Milagu Jeeraga Rasam | Milagu Rasam

Name: Milagu Rasam | Pepper Rasam
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 15 min
Ingredients: 1 gooseberry size Tamarind; ¼ tsp Turmeric Powder; ¼ tsp Asafoetida (Asafetida / Hing); 1 tsp Salt (adjust to your taste); 2 tsp Peppercorns; 1 tsp Cumin Seeds; 1 tsp Ghee (Clarified butter) ((or oil)); 1 tsp Mustard Seeds; 1 sprig Curry Leaves

Posted on Jan 23rd, 2009

by Sowmya Venkatachalam

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4.84 from 6 votes

A Traditional & Healthy Rasam which tastes yummy with a hot steamed rice and a spoon of ghee. It's loaded with flavor of Pepper and Jeera. It's a comforting rasam which has lot of medicinal values.

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

Total Time 15 minutes

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Milagu Jeeraga Rasam is a traditional and healthy rasam made using pepper and cumin seeds. It’s a great remedy for cold and sore throat. It’s loaded with the flavor of Jeera and Pepper and has good medicinal values. This can be served with hot steaming rice and a spoon of ghee.

There are few different variations of the Milagu Rasam can be made.

Adding a spoon of Toor Dal and 1 Red chilli to the grinding ingredients – We can fry the toor da, red chili and pepper in a teaspoon of ghee and grind it to a powder along with Jeera. This powder can be further added to the tamarind juice.
We can also add Garlic to the Rasam – We can crush 2-3 garlic and add it to the tamarind juice and allow it to boil along with the tamarind juice.

I am giving here the very plain basic Milagu Rasam that i make often in my home. We can even serve this healthy rasam as a starter soup.

If you like this Milagu Jeeraga Rasam, then you can also try other home remedy Rasam Recipes

Jeeraga Rasam | Jeera Rasam | Cumin Seeds Rasam – What better way to enjoy the rainy / chill day with cup of hot Jeera Rasam. Jeera Rasam or Cumin Rasam is a Indian soup that has a rich flavor of cumin.
Kandathippili Rasam | Long Pepper Rasam – Kandathippili Rasam is a popular traditional rasam made using Thippili (Indian Long Pepper). Kandathippili has lot of medicinal properties.
Poondu Rasam(Garlic Rasam) – Poondu Thippili Rasam is made using Arisi Thippili (Long Pepper), Kanda Thippili (roots of the Long Pepper) and Poondu (Garlic). It’s one of the very healthy rasam with lot of medicinal properties.

Recipe card to make Milagu Jeeraga Rasam

Instructions with step by step pictures

Soak tamarind in warm water for 5 mins and extract the juice

Take Peppercorns and Cumin Seeds in a mixer jar and grind it to a powder and keep it aside. We can grind large quantity of peppercorns and cumin seeds and store it in air-tight container and use it whenever we want

In a sauce pan, add tamarind juice along with salt, turmeric powder, Ground Pepper-Cumin Powder and asafoetida and boil the tamarind juice till the raw smell of the tamarind goes off.