First time when heard this recipe from my MIL, I was amazed and immediately got up and tried this dish in my kitchen. It turned out a big hit in my home. The flavour of baby onions with rasam spice powder gives a yummy taste to the dish. Mix this yummy Vengaya Rasam (Baby Onion rasam) rice with hot boiled rice and with a teaspoon of ghee makes us have more and more!
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| Vengaya Rasam Recipe | Onion Rasam Recipe |
Preparation and Yield:
| Preparation time | 10 mins |
| Cooking Time | 30 mins |
| Servings | 5 |
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| Vengaya Rasam Recipe | Onion Rasam Recipe |
Ingredients:
| Baby Onions / Shallots | 1 Cups* |
| Tamarind | 1 gooseberry size |
| Rasam Powder | 1 teaspoon |
| Salt | To taste |
| Garlic Cloves | 5 |
| Green Chillies | 2 |
| Tomato | 2 |
| Salt | To taste |
| Chopped Coriander Leaves | 1 tablespoon |
* 1 Cup Capacity = 250ml
| Ghee | 2 teaspoon |
| Mustard Seeds | 1 teaspoon |
| Curry Leaves | few |
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| Vengaya Rasam Recipe | Onion Rasam Recipe |
Method:
- Soak the tamarind in water and extract the juice.
- Peel the baby onions (Shallots) and take 1/4 cup separately for grinding. Add the shallots, green chillies and garlic cloves to the mixer. Grind it to a nice paste.
- Heat a pan and add a teaspoon of ghee and saute the shallots. Add a pinch of salt while sauting which will enable the onions to cook quickly, When the shallots are transparent, add the ground mixture(shallots+green chillies+garlic Paste) to the pan and mix well and allow it to boil in low flame till the raw smell of the shallots goes off. Then add chopped tomatoes and allow it to cook completely
- Then add the tamarind extract along with salt and allow it to boil for 5 minutes to get rid of the tamarind smell. Then add the rasam powder and keep the rasam in low flame and allow it to boil till the raw smell of the rasam powder goes off
- Adjust the water level and finally garnish with coriander leave and when the rasam starts to boil, remove the rasam from flame. Heat another pan and add ghee. When the ghee is hot, add mustard seeds and when the mustard seeds starts to sputter, add curry leaves and add this seasoned ingredients to the rasam
- The yummy Vengaya Rasam (Onion Rasam) is now ready to serve with hot steamed rice and pappad!
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| Vengaya Rasam Recipe | Onion Rasam Recipe |