Veppam Poo Rasam | Neem Flower 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.
Servings: 4 people
Calories: 70kcal
Equipment
- Sauce Pan
- Heavy Bottomed Pan
Ingredients
- 1 small Tamarind Lemon Size
- 1 teaspoon Salt To Taste
- 4 Red Chili
For Tempering
- 1 teaspoon Ghee (Clarified butter)
- 1 teaspoon Mustard Seeds
- 1 tablespoon Neem Flower
- Few Curry Leaves
- 1 teaspoon Toor Dal
Instructions
Soaking Tamarind
- 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.
Nutrition
Serving: 1Cup | Calories: 70kcal | Carbohydrates: 13g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 1g