Kokum Pepper Rasam

 Kokum Pepper Rasam recipe is given below with step by step photos. Kokum pepper rasam is a very tasty and easy to prepare healthy rasam made with dry kokum peels, black pepper corns, cumin seeds and garlic cloves and can be served with rice. 

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Kokum Pepper Rasam.

Ingredients:-

Dry Kokum Peels. -1/4 cup
Black pepper corn.-1tbsp
Cumin seeds.        -1tbsp
Turmericpowder.   -a pinch
Jaggery grated.    -1tbsp
Water.                   -3cup
Salt.                      -to taste

For Seasoning:-

Mustard seeds. -1/2 tsp
Cumin seeds.    -1/4 tsp
Dry red chilly.   -1broken into pieces.
Garlic cloves.    -3 crushed
Curry leaves.    -few
Oil.                   -1tsp

Instructions:-

1). Wash and soak dry kokum peels in 2 cups of warm water for 1hour to make it soft. Squeeze the soaked kokum peels in water and extract kokum juice and keep aside.

2). Heat a pan and dry roast black pepper corn and cumin seeds for 2 minutes on low flame. Crush the roasted pepper corn and cumin seeds together to a coarse powder. Keep aside the roasted and coarsely crushed pepper cumin powder.

3). Slightly crush garlic cloves with skin. Broke 1 dry red chilly into 2 pieces. Keep them on a plate along with few curry leaves.

Method:-

1). In a wide bottom pan pour the squeezed kokum juice. Add grated jaggery, required salt, a pinch of turmeric powder and 1cup of water into the pan. Mix well and boil on low flame.

2). Add roasted and crushed pepper cumin powder into the pan.

3). Mix well and boil the kokum rasam on low flame and switch off the flame.

4). Heat 1tsp oil in a small pan for seasoning and splutter mustard seeds and cumin seeds. Add slightly crushed garlic cloves with skin, broken dry red chilly pieces and few curry leaves into the pan and fry in oil. Switch off the flame.

5). Pour the above seasoning into the kokum rasam in the pan and mix well.

Very tasty, healthy, little sweet and little tangy Kokum Pepper Rasam is ready to serve hot with rice.