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Healthy Gooseberry rasam recipe / Amla rasam / Nellika rasam recipe / Immunity drink recipe /Quick rasam recipes with detialed instruction and step by step photos. Nellika rasam is a spicy and tangy rasam recipe. Amla or Indian gooseberries are rich in antioxidants and are excellent sources of vitamin C and vitamin E. This indian berry has so many health benefits hence this amla berries are used in Ayurveda madicine for many years now. There are lots of dish based on this amla, like amla (nellika in tamil) pickle, amla chutney, raitha and many. Healthy gooseberry rasam is one of the simple recipes from Tamilnadu cuisine. there are many variety of rasam recipes and each household had their own recipe for making rasam.
Rasam is South Indian dish made from tamarind, tomato, pepper, cumin/jeera, garlic and hing as the main ingredient. These are the basic ingredient used in any rasam, this is usually had with rice or just like soup. I had adaptaed this gooseberry rasam recipe from a old tamil magazine.
About the gooseberry Rasam recipe / Amla rasam
- Rasam is one of the staple food in South Indian households, Mainly in Tamilnadu. There are so many varieties rasam are made. The consistency of the rasam is something similar to soup and also it slightly taste like a soup hence it can also be served as soup. Rasam helps in digestion and also it helps to cure mild cold and cough. Tomato rasam, Garlic rasam, Lemon rasam are few popular rasam recipes
- My mom makes different rasam however i do not make it daily. Usually my mom makes a big batch of rasam powder and store it, and the same she makes for me too. But today i had shared rasam without ready made powder. I used whole spices in it. I had already posted instant garlic rasam with instant rasam powder, You can also check that
- Serve Gooseberry rasam with hot white rice or serve it like a soup as this rasam has all the immunity boosting properties it
NOTES
- You can skip cooked toor dal in this recipe
- If your using store bought rasam powder then skip adding pepper corn. cumin, toor dal
- This rasam recipe does not require tamarind so do not add it.
- Do not boil the rasam for long time
Healthy Gooseberry rasam recipe / Amla rasam
Ingredients
To make rasam
- 1 tsp Pepper corns
- 1 tsp Cumin / Jeera
- 1 tsp Toor dal
- 1 spring Curry leaves
- 1 inch Ginger optional
- 1 medium size Tomato ripen
- 4 Gooseberries / amla
- 1 tbsp Cooked and mashed toor dal
- Salt
- 1 cup Water
- 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder
- Few Coriander leaves
To temper
- 2 tsp Ghee / Oil
- 1/2 tsp Mustard seeds
- 1/2 tsp Cumin / Jeera
- 3-4 Garlic cloves
- 1 Dried red chili
Instructions
- Heat a kadai or pan and dry roast the pepper corns. cumin, curry leaves, ginger and toor dal for 3-4 minutes ( If adding ready made rasam powder then skip this step )
- Now add Chopped tomato and chopped gooseberries/ amala and saute it for 3-4 minutes
- Switch of the flame and once it cool downs completely add it to mixer jar and blend it to slightly coarse puree
- Now heat a kadai and add the blended tomato puree and add 1 cup water
- Now add cooked and smashed dal to it and mix
- Now add salt and turmeric powder and mix well and bring it to boil and switch of the flame and add coriander leaves
To temper the gooseberry rasam
- Heat a tadka pan or kadai with ghee or oil add mustard seeds once it splutters, add garlic and red chili and saute it for 1-2 seconds and add hing and add this tempering to the rasam
- Serve it hot with rice
Notes
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