Vegan Onion Rasam/Spiced Onion Rasam/Neerulli Saaru

Rasam is a medicinal Indian soup which is prepared everyday to please our tastebuds as well as to helps for easy digestion. This dish is quite a usual one at home. A kind of comforting food for me. Am running this week's blogging marathon with One vegetable different ways as theme. Once i picked Onions as the vegetable for this week's theme, i couldnt resist to prepare a rasam with. This rasam is definitely a fingerlicking dish which is quite a comforting food as well. Rasam, this dish is usually made with a grounded spiced rasam powder which calls for a combination of spices. But this onion rasam is seriously different from the usual rasam. Onion rasam calls for white onions which is quite not a usual one for making rasam. Mostly shallots are used for dishing out this incredible dish, but for a change i tried this dish with white onions.

Tulasi Rasam/Holy Basil Leaves Herbal Soup/Herbal Rasam/Thulasi Rasam

My today's post goes for Holy basil aka thulasi leaves, this leaves have numerous medicinal value and its really good to have everyday some freshly plucked leaves early in the morning. Obviously during my last India trip, i could resist to dish out this healthy herbal soup with this incredible leaves. I have bookmarked PJ's Thulasi rasam once she posted in her space and i know i can dish out this rasam only during my trip to India as these leaves are really hard to get or find here. Thank god, my aunt have her beautiful organic terrace and she grows many vegetables and greens, needless to say this thulasi plant have its place in her terrace. How can i resist to those fresh green thulasi leaves, i had them almost everyday and without any fail, i prepared this rasam. Though i followed PJ's recipe, i couldnt resist to make some changes according to my tastebuds.

Arisithippili Rasam/Long Pepper Rasam/Thippili Sathumudu

During my last Indian trip, i picked some medicinal value rich spices from herbal medicine shops. One among those herbal spices i treasure carefully is this Arisithippili aka long pepper, this pepper is a relative of black pepper. Kandathippili is the bark of Piper lon gum/long pepper and the dried fruit is called Arisi thippili. Thippili rasam is a very interesting home remedy for common cold, cough and body aches. The spiciness of this pepper will tickle the tastebuds when you are suffering with cold. The roots, leaves and dry fruits are used very much in many more home remedies. This rasam was one of my favourite and i do often at home when the weather is very much dull. This comforting food can be enjoyed thoroughly even if you are not sick. But however having this rasam while you have cough or cold helps a lot to feel much better.

Sweet Corn & Coriander Rasam

Nothing can be comforting like having rasam rice with fryums or papads, i wont miss rasam for any cost. Actually  i can survive for many days with rasam. I love varieties in rasam and do make different trials with this wonderful food.I have bookmarked couple of dishes from many blogs, the list of my bookmarked recipes just goes on. Thank god i picked bookmarked recipes as theme for this week's blogging marathon, finally i could post three bookmarked recipes i have tried already which are sitting sadly in my draft.Obviously this sweet corn and coriander rasam is one among the bookmarked recipes i have tried long back from Divya's space. This rasam is definitely a different one with a superb flavour from coriander leaves along with mild sweetness from sweet corn kernels.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#43.

Chettinad Kozhi Rasam/Chettinad Chicken Rasam

Rasam is a comforting food for most of us. These spiced Indian soup goes for different spices which have numerous medicinal values. Peppercorns and cumin seeds are the most important spices we use for making rasam. Some may go for freshly grounded rasam powder,while some make monthly once their rasam powder and conserve them air tight containers for further use. Rasam,this spiced soup is my family's favourite, so if its rice for lunch i'll make rasam definitely to serve with rice, yes we love rasam that much.

Coming to this chicken rasam, this dish is very popular in chettinad cuisine, and they are often made when someone in the family suffers with cold. Even a tasteless tongue during fever or cold will enjoy thoroughly this spicy rasam.This chicken rasam is made by the chicken with bones,which can be eaten while enjoying this rasam or else you can just fry them separately with spices by removing them once the rasam is cooked. However we love our chicken pieces with rasam, this dish is going to be a part of Tamizhar Samayal Tuesday,happening twice a month.

Kandathippili Rasam

Kandathippili is available in herbals stores in South India, they are about 2-3inch long sticks. These sticks have many medicinal values and its used in cooking. If you are suffering from body aches,cold or fever, make a simple comforting food aka rasam with these kandathippili sticks and enjoy it. After having this spiced soup you will definitely see the difference. My mom brought me these kandathippili sticks from India and i tried recently this rasam with those herbal sticks.

While talking with my mom she told that my grandma makes even tangy gravy aka kuzhambu with this sticks, however my first trial with this kandathippili sticks is this rasam. You can have this rasam just like a soup or else with some rice.This rasam is quite famous in Tamil Nadu cuisine especially among the Iyer community.

Gooseberry Rasam/Nellikkai Rasam

Life is back to routine, kids are back to school and am missing their small fights, their discussion,suddenly the house is so calm and boring now. Coming to the recipe, its a delicious,healthy and a quick rasam with gooseberries. This weekend i picked some gooseberries from Indian stores and tried my hand in preparing this different and healthy rasam. Gooseberries, Amla aka Nellikkai have numerous health benefits and this berries are cooked as many dishes in Indian cuisine.

Usually i'll make rice or pickle out of this gooseberries,after making a rasam with gooseberries few month back, i tried an another version of rasam and they came out extremely awesome. Instead of cooking or adding whole pieces of gooseberries,i went for a gooseberry puree which i prepared simply by grinding the raw berries, check an another interesting gooseberry & dal rasam i prepared previously by pressure cooking the gooseberries. If you get gooseberries abundantly dont forget to make some rasam out of it.One more interesting rasam from my kitchen which am adding to my vast rasam collection.