Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Pachai Rasam (rasam made without boiling/heating)

This is one of my favorite recipes, my grand mom loved this rasam and liked to have it with hot rice and coconut chutney (getti chutney). I follow the same :) . You can make this in no time and yet would be a very tasty rasam.

Ingredients
Small onions/Shallots - 2-3
Curry leaves
corriander leaves
tomato - 1 big
green chillies- 2-3 (depends on your spice level)
Tamarind - 1 small lemon size
Salt to taste

Soak the tamarind  in drinking water (use only drinking water for this rasam as we are not going to boil it). Peel , clean and crush the small onions, cut the tomatoes, green chillies, curry leaves and coriander leaves. All all these to the vessel containing the tamarind and mix it all together with your hand, crush all together , so the juice of onion, tomato, curry leaves, corriander leaves, and green chillies gets mixed. add required salt and mix, and add enough water. This is Pachai rasam. Have it with hot rice.

Note: Coconut chutney (getti chutney) is a good combination for this. One additional tip is , after making the coconut chutney (as it is getti chutney you would not add the water from  mixy jar to the chutney) , instead add the water into the pachai rasam, it will taste good.

Some you would hesitate to have raw stuff like onion, tomato, curry leaves, corriander leaves. You can boil this rasam and enjoy it, it will not change the taste much.

1 comment:

  1. Didn't believe until I had... Too cool! Keep them (recipes) coming

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