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Fresh Green Peppercorn's Soup / Pacha Milagu Rasam




Pacha Milagu Puli Rasam:

Ingredients:

Thick tamarind paste 1-2 spoons(diluted with enough water)
Fresh green peppercorns 2 springs
Garlic with skin 8-10 cloves -semi crushed
Dry red chilies 5-8 torn into flakes
Curry leaves few
Rasam powder 1-2 spoons
Turmeric powder 1/4 spoon
Salt
Mustard seeds 1 spoon
Cumin seeds 1/2 spoon
Asafoetida 1/4 spoon
Oil few spoons.

Method:

Heat oil in a vessel, add tempering spices, followed by crushed peppercorns, garlic, chili flakes etc. Add enough salt, turmeric and rasam powder to the same.

Further add tamarind water, continue heating over medium to high heat. Once it comes to boil, remove from heat.

Serve to go with plain steamed rice., that's comforting..right!

14 comments:

Priya Sreeram said...

kurumilagu rasam looks delish !! the green peppercorns look so adorable

Harika's Kitchen said...

Looks colorful .

Shama Nagarajan said...

nice rasam...

Gayathri Kumar said...

Very comforting and delicious rasam..

Sushma Mallya said...

looks delicious,perfect to have with hot steamed rice..

Suja Sugathan said...

Perfect soup, spicy and delicious.

Priya said...

Very new for me, sure its definitely a delicious and comforting rasam..

Faye Levy said...

Where do you buy fresh green peppercorns? At an Indian grocery?

Charitha said...

Perfect,I had this Rasam since long back whn i was studying in chennai..u remind me the taste of the rasam..

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Thank you girls,

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Faye, I prepared this soup' back home in India...during my vacation. This peppercorns were plucked right from the plantations:) I am not sure' where to find them, here at U.S!

Umm Mymoonah said...

Never seen this pepper before, I'm sure it should have tasted awesome.

Sowmya said...

Looks very appetizing....and healthy too! Where can we get fresh peppercorns (pacha milagu)?

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divya said...

Wow simply superb.. Can I have some?:)

Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal said...

wow, great pic, never saw fresh green peppercorns before. The rasam looks very very tempting.