Pepper Garlic Rasam

Pepper Garlic Rasam is a tasty and healthy rasam made with black pepper, garlic, tomato and other ingredients. Pepper garlic Rasam is a delicious rasam goes well with rice and a good remedy for cold, throat infection etc.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Pepper Garlic Rasam.

Ingredients:-

Tomato.                 - 3
Garlic cloves.        - 9
Black Pepper.        -1 and 1/2 tsp
Tamarind.              - a gooseberry size
Turmeric powder. - 1/2tsp
Coriander leaves.  - a bunch
Salt.                       -to taste
Cooking oil           -2tbsp
Mustard seeds.      -1/2tsp
Cumin seeds.        -1/2tsp
Curry leaves.        -1spring
Hing powder.        -1tsp

Instructions:-

1. Wash and chop Tomatoes into small pieces and keep aside.

2. Crush the Black pepper using mortar and pestle and keep aside.

3. Peel and chop Garlic cloves into small pieces and keep aside.

4. Soak Tamarind in 1cup of little hot water for 5 minutes and extract theTamarind juice and keep aside.

5. Clean, wash and finely chop the Coriander leaves and keep aside.

Method:-

1. Heat oil in a wide bottom pan and splutter Mustard seeds and Cumin seeds and saute well.

2. Add chopped Garlic pieces and saute well for few seconds.

3. Add Curry leaves and saute well.

4. Add chopped Tomato pieces and saute well for 2 minutes.

5. Add Hing powder and Turmeric powder and saute well.

6. Add the extracted Tamarind juice and 2 cup of water. Mix well and boil for 2 minutes.

7. Add required Salt and mix well. Add crushed Black Pepper and stir well. 

8. Cover the pan with a lid.Boil and cook for 10 minutes on low flame.

9. Add chopped Coriander leaves and saute for a second. Switch off the flame.

10. Transfer the pepper Garlic Rasam to a serving bowl.

A tasty and healthy Pepper Garlic Rasam is ready to serve hot with Rice.