Sides to go with this rasam rice:
- Pichi potta chicken
- Chicken tawa fry
- Chicken uppu kari
- Chettinad prawn roast recipe, Chettinad prawn masala
- Prawn pickle recipe, Homemade prawn pickle recipe
- Pepper chicken
- Nethili fish fry recipe, Nethili fry
So let’s get to the making of pudina rasam/ mint soup!!
You may be interested in other rasam recipes below:
- Drumstick rasam
- Moringa rasam/ Drumstick leaves rasam
- Pepper rasam
- Mango rasam
Do you love mint flavor then check this out:
- Mint Rice
- Mint/ Pudina sev
- Mint raita
- Mint thokku/ Pudina thokku
- Green chutney
- Bombay sandwich

Mint rasam recipe, Pudina rasam
2021-02-01 23:48:31

Serves 4
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Prep Time
10 min
Cook Time
10 min
Total Time
20 min
Ingredients
- 1. Mint leaves/ Pudina – ¼ cup (chopped)
- 2. Ripe tomato – 1
- 3. Tamarind – small gooseberry size
- 4. Water – 2 cups
- 5. Salt – to taste
- 6. Rasam powder – 1 tbsp
- 7. Curry leaves – a sprig
- 8. Cilantro/ Coriander leaves – 1 tbsp (chopped)
- 9. Mustard seeds – ½ tsp
- 10. Oil – 1 tbsp
- 11. Hing – a pinch
- 12. Dry red chilli - 2 to 3nos.
FOR GRINDING
- 1. Garlic – 1
- 2. Cumin seeds – ½ tsp
- 3. Peppercorn – ½ tsp
Note
- * 1 cup = 235 ml
Instructions
- Soak tamarind in 2 cups of water and extract the tamarind juice.
- In a hand mortar add garlic, cumin seeds and peppercorn. Using a pestel grind it coarse. If you don’t have hand mortar and pestel you can use blender to grind it coarse.
- Heat oil in a pan add dry red chilli and mustard seeds when it splutters add hing, curry leaves and ground mixture. Give it a stir then add chopped tomato cubes, mjnt leaves, rasam powder and salt. Saute well until tomatoes get little a little soft and mint shrinks in size. Now add tamarind extract which is about 2 ½ cups of water. Put the flame in medium then close the pot. When froth starts to form and when rasam boils a bit switch off the flame garnish it with chopped cilantro/ coriander leaves. Relish it hot with hot rice and ghee.
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How to make Mint rasam with step by step images

- Soak tamarind in 2 cups of water and extract the tamarind juice.
- In a hand mortar add garlic, cumin seeds and peppercorn. Using a pestel grind it coarse. If you don’t have hand mortar and pestel you can use blender to grind it coarse.
- Heat oil in a pan add dry red chilli and mustard seeds when it splutters add hing, curry leaves and
ground mixture. Give it a stir then add chopped tomato cubes, mjnt leaves, rasam powder and salt. Saute well until tomatoes get little a little soft and mint shrinks in size. Now add tamarind extract which is about 2 ½ cups of water. Put the flame in medium then close the pot. When froth starts to form and when rasam boils a bit switch off the flame garnish it with chopped cilantro/ Coriander leaves. Relish it hot with hot rice and ghee.