Black Garlic Rasam (Soup)

Name: Black Garlic Rasam (Soup)
Total time: 1200 s
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1/2 cup Split toor dal; 1 tbsp Coconut oil; 1 tsp Mustard; 1 tsp Fennel; 3 Chili dry red; 1 tbsp Crushed ginger; pinch solid hing; 1/4 cup curry leaves; 1/2 tsp turmeric powder; 1 cup Tomato slices; 1 Whole black garlic; 2 tbsp Rasa powder; 1/4 cup Coriander leaves, finely chopped; as required Salt

Lakshmi Sridharan Ph D @cook_19872338

USA

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Rainy days-cold, cough; and fever what not Black garlic rasam will keep all these health problems at bay. White garlic becomes black garlic through Maillard reaction, the color, taste and smell of garlic change. Not spicy, sweet, even those who don't like the smell of garlic will love it. Many benefits-anti-inflammatory, blood sugar control, anti-cancer, good for heart. All the ingredients in this recipe have these benefits. Tomatoes are from my garden. Loaded with healthy nutrition’s, aroma, beautiful color, flavor and etc. Drink it and feel good.

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Lakshmi Sridharan Ph D @cook_19872338

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Ingredients

20 mins

6 servings

1/2 cupSplit toor dal
1 tbspCoconut oil
1 tspMustard
1 tspFennel
3Chili dry red
1 tbspCrushed ginger
pinchsolid hing
1/4 cupcurry leaves
1/2 tspturmeric powder
1 cupTomato slices
1Whole black garlic
2 tbspRasa powder
1/4 cupCoriander leaves, finely chopped
as requiredSalt

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Steps

20 mins

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I prepared rasa powder by roasting dals, coriander seeds, chillies, fenugreek seeds, cumin seeds and pepper. Please refer to my recipe in cookpadcom tamil community
Soak hing in ¼ cup boiling water to dissolve in water
Cook toor dal in a bowl with 4 cups of water in a pressure cooker. While dal is cooking, attend to the rest of chores,
Add mustard seeds to hot oil in a heavy saucepan over medium flame. After mustard seeds splutter add cumin seeds, chilies, turmeric powder, ginger curry leaves
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Stir in tomatoes, continue cooking until tomato gets soft and the raw smell fgoes away, about 4 minutes. Remove outer skin of garlic; Crush the cloves. Add crushed garlic cloves. Add 6 cups of water and bring to a boil.
Add the cooked dal with water. Bring it to boil on high flame for 10 minutes;
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Mix 2 tablespoons of rasa powder in 1 cup of hot water, add it to the rasam and mix well. Continue cooking for 4-5 minutes, add salt, hing and mix. Turn off the stove. Add cilantro. The whole house will be filled aroma transfer it to a serving bowl. You may fill up a glass with rasam and drink it. Or mix with rice and eat.
Drink to boost your immunity

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Lakshmi Sridharan Ph D @cook_19872338

on August 04, 2022 21:58

USA

I am a scientist with a Ph.D from University of Michigan. Ann Arbor. I also have a M. SC from University of Madras. Enjoy sharing my knowledge in science and my experience in gardening and cooking with others. I am a free lance writer, published several articles on Indian culture, traditions, Indian cuisine, science of gardening and etc in National and Inernational magazines. I am a health food nut. I am passionate about photography