Thuthuvalai rasam || Tamil Nadu popular - Thuthuvalai rasam

 Thuthuvalai rasam is very healthy and tasty rasam recipe prepared using thuthuvalai. Thuthuvalai  is ancient herb used in many siddha and Ayurvedic medicine. Thuthuvalai is a creeper plant first time I saw in our neighbor "Bharath Paati" house. I saw purple color flower and red color fruit creeper plant in front of their house. When asked, paati told that they are thuthuvali flowers and these flowers are offered to Lord Shiva and also it contains many medicinal health benefits. So I too use to collect some flowers from their place, one day paati's daughter Kanchana akka shared and Bharath paati shared this rasam recipe. Did you drumstick leaves soup which I learned from Bharath paati ??  Continue reading will share more info about thuthuvalai.. 

About Thuthuvalai plant

 As I said early its creeper plant grow widely with purple color flowers and red fruits. Be careful while taking leaves as it contains lots of thorn which may hurt your hands. Use scissor to cut leaves. Thuthuvalai in Tamil is also known as "purple fruited pea egg plant or Thai night shade in English", tutavalam in Malayalam, alarkapatramu, mullamusti,షధ  in Telugu and popularly known by its botanical name Solanum Trilobatum.

Health benefits of Thuthuvalai 

Thuthuvalai soup / Rasam / powder is used to cure cold, cough, blocked nose, chest congestion, anti bacterial, anti diabetic, best medicine to cure asthma. 

Event : Shhhhh Secretly cooking challenge

Taking this healthy and tasty Rasam recipe to  "Shhhhh Secretly cooking challenge" fb group started by Priya, and taken further till date by Mayuri di, I bookmarked her baked apple to try soon. Do check her space for wonderful recipes. We completed recipes from all states from A to Z, so now admin team and members decided a new interesting way for monthly theme that is - one group member in alphabetical order will suggest theme. Later admin team will pair interested members, then we share 2 secret ingredients among us and prepare recipe using it and all other members will guess it.

                                     

This month theme "Monsoon Treats" is suggested by Shobha di, bookmarked her drumstick soup recipe to try soon. This month I am paired with "Anu" she gave me thuthuvalai and curry leaves as secret ingredients, I prepared this healthy soup using it. In turn I gave ginger and onions as secret ingredients to Anu.

                              Thuthuvalai Rasam

Preparation time : 10 minutes

Cook Time : 20 minutes

Serves : 4

Category : Dal/Sambar/Rasam/Pulusu/kuzhambu/pulusu

Recipe Cuisine: Tamil Nadu

Main ingredients : Thuthuvalai 

Author : Aruna SarasChandra

Ingredients

To grind 

thuthuvalai leaves - 1 cup

cumin seeds - 1 tsp

black pepper corn - 1/2 to 3/4 tsp(adjust)

red chilli - 1

garlic - 3

others 

tamarind - small lemon size

sesame oil or vegetable oil - 1 tsp

ghee - 1 tsp

mustard seeds - 1 tsp

cumin seeds - 1 tsp

red chilli - 1

green chilli - 2

curry leaves - 1 sprig

garlic - 5

small onions - 10

tomato -1 

coriander leaves - 2 tsp

Instructions

1) Wash thuthuvalai leaves in water and remove its hard thorns. Also soak tamarind in 1/2 cup of water later extract its juice and keep it aside.

2) Roughly grind cumin seeds, pepper corns, garlic, red chilli and garlic and then add thuthuvali leaves and grind it to coarse paste.

3) Take this mixture in a cup and keep it aside.

4) Heat 1 tsp of sesame oil and 1 tsp of ghee then add mustard seeds, when it starts crackling add garlic, red chilli, green chilli, garlic, curry leaves and fry it well.

5) Later add small onions, pinch of salt and fry everything well till onions changes color.

Note: Green and red chilli I used is not spicy, adjust both chillies quantity according to your taste.

6) Now add finely chopped tomatoes cook it on low flames by closing lid till tomatoes become mushy. 

7) Now add tamarind extract, 2 cups of water(adjust) and boil it on low flames.

8) Now add red chilli powder, turmeric powder and boil it on low flames for 5 minutes.

9) Finally add finely chopped coriander leaves .

That's it our thuthuvalai rasam is ready, I served this rasam with hot steamed rice, broad beans curry, banana chips.

Do check out some relative recipes by just clicking links below pic..

                kakarakaya pulusu / Andhra bitter gourd gravy

rasam powder

usirikaya charu/ Amla Rasam

lemon rasam

  Miriyala Charu / pepper rasam

                        Drumstick Rasam

                                

Sundakkai Vatha Kuzhambu || Usthikaya pulusu

                       
                             Mamidikaya pappu

Menthi akku pappu  

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Jalapeno cheese dip || Cheesy and super yummy jalapeno dip

 Jalapeno Cheese Dip || cheesy jalapeno dip is super tasty and lip smacking dip recipe which is very easy to prepare. Jalapeno is very hot chilli pepper, used in Mexican cooking. Jalapeno is originated from Mexica - Xalapa(Jalapa) .  And its name Jalapeno is given by Spanish, it is widely used in many countries and now a days it is available in many grocery stores. I regularly use jalapenos in my pizzas, sand witches and burgers. Few days we ordered Pizza with jalapeno cheese dip, hubby loved it a lot. So I thought to try it at home in my style. It came out very tasty, wish you will love it. We had this Jalapeno cheese dip it some French fries 😋.

                                       Jalapeno Cheese Dip

Preparation time - 10minutes

cook time : 15 min

Serves : 2 persons

Category : Chutneys / dips

Recipe Cuisine: Mexican

Main ingredients : Jalapeno, cheese

Author : Aruna SarasChandra

Ingredients

butter - 2 tsp

wheat flour - 2 tsp

milk - 3/4 cup

Jalapeno - 3 tsp

processed cheese - 1/2 cup

cheese slice - 1

garlic - 3

salt - as per taste

red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp

black pepper - 1 tsp

Instructions

1) Heat 2 tsp of butter in a pan, later add 2 tsp of wheat flour and fry till it changes color.

2) Now add milk and mix everything well, make sure that there is no lumps in milk.

3) Now add finely chopped garlic and mix well. If you do not  like strong garlic smell and taste, then you can fry it in butter.

4) Then add finely grated processed cheese, cheese slice and mix well. Mix everything well so that cheese d't stick to pan.

5) Now switch off the flames, then add required amount of salt, pepper powder, red chilli powder and mix everything well.(already salt there in cheese so be careful while adding salt).

6) Later add very finely chopped jalapenos and mix well. 

options: If you want you can grind the above mixture to fine                      paste or blend it using hand blender to get smooth paste 

              texture. 

That's it our Jalapeno Cheese dip is ready, serve it with any snacks or pizza or bread sticks or Nachos or chips ......... 

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