Rasam

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, poondu rasam / garlic rasam. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Poondu Rasam / Garlic Rasam is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Poondu Rasam / Garlic Rasam is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

Garlic rasam recipe with step by step photos. Garlic rasam also known as poondu rasam is a spicy, sour rasam tempered with garlic and spices. I make rasam on a regular basis and in this rainy cold weather, I prepare rasam often.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook poondu rasam / garlic rasam using 18 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Poondu Rasam / Garlic Rasam:
  1. Prepare 3 Tomato
  2. Prepare 1/2 cup toor dal cooked
  3. Prepare 200 ml Tamarind extract
  4. Take 200 ml water
  5. Take salt
  6. Take 3 cloves garlic
  7. Prepare 3 - 4 curry leaves
  8. Take coriander leaves chopped
  9. Make ready pinch asafoetida
  10. Get 2 tbsps Ghee
  11. Prepare 2 tbsps Toor dal
  12. Make ready 1 tbsp black peppercorns
  13. Get 5 - 6 chillies dry red
  14. Make ready 3 cloves garlic
  15. Prepare 1 tbsp cumin
  16. Take 3 - 4 curry leaves
  17. Make ready 1 tbsp ghee
  18. Get 1 tsp mustard seed

Poondu Rasam Recipe / Why Rasam should never be boiled for a long time? Garlic Rasam is one of the very common rasam recipes(with no rasam powder) we often make especially for for those cold rainy days pairing it with rice, rasam, paruppu thogayal and apalam which makes the best comforting lunch combo! One of the very few recipes I learnt while I started cooking. Garlic rasam or poondu rasam recipe south Indian rasam recipe with garlic cloves.

Instructions to make Poondu Rasam / Garlic Rasam:
  1. Finely chop the tomatoes. Peel the garlic cloves and separate them. Cook toor dal in pressure cooker or in microwave.
  2. Take a cooking pot, add the tomatoes, 3 garlic cloves, tamarind extract and water.
  3. Keep this pot on medium heat, add required amount of salt and few curry leaves.Allow them to boil
  4. Meanwhile, take a kadaai, keep it on medium heat, and roast all the ingrdients given under "roasting and grinding" (Except cumin) with 2 tbsps of ghee.
  5. Roast them until aromatic. Transfer this in a blender jar and add a tablespoon of cumin seeds and grind it to a coarse powder or a smooth paste, the choice is yours.
  6. Check if the tomatoes have cooked and the tamarind's raw smell should go.
  7. Now add the prepared powder or paste to the tomatoes. Stir it and allow it to steep in medium heat for 5 minutes. Add the cooked toor dal and mix.
  8. Get the tempering ready and add it to the rasam. Garnish it with finely chopped coriander leaves.

Garlic means poondu in Tamil, hence the name. This is a very flavorful and delicious rasam that tastes wonderful with mashed rice and ghee on a cold day. Add another cup of water to the Hmm…actually garlic is very interior TN Brahmin thingy, so I've heard. When I got married to A, he kept talking of Poondu rasam. Learn how to make Garlic rasam/Poondu rasam with pepper.

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