Saaru/rasam is a great appetizer. The spice powder ie saarina pudi which we make to put in saaru consists of the herbs like black pepper, cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds, mustard seeds etc, which have medicinal values and works good for healthy when consumed everyday in small amount. This can also be consumed like a soup.
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An instant recipe which saves the time and energy besides being healthy as well. Very suitable for those days on which you are not feeling like cooking in detail, when you are in a hurry, when you want to have something light but healthy, comforting, when you want to have something little different than the
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A therapeutic, soothing, diabetic friendly saaru/rasam recipe using amla, herbs, condiments and spices. An absolutely winter friendly recipe. Today wanted to make amla/nellikayi chitranna, but ended up making saaru/rasam. I have also posted amla pickle , dry instant pickle , achari amla subji , amla tokku , amla chutney , coriander leaves amla chutney ,
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Instant saaru/rasam recipe which can be prepared in minutes without using cooked dal/lentil but using powdered lentil/dal (masala lentil/dal premix). It turns out too tasty and very easy and quick to make and very much suitable for bachelors who find it difficult at times to cook elaborate dishes. Also when you are not willing to
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I would like to call this saaru/rasam as digestive saaru or soothing saaru. A very simple yet flavorful saaru/rasam recipe which we would like to relish on any day-any time mixed with hot steaming rice, along with any kind of sihi palya like huralikayi Palya , Sihi genasina Palya  , Cabbage green peas Palya ,
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Today it’s absolutely winter special dishes for brunch at our place. A very soulful food which is healthy, therapeutic and very much suitable for this cold weather. The platter consists of Plain rice, menasina saaru (black pepper rasam), hesarukalu huggi (green gram khichdi), Gujarati sweet kadhi and mavina midi (vadu/tender mango pickle)

Extremely delicious, fiber rich, includes high protein, healthy salad/Usli using split bengal gram/Kadalebele, which is made during festivals, that too specially during navaratri/dasara/bombehabba. My mom used make it on Sunday evenings as tea time snack or on other days as an after school snack. This can also be prepared as an accompaniment with tili saaru/Plain
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Normally we all use beetroot in the form of subji/palya, salad, raita, chutney, huli (sambar), Kootu (mix veg huli), saaru(rasam), halwa, milk shake etc etc. But the fact is we cannot make it everyday , I mean no one likes to eat if you make something or the other using beetroot everyday. But the more
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Tried it just like that/haage summane/ainvayi/aise hee ! as regular as bele saaru (lentil rasam), but have added sauteed and ground methi/fenugreek leaves and small amount of fenugreek seeds as well. I thought it may turn out little bitter but it didn’t. So gladly sharing the recipe of the same with you all which is
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Horse gram is a legume of the tropics and subtropics, grown mostly under dry land agriculture.  Horse gram is an excellent source of iron & molybdenum. Comparatively horse gram seeds have higher trypsin inhibitor and hemagglutinin activities and polyphenols then most of the bean seeds. These are rich in nutrients like calcium, phosphorous and protein.
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Just perfect for the rainy & winter season as well , includes all the medicinal/therapeutic qualities, Piping hot, instant, lentil less (cooked)… black pepper/kari menasu saaru. Here the word kari translates to ‘black’ and menasu translates to ‘pepper’.  It is also good for cough & cold. You can drink it as soup or can be eaten
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An amazing, easy to prepare, very tasty, instant saaru/rasam which doesn’t use any lentil ! Yes you read it right! It’s a no lentil instant saaru. I learnt this wonderful recipe from the admin of the one of the food groups, by name Mr. Gudda bhatta joshi holalu. I have made it several times since
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You can also call it as Lemon lentil soup…. ! During lemon season and summer season lemon saaru/rasam is made very often in almost all the south Indian house hold and that specially in our Brahmins community. It is eaten with hot steaming rice with one or two accompaniments like…Palya or Usli or Kosambari. There
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One more innovated, wonderful saaru / rasam recipe made with mint leaves…….. and the outcome is… just wow ! It can be consumed with rice or have it like soup, however it is consumed it is really soothing, tasty and full of flavor. The recipe goes like this…….     Ingredients :  Toor dal (cooked)
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How do we make carrot saaru/rasam ? This can be prepared easily by putting together easily available ingredients in the Kitchen. This is served with rice or else can be served also as soup. This tastes good when made little more spicy. Here is my method of preparing it. Ingredients : For Tempering : For
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Palak/Spinach saaru/rasam recipe explained with step by step procedure pics. This is one of a very healthy, simple, spicy & tasty saaru recipe, which is very aromatic and can be had as a soup as well. It is so tasty that one would feel like relishing on it without stopping. Of late this has become
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One more summer special dish to have with rice ie…. Karnataka’s own, age old recipe ‘bassaru’, using toor dal/pigeon pea and amaranth leaves/dantina soppu. We cook both lentil & chopped greens together by adding enough water and once cooked, pass it through the strainer, and this process is called ‘basiyuvudu’ (to strain) in Kannada. Later we
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We all know fenugreek (leaf or seed) is a kind of medicinal ingredient used in cooking. Its a rich reservoir of medicinal properties that imparts many health benefits. It lowers blood cholesterol, reduces risk of heart disease, controls blood sugar levels, good for skin problem, hair problem, menstrual problem, weight loss, cancer etc etc… there
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Yet another variety of saaru/rasam to go with white rice. Suitable for summer season and tastes awesome. For some reasons if one has to avoid eating too much of potato, then this is the best option to eat less potato. It can be made at regular intervals without any hesitation. In that way you’ll not
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Spiny on the outside & sweet on the inside… pineapple is a fantastic fruit. Saaru/rasam made using pineapple is a kind of saaru with different taste and aroma. If you find that the pineapple you have just bought is sour, then definitely you can go for this recipe, so that pineapple is also not wasted.
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