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Beetroot rasam recipe | How to make beetroot saaru | No dal beetroot rasam

By Latha on May 5th, 2019

Beetroot rasam or beetroot saaru recipe explained using step by step pictures and a video. This is a very tasty and healthy saaru or rasam recipe. Beetroot rasam or saru is prepared using beetroot, tomato, salt, jaggery, tamarind and few other spices.

Beetroot is a vegetable with full of nutrients and many medicinal values. Beetroot is a super food and it contains potassium, magnesium, iron, vitamins A, B6 and C, folic acid, carbohydrates, protein, antioxidants and soluble fibre. Many studies have suggested that increasing consumption of beetroot like vegetables decreases the risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease. It helps in weight loss, promotes a healthy complexion and hair and increases energy level etc. If you are looking for more beetroot recipes then do check our beetoot sambar, beetoot palya, beetroot muddehuli and beetroot sasive or pachadi recipes.

Generally kids love saaru or rasam. And this is one easy way to include vegetable into kids diet. Also beetroot gives unique taste to the rasam.

If you are looking for more rasam recipes then do check menasina saaru or pepper rasam, Mysore saaru or rasam, hunase thokku saaru or tamarind rasam, bili saaru, hesarubele saaru or mung dal rasam, Doddapathre rasam, Udupi rasam, cowpea rasam and fenugreek seed rasam, upsaaru, Mango rasam, avarekalu saaru and sabsige soppu (dill leaves) rasam recipes. I have made a quick video on this, which I have embedded it below.

You can find many more saaru and sambar recipes on this website, under saaru-sambar recipes section.

I have made a quick video on this beetroot rasam recipe with Kannada narration, which I have embedded it below. Kindly have a look.

Beetroot rasam or saaru recipe

Preparation time: 5 min
Cooking time: 20 min
Serves: 4

Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)

1 medium sized beetroot
1 gooseberry sized tamarind
1 gooseberry sized jaggery
1 tbsp coriander leaves
Salt as per your taste.

Ingredients for grinding:

1 medium sized tomato
2 red chilies
2 tsp coriander seeds
1/2 tsp cumin seeds
Big pinch fenugreek seeds
pinch of mustard seeds
few pepper(optional)
1 tsp oil

Ingredients for tempering: (measuring cup used = 240ml)

1 red chili
pinch of mustard seeds
Big pinch asafoetida
4-5 curry leaves
1 tbsp cooking oil

Instructions for making beetroot saaru or rasam:

Peel and chop the beetroot. Next take beetroot in a pan or cooker, add in required water and cook until soft.
Meanwhile heat 1 tsp oil in a frying pan. Add in red chilies, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds and mustard from "for grinding list.
Fry until mustard seeds and cumin seeds start to pop. Add in chopped tomato and continue frying for a minute.

Fry until tomatoes are soft, switch off the stove and wait until cool. Next take fried ingredients in a mixie jar.
Add in cooked beetroot in to the mixie jar, which has roasted spices. Grind until fine paste. Optionally you can add 1/4 cup of coconut while grinding.
Now to the beetroot cooked water, add in salt.
Also add in tamarind extract.
And add in jaggery as per your taste. Keep it for boiling.

Next add in ground paste. Also add in required water. I have added 1.5 cup of water.
Also add in required water. I have added 1.5 cup of water.
Bring it to roling boil. Top it with coriander leaves and switch off the stove.
Temper it with oil, red chili, mustard, cumin, asafoetida and curry leaves. You can replace asafoetida with crushed garlic, if you like the rasam that way. Serve it with hot steaming rice.