Today, I made Garlic Rasam and Chicken Tikka for our Lunch. The main reason behind it is that, this would be my entry to JFI: Garlic. This is an awesome combination for a sunday afternoon. You can read all the interesting facts about Garlic in this page.
Ingredients:
- Garlic-6 to 8 Cloves, peeled and crushed
- Tamarind-One Lime sized qty.
- Water-3 to 4 cups.
- Salt to taste
- Jeera/Cumin-1/2 tsp
- Pepper-1/2 tsp
- Mustard-1/4 tsp
- Turmeric-2 pinches.
- Curry leaves-2 twigs.
- Oil-1tsp.
Preparation:
- Dissolve the tamarind in water and filter out the pulp.
- Take a saucepan, pour the tamarind water.
- put the crushed garlic and salt as per taste to it and boil it for 5 minutes.
- Then add the Jeera and the Pepper powder,Turmeric pwd to it and let it sim for 2 minutes.
- Once bubbles start forming on the sides(like froth), switch it off.
- Take a separate pan and pour the oil in it.
- once hot, splutter the mustard seeds and add curry leaves to it.
- pour this mixture over the Switched off Rasam and garnish it.
- Serve it with rice or can serve as a soup.
Relax and Enjoy!! This is my first entry for JFI: Garlic.
Jihva for Garlic: Roundup « V I R U N D H U said,
April 7, 2008 @ 11:41 pm
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madhavi said,
April 21, 2008 @ 2:37 pm
You have wonderful blog fazeetha!!!Keep up the good work..
fazeetha said,
April 21, 2008 @ 3:29 pm
Thank you very much Madhavi…
Pritya said,
April 29, 2008 @ 7:12 pm
Hi, Thats such a simple a yum recipe….I like your slide show of images very much.