Beetroot rasam recipe with step by step pics.
Rasam Is one of the easiest dish you can make and does not take a lot of time. Usually I make rasam as a side dish with rice and on sundays it is compulsory along with chicken.
Rasam tastes great along with any Chicken Recipe
I shared many varieties of rasam like
Mango Rasam etc.
All the rasams can be made with Homemade Rasam Powder
Coming to beetroot rasam it is very easy recipe. Both red chilli and green chilli flavours add more taste to the recipe. In this beetroot rasam I added very little ginger garlic paste. If you don't like it you can skip the step.
Let's now quickly checkout the ingredients and preparation of beetroot rasam.
Ingredients Required
- Beetroot - 1 (small)
- Tomato - 1 or 2 based on size
- Onion - 1 small
- Green chillies - 2
- Red chillies - 2
- Curry leaves
- Turmeric - 1/2tsp
- Rasam Powder - 1tbsp
- Tamarind - very little
- Ginger garlic paste - less than 1/4tsp
- Oil - 1tsp
- Water - required to prepare rasam
- Mustard seeds - 1/2tsp
- Cumin seeds - 1/2tsp
- Coriander leaves
Preparation
1. I'm using pressure cooker to cook the veggies, you can cook separately too. Now firstly add chopped beetroot into cooker.
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2. Add roughly chopped tomatoes. You can add carrots too.
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3. Add 1/2 sliced onion and the other half sliced onion can be used later.
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4. Add roughly chopped green chillies. Every ingredient we add in the cooking process enhances taste to rasam.
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5. Now cut 3 red chillies into halves and add them.
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6. Now add little tamarind. As we added tomato also very little tamarind will be enough.
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7. Now add turmeric. You can add here or turmeric can be added while boiling.
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8. Now add curry leaves. By adding curry leaves while pressure cooking it enhances flavour of rasam.
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9. Next step is to add ginger garlic paste. Very little is enough. If you don't like you can skip this step. But it tastes good if we add ginger garlic paste.
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10. Now add Homemade Rasam Powder
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11. Finally add 1/4th cup water and cook for 4 whistles and turn off the stove.
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12. Open lid and let it cool completely to grind it.
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13. Add into mixi jar and grind to fine paste.
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14. Add water into mixi jar and mix. Nearly 1/2litre can be added.
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15. Now transfer it into strainer and rasam will be separated.
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16. Now add oil into heated pan.
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17. Add red chillies, mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves and fry.
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18. Add sliced onion and fry till colour changes.
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19. Now add strained into pan.
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20. Add salt required for the rasam based on your taste. You can add rock salt or normal salt.
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21. Now add little jaggery. This is completely optional.
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22. Boil rasam for about 10 to 15 mins.
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23. Add coriander leaves and boil for 5 more minutes.
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Finally beetroot rasam is ready to serve.