Ingredients
1 tablespoon neem flower
Tamarind - lemon size
1 - teaspoon rasam powder
1 - tomato chopped
Salt to taste
For the seasoning
Oil/Ghee
1/2 teaspoon asafoetida
1 teaspoon mustard seeds
1 dry red chilies
1 green chili
Curry leaves
Method of preparation
1. In a pan heat the one spoon of oil, add neem flowers saute until the golden brown, and keep aside.
2. Soak the tamarind in warm water for 15 minutes. Extract the juice and discard the pulp.
3. Take a vessel and mix the tamarind juice, rasam powder, tomato, and salt as required.
4. Add 2 cup water into the mixture.
5. In a pan add the mixture of tamarind juice, and let it cook on low flame until the rasam froths up.
6. Once the rasam froths up, add the fried vepam poo/ Neem flowers and switch of the stove to keep them aside.
7. Now in a pan, heat oil/ghee and temper the mustard seeds, asafoetida powder, dry chilies, and green chiles, and curry leaves.
8. When the mustard seeds begin temper, put it into the rasam mixture.
9. Tasty and healthy neem flower rasam is ready. Have it with papad, Poriyal, with vepam poo chutney/ neem flower chutney.
Check this link for how to prepare Neem Flower Chutney/ Vepam poo chutney. https://www.awezounique.com/post/veepam-poo-chutney--neem-flower-chutney
Neem flower rasam benefits:
vepam poo/ neem flower rasam is a delicious, but little bitter.
The vepam poo rasam which we mainly prepare for Tamil new year.
This is one of our Ancient Tamil recipes.
Neem flower medicinal benefits
Neem is extensively used in Indian Ayurvedic medicine.
Neem flower is very good for curing intestinal worms.
Neem flower is considered as an antiseptic that can cleanse our system.
Neem flower is used to treat anorexic, nausea, belching.
Neem flower is used to treat skin disease and hair care.
Where to get neem flowers?
We usually in summer collect neem flowers from the tree. In summer We spread the clean cloth under the neem tree 🍃. Then we collect all those neem flowers and clean it and dry at sunlight. And stored at the airtight container.
Also, you can get neem flowers in the ayurvedic shop/ organic shop.
Let's try this recipe in your kitchen, and leave a comments.
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