Mangai Veppam Poo Rasam

 

A delicious, healthy, and pinch of bitterness rasam/soup.

 This rasam is mainly prepared during Tamil New Year's Day. It's often made in South India for its medicinal properties. Neem cleanses and purifies your blood. All the parts of a neem tree are used in various forms. The flowers are also used in treating intestinal worms.

Ingredients:

raw mango - 1 small size

neem leaves - 1 tbsp

tamarind extract - 1/4 cup

jaggery - a small piece

garlic - 4 cloves

curry leaves, cilantro

turmeric - 1/4 tsp

asafoetida 

ghee

salt to taste

For rasam powder :

red chili - 3 nos

dania - 1 sp

toor dal - 1 tsp

Method:

• Grate the mango, add some hot water, tamarind water, jaggery, salt, and asafoetida. Close and rest for a few minutes. 

• Fry the neem leaves on low heat with ghee. remove and keep it aside.

• In the same pan dry roast the ingredients for rasam powder. Grind to fine powder and keep.

• Now add a tsp of ghee for tempering. mustard, urad, and red chili.

• When it starts to splutter add crushed garlic and some curry leaves and cilantro.

• Add the mango water mix.

• Add turmeric.

• Add the rasam powder.

• When it starts to boil add the roasted neem leaves and switch off.

• A healthy and tasty rasam is ready to enjoy.