Garlic rasam recipe | How to make bellulli saaru | 5 minute garlic rasam
By Latha on June 5th, 2020
Garlic rasam or bellulli saaru recipe explained using step by step pictures and a video. This is a super fast saru or rasam recipe and it can be prepared in just 5 minutes. This quick and easy garlic rasam or tomato saru is prepared using garlic, tomato, tempering, salt, jaggery, salt, red chilli and green chilli.
This is a very simple way to prepare garlic rasam. There is no toor dal and no rasam powder in this recipe. To keep it simple I haven't added coriander leaves also. However to the same recipe you can add rasam powder and coriander leaves if you wish.
The best part is you can prepare this rasam or saaru in just 5 minutes. So I would say this is a perfect recipe for bachelors and busy working mothers. You try this recipe and let me know how much time you actually took to prepare this saaru or rasam. I can finish this saaru in just five minutes.
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 quick garlic rasam recipe with Kannada narration, which I have embedded it below. Kindly have a look.
Preparation time: 1 min
Cooking time: 5 min
Serves: 2
Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 1 medium sized tomato
- 1 gooseberry sized tamarind
- 1 gooseberry sized jaggery
- 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
- 10 - 12 cloves of garlic
- 1 red chilli
- 1 slit green chili
- Big pinch asafoetida
- Big pinch turmeric powder
- 4-5 curry leaves
- 1 tbsp coriander leaves (optional)
- 1 tsp rasam powder (optional)
- 1 tbsp cooking oil / ghee
- Salt as per your taste.
Instructions for making garlic rasam or bellulli saaru:
- Heat a frying pan. Add in oil, mustard seeds, cumin seeds and broken red chillies.
- When the mustard seed splutters add in curry leaves and slit gree chillies.
- Followed by add in asafoetida and turmeric powder.
- Add in peeled and crushed garlic. Fry until garlic turns slightly brown.
- Next add in chopped tomato. Fry until tomatoes are soft and mushy. You can few table spoons of water if required.
- Add in salt, tamarind extract and jaggery. Adjust all three as per your taste. Give a quick mix and bring it to boil.
- Also add in 1.5 to 2 cups of water.
- Bring it to roling boil. Optionally you can add a tsp of rasam powder and some coriander leaves. Switch off the stove. Serve it with hot steaming rice
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