Pages

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Milagu rasam

Up until a few days back, I had absolutely no intention of blogging about something as mundane as rasam. A question from my brother as to what went into the making of milagu rasam is what made me think that there are people out there who could use this recipe. Milagu rasam is usually made when someone at home suffers from cold or cough.....the pepper and cumin in it have curative properties and soothe the throat.

What you need:
Tamarind - a lemon sized amount, soaked in hot water and squeezed to extract pulp
Peppercorns - 3/4 tsp
Cumin seeds - 3/4 tsp
Ghee - 2 tsp
Curry leaves - a few
Salt
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

Heat a spoonful of ghee in a pan. Coarsely crush the cumin a pepper together using a pestle and mortar or in the blender. Fry this, along with the curry leaves,in ghee until aromatic and dark brown in colour.

Add tamarind extract to this. Add turmeric powder and salt. Let it boil until it is reduced to about 3/4th of the original quantity.

Add a cup of water and heat until it just starts to boil. Switch off heat. Heat a tsp of ghee in a small pan. Add some mustard seeds, broken red chillies and cumin seeds to it. When the seeds start to pop, pour it over the rasam.

Drink this hot or mix with hot rice.
Check out what my fellow marathoners Srivalli, Priya Suresh, Priya Vasu,Gayatri,Monika, PJ, Azeema,Usha, Ayeesha,Veena, Soumya and Reva are cooking.

12 comments:

veena said...

Love this rasam anytime:-)

Gayathri Kumar said...

Very comforting rasam..

Indian Khana said...

I also add tomato in my version...this looks slurrp ..

Umm Mymoonah said...

Piping hot rasam, looks very delicious.

MySpicyKitchen said...

Rasam, my all time favorite! Even I was contemplating if I should post a recipe on the blog or not.. it is such an easy recipe to make.

http://www.myspicykitchen.net

Unknown said...

I really feel like having a glass of that rasam..

Pari Vasisht said...

Hi. Every one has their own recipe and proportion of making this rasam and that's what is new about it. Looks delicious.
FOODELICIOUS

Priya Srinivasan - I Camp in My Kitchen said...

Need of this hour!!!! Me Sneezing here!!!!!:(

swapna said...

Love this anytime...very comforting!!

Priya Suresh said...

Yummy rasam, very comforting..

Gayu said...

Love this rasam...A very comforting one!!

G
http://ensamayalarangam.blogspot.com

Srivalli said...

Love pepper rasam anytime!