Easy pepper garlic rasam recipe
Easy pepper rasam with garlic. A natural remedy to make you feel better for common cold, etc.
Servings: 3
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon Black pepper
- 1 Red chilli
- 6 flakes Garlic
- 1 teaspoon Tamarind 1 small goose berry sized
- Salt - As per needed
To temper:
- 1 teaspoon Ghee
- ½ teaspoon Mustard
- 1 sprig Curry leaves
- 1 pinch Asafetida
Instructions
- Soak tamarind and extract the tamarind juice, keep aside. Crush the pepper and red chilli (also can grind in mixer) coarsely.
- Add the garlic(with skin) and crush them roughly.
- Heat a kadai and the items under the ‘To Temper’ table, followed by the quarter part of the crushed pepper and garlic and fry a little.
- Add the tamarind extract and bring to boil.
- Add the remaining crushed pepper and garlic and salt. mix well and switch off (don’t let boil)
Notes
- Do not boil the rasam, just switch off when it is about to start to boil.
- If you boil for long time as it may turn bitter.
- Also dont add more of pepper than mentioned and if you want more spicy, increase red chilli to 2-3 numbers.
- Don't grind garlic as it may turn the smell too strong and unpleasant. So just crush it.
- You can skip adding half the ground item for frying and half later and add everything later in boiling tamarind water itself.