Healthy Food Recipes - Horse gram Rasam (Kollu Rasam)
Posted on: 18/Feb/2015 12:02:02 PM
Ingredients
- Horse gram (sprouted) – 5 tbsp.
- Tamarind – a small lemon size
- Tomato – 2 nos
- Red chilli – 2 nos
- Mustard seeds – 1/4 spoon
- Oil / Ghee – 1 tbsp.
- Coriander leaves – a few
- Curry leaves – a few
- Turmeric powder – ¼ tbsp.
- Asafoetida – a pinch
- Salt – as required
To Grind:
- Pepper – ½ spoon
- Cumin seeds – ½ tbsp.
- Garlic – 3 cloves
Method of Preparation:
- Wash and soak horse gram in water for about half a day. Drain it completely and keep it aside. You can observe the sprouts formation in horse gram. (Or) Soak horse gram for overnight and use it in the morning without even the formation of sprouts.
- Pressure cook horse gram with the required quantity of water.
- Collect the horse gram cooked water separately.
- Grind a small portion of the cooked horse gram to a fine paste. You can prepare Kollu sundal with the rest of the boiled horse gram.
- Dry grind the items like pepper, cumin seeds and garlic which is give under the ‘to grind’ section.
- Take a mixing bowl and mix well the tamarind extract, tomato and turmeric powder.
- Heat the pan with either a spoon of oil or ghee and add mustard seeds, red chilli, curry leaves and the dry powder of pepper, garlic and cumin seeds. Mix well and keep the stove in low flame.
- Then immediately add tamarind extract, tomato, required quantity of water and salt.
- Then add a pinch of asafoetida to it.
- Once the raw smell of tomato and tamarind extract leaves, add the horse gram water and the smooth paste of horse gram.
- Allow it to boil for some time and add coriander leaves for garnishing and switch off the flame.
- Hot Kollu Rasam is ready to serve!
Tips:
- Sprouted form of horse gram has high nutritional value, else you can use the overnight soaked horse gram for the preparation.
- So as to get the thicker consistency of the Rasam, grind a spoon of horse gram to a fine paste and add it to the Rasam. Else the boiled water horse gram is simply enough for the preparation.
Benefits:
- Horse gram actually stimulates body heat, thus it is better if you can gulp a spoon of fenugreek with water in the empty stomach.
- Horse gram is rich in fibre.
- The poly-phenol content in horse gram, helps in reducing the body fat.
- Helps in lowering the cholesterol level in the blood.
- Aids in lessening the cholesterol level in the liver.
- Soak two spoons of horse gram overnight and the next day morning, heat this and consume the liquid – Aids in dissolving the kidney stones.
- Horse gram shows awesome benefits for the people who have cold, cough, Asthma, Sinus and so on.
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
