At home kids been suffering from cold and cough.. My mom used to make milagu(pepper corn) rasam to help liquefy mucus. And she also send me this thippili(long pepper) from India to use as a medicine for cold. I saw it here in Houston, in some of the Indian stores. Here is the recipe to make thippili rasam.
Ingredients:
- Toor Dhal - 2 tbsp
- Cumin seeds - 2 tsp
- Black pepper corns - 1 tsp
- Long pepper(Arisi Thippili) - 1 tsp
- Dry Red Chillies - 2 nos
- Tamarind - small lemon size
- Salt - to taste
- Curry leaf - 1 stem
- Ghee - 2 tsp
- Mustard seeds - 1 tsp (to saute)
- Water - 2 cup
Procedure
- Heat a small pan, add a tsp of ghee and saute toor dhal, cumin seeds, black pepper, long pepper, red chillies, till a nice aroma comes (till toor dhal becomes golden brown).
- Mean while make tamarind extract from the soaked tamarind, add curry leaves and bring it to boil
- Coarse grind the saute toordhal mixture and add it to the boiling tamarind.
- Bring it to boil. And add necessary water to make rasam. Also add salt to taste.
- Let it boil for a minute. Sputter little mustard seeds, in a tsp of ghee and pour into it.
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