Veppam Poo Rasam | Neem Flower Rasam

Veppam poo Rasam (Neem flower Rasam) is a delicious bitter rasam. A very healthy soup or rasam made with dried neem flowers. We make this special rasam on Tamil New Year's Day.

Veppam Poo Rasam | Neem Flower Rasam
Author: Srikanth Rajkumar
Preparation Time: 10 min
Cooking time: 20 min
Servings: 4-5 Persons
Calories per serving: 67 Kcal

Veppam poo Rasam (Neem flower Rasam) is a delicious bitter rasam. A very healthy soup or rasam made with dried neem flowers.

Ingredients:

• 1 small Tamarind Lemon Size
• 1 tsp Salt To Taste
• 4 Red Chili

For  Tempering:

• 1 tsp Ghee (Clarified butter)
• 1 tsp Mustard Seeds
• 1 tbsp Neem Flower
• Few Curry Leaves
• 1 tsp Toor Dal
  
  

Instructions:

1. Soak the tamarind in warm water for 10 mins and extract the juice
2. In a pan, add ghee and fry the red chillies and add it to the tamarind juice and allow the tamarind extract to boil till the raw smell goes off. In a separate pan, heat some ghee and add mustard seeds, when the mustard seeds begins to sputter, add curry leaves, toor dal and fry for 10 seconds. Take this seasoned ingredients aside.
3. In the same pan, then add veppampoo(Neem flower) till they turn golden brown color. Add 2 cups of water to tamarind mixture and salt to the rasam and add these tempered ingredients to the boiling rasam and when the rasam starts to boil, remove the rasam from the flame. 
4. Now the yummy Veppampoo Rasam(Neem flower Rasam) is ready to serve with hot rice. Its always better to eat this Rasam after few minutes of cooking, so that the aroma of neem flower mix with rasam.

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