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Watermelon Rasam – Rasam Varieties
August 2, 2017
Rasam Varieties
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Rasam always gets a warm welcome at home! Any type of rasam and a simple stir fry is an all time comfort food. This time it is a simple and flavourful Watermelon Rasam. Yes it is, u heard it right! Its sweet, sour, tangy – all tastes in one rasam. Nobody at home could find out that it was made out of watermelon. Watermelon is the hero of this recipe. I de-seeded the watermelon and extracted juice. Last but not the least, it is very colourful 🙂 Rasam and potato fry is the best combo.
Here is the video..
Now to the recipe..
[Preparation Time-15 mins : Cooking Time- 10 mins]
Watermelon Rasam Ingredients:
- Watermelon – 1 cup (de-seeded & chopped)
- Oil – 1 tsp
- Mustard – 1 tsp
- Fenugreek seeds – 1/4 tsp
- Asafoetida – a generous pinch
- Curry leaves – a sprig
- Green chilli – 1 (slit)
- Garlic – 2 cloves (crushed)
- Tamarind paste – 1/2 tsp
- Salt – as needed
- Turmeric powder – a pinch
- Coriander powder – 2 tsp
- Jeera – 1 tsp
- Pepper – 1 tsp
- Coriander leaves – few
Method:
- Heat a pan with oil and temper with mustard, fenugreek seeds & asafoetida. Add curry leaves, slit green chilli and crushed garlic. Saute for a few seconds. Now add tamarind extract, required water, salt & turmeric powder. Meanwhile take pepper, coriander seeds & jeera in a mixer.
- Grind it into a coarse powder. Add the rasam powder to the tamarind extract mixture and heat it in medium flame. Meanwhile take the watermelon chunks in a mixer.
- Make a juice. I just left some chunks as is and did not make a smooth juice. Add this juice to the rasam. When it comes to a boil and is frothy, switch off and add fresh coriander leaves.
Thats it! Flavourful Watermelon Rasam is ready!
Serve hot!
Tips:
- U can de-seed the watermelon and extract juice or make a juice and strain it. Sometimes the watermelon might not be very sweet. It would be perfect to make rasam out of a bland watermelon too.
- I normally make variations in my rasam powder. U can use your way of rasam powder.
- U can add a tbsp of cooked toor dal.
- Do not boil the Watermelon Rasam for a long time. Switch it off when its frothy.
– By Sundari Nathan
different kind of rasam..yummy share
This is such a unique kind of rasam. There’s no end to ideas about incorporating the produce of the season. Love the idea!
Different and delicious rasam..
Yummy rasam with watermelon flavor infused!!