Veppam poo Rasam (Neem flower Rasam) is a delicious bitter rasam. A very healthy soup or rasam made with dried neem flowers. We make this special rasam on Tamil New Year's Day.
Veppampoo Rasam(Neem flower Rasam) is a delicious bitter rasam which we mainly prepare for Tamil New Year. 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? Neem is known for its therapeutic properties and has been used in Indian medicine since olden times. We can get dry neem flower in ayurvedic shops (Naattu Marundhu Kadai).
Neem Flower Benefits:
Neem is a popular medicinal herb widely used in Ayurvedic Medicine. Most parts of the Neem tree are awfully bitter, with the exception of its flowers. Flowers has a nice sweet smell. Neem Flowers is conventionally used to treat intestinal worms, nausea and belching. Its also used to treat skin problems. They’re often dry roasted and sprinkled on top of the dish to garnish as well. We refer Neem flower as Vepampoo in Tamil. We can get neem flowers as fresh, dried or in a powdered form. They’re used commonly in the South to cook a number of dishes: veppam poo sadam, add in raw mango pachadi and veppam poo rasam
Veppam poo Rasam (Neem flower Rasam) is a delicious bitter rasam. A very healthy soup or rasam made with dried neem flowers. We make this special rasam on Tamil New Year's Day.
Soak the tamarind in warm water for 10 mins and extract the juice
Tempering Process
In a pan, add ghee and fry the red chillies and add it to the tamarind juice and allow the tamarind extract to boil till the raw smell goes off. In a separate pan, heat some ghee and add mustard seeds, when the mustard seeds begins to sputter, add curry leaves, toor dal and fry for 10 seconds. Take this seasoned ingredients aside.
Garnishing Time!
In the same pan, then add veppampoo(Neem flower) till they turn golden brown color. Add 2 cups of water to tamarind mixture and salt to the rasam and add these tempered ingredients to the boiling rasam and when the rasam starts to boil, remove the rasam from the flame.
Serving Time!
Now the yummy Veppampoo Rasam(Neem flower Rasam) is ready to serve with hot rice. Its always better to eat this Rasam after few minutes of cooking, so that the aroma of neem flower mix with rasam.
Nutritional Info
Nutrition Facts
Veppam Poo Rasam | Neem Flower Rasam
Amount Per Serving (1 Cup)
Calories 70Calories from Fat 9
% Daily Value*
Fat 1g2%
Carbohydrates 13g4%
Protein 2g4%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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Instructions with Step by Step Pictures:
Soak the tamarind in water and extract the juice add thurdal and keep it in flame.
In a pan, add ghee and fry the red chillies and add it to the tamarind juice and allow the tamarind extract to boil till the raw smell goes off. In a separate pan, heat some ghee and add mustard seeds, when the mustard seeds begins to sputter, add curry leaves and fry for 10 seconds. Take this seasoned ingredients aside.
In the same pan, then add veppampoo(Neem flower) till they turn golden brown color. Add 2 cups of water and salt to the rasam and add these seasoned ingredients to the boiling rasam and when the rasam starts to boil, remove the rasam from the flame.
Now the yummy Veppampoo Rasam(Neem flower Rasam) is ready to serve with hot rice. Its always better to eat this Rasam after few minutes of cooking, so that the aroma of neem flower mix with rasam.
You can try in naatu marundhu kadai. generally we get it from neighbours who have neem trees. but now with lots of apartments we can find it rare. you can try temples they will surely have or idea of where we can have
tasty
Healthy and easy preparation. Thanks..
Healthy and easy preparation
anyone know how to get rid of mud from veppamboo? I brought some from india and can't get it here. Realized its got sand particles 🙁
Hi, You can just soak the flowers in the water and the sand gets settled at the bottom
when do we add salt!!
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Any idea where we can get been flower in Chennai? A lot of stores have stopped stocking it.
You can try in naatu marundhu kadai. generally we get it from neighbours who have neem trees. but now with lots of apartments we can find it rare. you can try temples they will surely have or idea of where we can have
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