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Healthy Food Recipes - Thippili (Long Pepper) Rasam
Posted on: 02/Mar/2015 12:26:25 PM
Ingredients:
- Tamarind Pulp – 4 tbsp.
- Toor Dal – ¼ cup
- Red Chilli – 2 nos
- Garlic – 3 cloves
- Curry Leaves – a few
- Mustard seeds – ¼ tsp
- Oil – 1 tsp.
- Salt – to taste
- Asafoetida – a pinch
Roast & Grind:
- Channa Dal (or) Toor Dal – 1 tsp
- Black Pepper – ½ tsp
- Cumin Seeds – 1 tsp
- Coriander seeds – 1 tsp
- Thippili (Long Pepper) – 4 nos
Method of Preparation:
- Wash and soak Toor dal for about 15 minutes in water and pressure cook it for about 3 whistles.
- Either the cooked toor dal or else the dal cooked water is more than enough.
- Heat the pan and dry roast toor dal or channa dal and collect it separately.
- Then roast coriander seeds, black pepper, cumin seeds and Thippili slightly until you get the roasted smell and transfer it in a plate and allow it to cool.
- Grind all the roasted contents to a fine powder in a mixer.
- You can very well store this powder in an air tight container and use it whenever required.
- Heat the pan with a spoon of oil and add mustard seeds. Once it splutters add splinted red chilli, few curry leaves and minced garlic.
- Now add the tamarind extract and required salt to it.
- Boil well until the raw smell of the tamarind extract leaves and add the boiled toor dal (smashed) or only toor dal boiled water.
- Then add the already prepared Rasam powder (required quantity) and mix well.
- Add a pinch of asafoetida powder and allow it to boil for some time.
- Switch off the flame and transfer it to a bowl.
- Serve hot with Rice!
Tips:
- Thippili ranks top in curing cold and cough.
- Assists good digestion.
- Generally, we call ‘Sukku; Millagu; Thippili’ as ‘Tirukadagum’. Incorporating this three contents in our daily diets, boost our body immunity, by which we can lead a healthy life.
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
