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Kollu Rasam
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Kollu Rasam | Horsegram Rasam Recipe

Healthy, nutrition rich rasam! Kollu (Horsegram) is a diet friendly pulse. Kollu helps in weight loss. Hot and spicy kollu rasam is a treat to our taste buds! Perfect with hot steam rice or served as Soup! Learn here how to make this Kollu Rasam with step by step pictures, instructions and video!
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Total Time30 minutes
Course: Rasam
Cuisine: Indian, Tamilnadu
Servings: 4 people
Calories: 10kcal
Author: Sowmya Venkatachalam

Equipment

  • Pressure Cooker
  • Sauce Pan
  • Heavy Bottomed Pan

Ingredients

  • 1 gooseberry Size Tamarind
  • ½ Cup Kollu (Horsegram)
  • 1 chopped Tomato
  • 1 teaspoon Peppercorns
  • 1 teaspoon Cumin Seeds
  • 3 cloves Garlic
  • 1 Pinch Asafoetida (Asafetida / Hing)
  • 1½ teaspoon Salt Adjust as needed
  • Few Curry Leaves

For Tempering

  • 1 teaspoon Ghee (Clarified butter)
  • 1 teaspoon Mustard Seeds
  • Few Curry Leaves

Instructions

Soaking Tamarind

  • Soak tamarind in warm water for 10 mins and then squeeze out to extract tamarind juice.

Cooking Horsegram (Kollu)

  • Wash kollu and a cup of water and pressure cook for 3-4 whistles. Take the cooked kollu and strain the cooked water and keep it aside. We can use the cooked kollu to make sundal

Grinding Process

  • Take garlic , pepper and cumin seeds in a mortar and pestle and mash it coarsely. Or we can take it in a mixer and grind it to a coarse paste without adding water

Boiling Tamarind

  • In a sauce pan, add tamarind juice along with asafoetida, salt, coarsely ground pepper-cumin-garlic paste, tomato and curry leaves and keep in medium flame and allow the tamarind extract to boil for 5 mins to get rid off raw smell.
  • Now, add cooked Kollu Water along with plain water to adjust the tangy taste of tamarind. Then keep in flame until a frothy layer forms on top. Do not allow the rasam to boil.

Tempering Process

  • In a pan, heat ghee. Add mustard seeds and allow it to sputter. Add curry leaves and switch off the flame. Add this tempering to the rasam.

Serving Time

  • Serve the delicious Rasam with hot steaming rice and enjoy the healthy rasam.

Nutrition

Serving: 1ladle | Calories: 10kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 1g