Mint Rasam. Recipe for Mint Rasam / Pudina Rasam. Excellent home remedy for cold and flu. I always make this rasam whenever we prepare a heavy meal.

Mint Rasam (Pudina Rasam) is a soothing and aroma rich rasam with balanced spices. Thakkali Paruppu Rasam is one of the common rasam variety we all make almost everyday. We can enhance the usual rasam with aroma rich Mint. You can have Mint Rasam using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Mint Rasam

It's 2 of tomatoes.
Prepare to taste of salt.
Prepare 3/4 cup of mint leaves.
You need 2 tbsp of pigeon peas.
Prepare 1/2 tsp of Jeera/cumin seeds.
It's 5-6 of pepper corns.
You need 5 of curry leaves.
Prepare 2 tsp of ghee.
It's 1/2 tsp of mustard seeds.
You need 1/2 tsp of Hing/asafoetida.
It's 1 tsp of lemon juice.
You need 1 tsp of rasam powder.
It's 1 of dry red chilli.

This mint infused rasam is a great treat to our taste buds. Rasam is very common in all South Indian homes. We make different types of rasam and this mint (pudina in Tamil) rasam is one of them. It is very flavorful and easy to make.

Mint Rasam step by step

Dry roast jeera, peppercorns, pigeon peas and grind it to powder..
Wash and chop tometoes,few curry leaves and boil with enough water. Then add prepared powder and cook for sometime..
Make paste of mint leaves and half of boiled tometoesand add to boiling tomato es and boil for 5min add salt, jagarry,rasam powder and lemon juice and off the flame..
Make tadaka of ghee,rai,hing,red chilli and curry leaves and add to rasam and it's ready to serve..

This rasam does not need rasam powder. It is the mint, peppercorns and cumin seeds which gives flavor to the rasam. Pudina rasam or Mint leaves rasam is a South Indian style rasam that goes well with rice and appalam. This rasam is healthy, refreshing, aromatic and has strong flavors of mint leaves. Pudina rasam soothes sore throat and relieves cold.