Araitha(Ground) Rasam

Ingredients:

Thoor Dhall - 2 tblsp
Tomato - 1 Large
Garlic - 10 pods
Pepper - 1 tsp
Jeera - 1/2 tsp
Mustard - 1/2 tsp
Red Chillies - 2
Curry leaves
Tamarind - lemon sized ball
Chilly(saambar) powder - 1/2 tsp
Jaggery - for taste
Salt - for taste
Asafoetida(perungayam) - pinch
Coriander Leaves

Method:

Cook thoor dhall and keep it aside. Grind tomato, jeera, red chillies, garlic and pepper together. Now add the ground paste to the dhall. Put in salt, asafoetida, tamarind paste and adequate water and let it to boil. Season with mustard and garnish some coriander leaves. Araitha rasam is ready to serve.

Serve it with hot steamed rice along with appalam. It will suffice for 4 servings.

hmmmm I can imagine ppl saying it is almost similar to vaanali rasam. Yeah very true but this rasam includes thoor dhall and the seasoning done at the end gives a different flavour from vaanali rasam. Small variations make big differences na.. ;) Enjoy eating.

And ppl you might ask me y I have been updating rasam recipes only everyday? Good question. Come on I am just learning A B C D of cooking and it will take more time to say chekozlovakia!!! Wait for it plz.. ;)

Written by: Nithya
post your queries to fourthsensesamayal@gmail.com

Lemon Rasam

Ingredients:

Moong Dhall(green gram dhall) or Thoor Dhall - 2 tblsp
Pepper powder - 1 tsp
Jeera - 1 tsp
Green Chillies - 2 nos.
Garlic - 5 pods
Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
Lemon extract - 1 tblsp
Salt
Turmeric powder - pinch
Asafoetida(perungayam) - pinch
Coriander leaves

Method:

Cook dhall and keep it aside. Season mustard, garlic(dice into small pieces), green chillies, Jeera in one spoon of oil and add them to the dhall. Put in pepper powder, turmeric powder, Asafoetida, salt and enough water to it and let it boil. Now switch off the flame and add 1tblsp of lemon extract. Finally garnish with coriander leaves. Lemon rasam ready.

Serve with hot steamed rice and murukku. :) This quantity will suffice for 4 ppl.

This is one other funny presentation of my rasam! :)

Written by: Nithya
post your queries to fourthsensesamayal@gmail.com

Thakkali (Tomato) Rasam

Tomato Rasam:

Ingredients:

Thoor Dhall - 2 tbl sp
Tomato - 1/4 kg
Tamarind paste - little
Chilly powder - 1/2 tsp
Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp
Jaggery - for taste
Salt - for taste
Asafoetida(perungayam) - pinch
Curry leaves
Coriander leaves

Method:

Cook toor dal and along with it add the tomato extract and tamarind paste. Now put in pepper powder, chilly powder, jaggery, salt, coriander leaves and asafoetida and let it to boil. Now season with mustard seeds and curry leaves. Tomato rasam is ready.

Serve it with hot steamed rice and potato chips. :) This quantity can suffice 4 hungry men.

Written by: Nithya
post your queries to fourthsensesamayal@gmail.com

Day 1 Samayal - Vaanali Rasam

Finally mom successfully kick started me and drove me into the kitchen. Started off with a OMG feeling, but I swear its so interesting to cook. Ok Ok no more stories. Off to cooking.

Vaanali(Pan) Rasam

Ingredients:

Tomato - 1 Large
Garlic - 5 pods
Pepper - 1 tsp
Jeera - 1/2 tsp
Mustard - 1/2 tsp
Red Chillies - 2
Fenugreek (Vendhayam) - 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves
Tamarind - lemon sized ball
Chilly powder - 1/2 tsp
Turmeric powder - a pinch
Jaggery - for taste
Salt - for taste
Coriander Leaves


Method:

Grind tomato, Jeera, garlic and pepper together and keep it aside. Add two spoons of oil in the pan and crackle some mustard seeds in it. Add red chillies, fenugreek seeds and curry leaves and fry for a min. Then add the ground mixture to the pan. Now put in some tamarind paste, chilly powder, turmeric powder, jaggery and salt with adequate water added to it and let it boil for a while. Garnish with coriander leaves. Your yummy vaanali rasam is ready. ;)

Serve it with hot steamed rice and appalam. This can sufficiently be served for 4 ppl.

Written by: Nithya
post your queries to fourthsensesamayal@gmail.com

Samayalukku Fresher!!!!!!

College mudichu oru 20-24 vayasula irukara yella ponnungalayum periyavanga kekura orey kelvi "SAMAYIKA THERIYUMA?".

What a terrifying question can it be. We have always seen kitchen as a place meant for mom or cook and for sure not for us. At the most we would have made coffee or tea, may be at times we would have made rice.. Tats it. But a sudden change in age would demand us to know a super complicated magical mystry called COOKING. Hmmmm might sound simple. But blending the right things rightly in right proportions to right royally flatten your family is a BIG challenge.

Does this talent come by birth? or does god appear from no where and show a beam of light on you, giving a boon to cook super good food?? or does a little of mom's gene gifted to you help you out???

No NO no none of these. Its just the fourth sense of TASTE, that drives you to cook good food.

So I am here to test my taste buds and to put down the recipes that I tried on this blog.


Disclaimer: I am new to kitchen! There could be very experimental stuff out here. But I will always try to make sure I test them on the scape family members before I give the secret out here. :):):)