Garlic Rasam Recipe with step by step pictures. Poondu Rasam Recipe is a quick and easy to make rasam recipe that is rich in garlic and pepper flavor. It is very soothing for the throat especially when we are under cold.
Garlic Rasam Recipe
You all know that i love making rasam for my meals, because i love the simplicity of it and the fresh taste it brings to the meals. Since it is so hot here, i am not feeling like cooking anything, i just want to hit the kitchen like a storm. So i love to make rasam since it is so easy and take just less than 15 mins to make. I accompany some poriyal with it. Check out the rasam recipes and poriyal recipes which i posted in this blog.
About Garlic Rasam Recipe (Poondu Rasam)
This rasam is a kind of special one because it has freshly roasted and ground spices in it. Since the dominant flavour is garlic, i love to add a good amount of garlic in it. The roasted spices and the fried garlic makes this poondu rasam so flavourful and yummy. I have a version of tomato garlic rasam which i will post soon. Hope you will try it and let me know what you think.
Ingredients for Garlic Rasam Recipe (Poondu Rasam Recipe)
- Oil - 1 tbsp
- Garlic - 10 cloves chopped
- Mustard Seeds / Kaduku - 1 tsp
- Dry Red Chilli - 2 broken
- Tamarind Pulp - 2 tablespoon ( Click here for recipe )
- Water - 4 to 5 cups
- Salt to taste
- Coriander Leaves - for garnishing
For Roasting and Grinding:
- Oil - 1 tsp
- Split Channa Dal / Kadala Paruppu - 1 tbsp
- Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 1 tsp
- Whole Pepper - 1 tsp
- Dry Red Chilli - 4
- Coriander Seeds / Malli - 2 tbsp
How to Make Garlic Rasam Recipe (Poondu Rasam Recipe)
- Heat 1 teaspoon of oil, add in all the roasting ingredients and roast it for 5 mins on medium heat till golden.
- Remove it to a mixer and pour some water. Grind it into a smooth paste. Set aside.
- Now Heat 1 tablespoon oil in the same kadai. Add in chopped garlic and fry for a min or two till light golden.
- Remove this to a small dish and set aside.
- Now in the same garlic flavored oil. Add in mustard seeds and dry chilli and saute for a min.
- Now add in water, tamarind pulp, salt and mix well.
- Bring it to a boil and boil it for 2 mins.
- Now add in the ground masala, fried garlic pieces and mix well.
- Bring this to a boil and simmer for 8 to 10 mins.
- Garnish with coriander leaves and serve with rice.
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Garlic Rasam Recipe | Poondu Rasam Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon Oil
- 10 cloves Garlic chopped
- 1 teaspoon Mustard Seeds / Kaduku
- 2 broken Dry Red Chilli
- 2 tablespoon Tamarind Pulp
- 4 to 5 cups Water
- Salt to taste
- Coriander Leaves - for garnishing
- For Roasting and Grinding:
- 1 teaspoon Oil
- 1 tablespoon Split Channa Dal / Kadala Paruppu
- 1 teaspoon Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam
- 1 teaspoon Whole Pepper
- 4 Dry Red Chilli
- 2 tablespoon Coriander Seeds / Malli
Instructions
- Heat 1 teaspoon of oil, add in all the roasting ingredients and roast it for 5 mins on medium heat till golden.
- Remove it to a mixer and pour some water. Grind it into a smooth paste. Set aside.
- Now Heat 1 tblspn oil in the same kadai. Add in chopped garlic and fry for a min or two till light golden.
- Remove this to a small dish and set aside.
- Now in the same garlic flavoured oil. Add in mustard seeds and dry chilli and saute for a min.
- Now add in water, tamarind pulp, salt and mix well.
- Bring it to a boil and boil it for 2 mins.
- Now add in the ground masala, fried garlic pieces and mix well.
- Bring this to a boil and simmer for 8 to 10 mins.
- Garnish with coriander leaves and serve with rice.
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Garlic Rasam Recipe Step by Step
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| Take all your ingredients |
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| Ingredients for roasting and grinding |
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| Heat a teaspoon of oil |
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| Add all the whole spices and roast |
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| Take it in a blender |
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| Pour some water in |
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| Make it into a smooth paste |
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| Heat some more oil |
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| Add in chopped garlic cloves |
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| Fry till lightly coloured |
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| Remove to a small dish |
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| In the remaining flavoured oil |
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| Add seasoning ingredients |
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| Roast a little |
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| Pour some water |
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| Add in tamarind pulp |
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| Mix well |
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| Add salt |
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| Bring to a boil |
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| Add the ground masala |
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| Add in fried garlic pieces |
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| Mix well |
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| Simmer for a while |
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| Garnish with coriander leaves |
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| Serve |
Priya Yallapantula
wow, delicious, I love Garlic Rasam 🙂
Roshu
Good one dear
ABD
Rasam looks so appetizing. I am going to give it a try. Tell me something can I just slurp it like a soup or do I need to eat it with rice?
Aarthi
@ABDYou can have it as a soup but it taste great when had with rice..
Mrs. Monika Edwin
I dont have coriander seeds at home only powder any optional
Aarthi
@Mrs. Monika Edwinyou can use coriander powder
sarita
Thnaks Aarthi,love you for so beautifully demonstrating it with pictures.Being a north Indian Rasams always have remained an enigma to me. This would help big time. thanks again.
Daz
Sorry having a bit of a moment! What is Rasam? Is it a stock, a gravy, in between?
Anonymous
Hey! The staple food of most people in South India is rice, owing to the sheer amount that grain is cultivated here. But, as you well know, simple boiled rice is a bit...bland! Ergo, people make a relatively spice-filled stock with vegetables or lentils and so on, and add it to rice in order to enjoy their meal. It is for this reason that you'll find names like Rasam or Sambhar or Kootu in South Indian cuisine which are very difficult to explain! These are merely another dish that you make and mix with rice, which you then gobble up! 😀
Don't be put you off, though. Some of these dishes are positively brimming with spices and they're utterly yummy. Do try something that doesn't scare you off because of the unpronounceable and hard-to-get ingredients! And, adjust the quota of chillies (either red or green, depending on what the recipe calls for) according to your taste. You might just find something you like! Good luck!