Kollu Rasam
Kollu Rasam is a nutritious & healthy South Indian soup made by cooking Kollu with tamarind extract, tempered onion, tomato, spices & herbs. Kollu Rasam is subtle and a very good alternate to the regular rasam. Kollu Rasam Recipe is easy & quick to make and explained in this post with step by step pictures. Kollu slows ageing, controls sugar levels, promotes weight loss & more.
Servings3
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup kollu / horse gram
- 1 tomato roughly chopped
- 2 teaspoon tamarind pulp
- 2 teaspoon coriander leaves finely chopped
- salt to taste
To Temper:
- 1/2 teaspoon Mustard seeds
- 2 red chillies
- few curry leaves
- a generous pinch hing
- 1 teaspoon oil
To crush coarsely :
- 3 nos garlic
- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds Jjeera
- 10 nos pepper
Instructions
- Soak kollu(horsegram) overnight with enough water.
- Pressure cook with 1.5 cups of water for 5 whistles. Drain the water, set it aside.
- Crush garlic, pepper and jeera coarsely using a hand mortar and pestle, set aside.
- In a pan add oil and temper the items listed under ‘to temper’.
- Then add the crushed garlic-pepper-jeera mixture and saute for a minute.
- Then add required salt, hing and turmeric powder.
- Add tomatoes and saute till raw smell leaves.
- Mush the kollu with the drained water once and then add it to the tempered items.
- Add tamarind paste and allow it for a nice boil.
- Then add chopped coriander leaves and switch it off. Enjoy Kollu Rasam!
Notes
- We can also add rasam powder but I prefer freshly crushed garlic jeera and pepper.
Nutrition Facts
Kollu Rasam
Amount Per Serving (200 ml)
Calories 112
Calories from Fat 27
% Daily Value*
Fat 3g5%
Saturated Fat 0.2g1%
Trans Fat 0.01g
Polyunsaturated Fat 1g
Monounsaturated Fat 1g
Sodium 660mg29%
Potassium 406mg12%
Carbohydrates 19g6%
Fiber 3g13%
Sugar 5g6%
Protein 4g8%
Vitamin A 832IU17%
Vitamin C 116mg141%
Calcium 80mg8%
Iron 2mg11%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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