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RASAM | 'TIS THE SEASON

Ajwain/Caraway

Buttermilk Rasam
(Omam Mor)

Ingredients
• 4 cups buttermilk • 1/2 tsp rice
flour • 1/4 tsp gram flour/besan
• salt to taste
For tempering
• 1.5 tsp oil • 1 tsp ajwain • 1/2 tsp
mustard seeds • 1/6 tsp asafoetida
• 1/4 tsp toor dal • 1/4 tsp
fenugreek seeds • 1 dried red chilli
•2 green chillies, slit
• few curry leaves

Method
Whisk rice flour, gram flour, salt
and buttermilk well. Keep aside.
In a pan, heat oil. Add the ajwain
and the remaining ingredients
for tempering. Sauté well. Add
this tempering to the buttermilk
mixture. Now cook this till one
boil only.
Switch off the flame when the
buttermilk starts to get frothy. Drumstick Rasam (Murungakai)

Ingredients drumstick pieces from this water.
• 3 long and tender drumsticks • 1 small Now, using a spoon, scoop the flesh
lemon-sized tamarind ball • 2 tsp rasam from these drumsticks. Mash them well
powder • 1/2 tsp turmeric powder and set them aside.
• 1 tsp pepper cumin powder • 1.4 cup Add the tamarind extract to the water
cooked toor dal • 1 sprig curry leaves in which the remaining drumstick pieces
• salt to taste • jaggery for taste • 1/8 were cooked.
tsp asafoetida • fresh coriander leaves To this, add rasam powder, asafoetida,
for garnishing curry leaves, salt and jaggery.
For tempering Boil this well for a couple of minutes till
• 1 tsp oil + ghee • 1/2 tsp mustard the raw smell of tamarind goes away.
seeds • 1/4 tsp cumin seeds • a pinch of Add toor dal with 2 cups of water along
asafoetida with pepper cumin powder.
Finally, add mashed drumstick pulp and
Method turn off the flame once it starts to froth.
This rasam aids in digestion, Chop the drumsticks into 15 pcs of Garnish with coriander leaves.
acidity and a feeling of 2" each. Heat ghee + oil in a pan. Temper
bloating. Also had just after Cook these pieces in 3 cups of water with mustard seeds, cumin seeds and
recovery from fever with a pinch of salt & turmeric. Cook till asafoetida.
they become soft. Remove 6-7 cooked Pour over the hot rasam.

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