Subbus Kitchen

Veppampoo Rasam(Neem flower Rasam) is a delicious bitter rasam which we mainly prepare for Tamil New Year. This is an exclusive Tamilian recipe. Neem is extensively used in Indian Ayurvedic/ unani medicine. If such a wonderful flower can be used to make a tastier rasam then what could be better ever?

Ingredients:

For Seasoning:

• Soak the tamarind in water and extract the juice and keep it aside
• In a pan, pour the tamarind water and add salt, rasam powder, hing and stir it well
• Boil the above ingredients by keeping the flame in medium low till the raw smell of rasam powder goes off.
• In a separate pan, heat some ghee and add mustard seeds, when the mustard seeds begins to sputter, add broken red chilli and veppampoo(Neem flower)
  and fry until it turns brown color.
• Add these fried ingredients to the boiling rasam and remove the rasam from the flame.
• Now the yummy Veppampoo Rasam(Neem flower Rasam) is ready to serve with hot rice.