Nunquam perago a quietus Anantha
It is during testing times like these, when one looks inward for inspiration.
My name’s Anantha and this is my my recipe!
Ingredients for Pineapple rasam
1 tin of pineapple chunks (in unsweetened juice)
1/2 tin of diced tomato (optional)
Rasam powder (to taste)
Thuvar dal (quantity based on judgement)
Tamarind (half a teaspoon if in paste form or the size of a small lemon if used raw)
Salt (to taste)
For extra masala
1 handful of thuvar dal (thuvaram paruppu)
1 handful of channa dal (kadalai paruppu)
1 spoon dhania
4 small red chillies
A small amount of grated coconut
For garnish
Kothammalli and Karuvepalai – Use your judgement!
Method
Cook the thuvar dal in the cooker till the whistle sounds thrice and set the cooker aside without opening it.
Roast the thuvar dal, channa dall, dhania, coconut and red chillies till the coconut turns slightly brown and cool.
Grind this masala with a bit of water to a coarse paste and keep it aside.
Put the stove on simmer and boil tamarind paste in water and once it starts boiling add rasam powder and salt (to taste). Keep it on the stove till it starts boiling again.
Open the tin of pineapple chunks and the tomato. Add the pineapple and some tomato to the boiling tamarind water and then add the ground paste and the cooked dal to it too. Bring this mixture to a boil again and remove from the stove.
Wash the kothamalli and karuvepalai in a bit of cold water. Chop the kothammalli (not too fine though) and use it to garnish the rasam along with karuvepalai.
Serve warm with rice and any side-dish as required. As a matter of fact this rasam goes very well with cabbage poriyal, the preparation of which would be demonstrated in a later post.
Note: My sister jumped up at the mention of coconut as an ingredient in rasam but as my mom clarified (to her), this is a Mysore style rasam. Actually it was essentially intended to be a hybrid incorporating the virtues of both the Mysore rasam and the Tamil marriage style pineapple rasam popularized by the likes of “Arusuvai” Natarajan (or me thinks that). Also, I expected my mom to point out (she did not) that the grinding of the raw thuvar and channa dals as being redundant because of the use of the rasam powder being used. And I think I missed grinding black pepper with the masala. I don’t know why I did that, but the final result was very good. So do it my way and work your way into people’s hearts and stomachs.
Comments from tasters:
1. Sooper rasam machi!
2. Dei, kalakara po! Eppadi da pannina?
ÜberDesi
SKM
August 8th, 2006 at 10:00 pmAdadaa!Anantha!athenna ange anon comment?.avalo nondhu pioteengala?
Don’t worry,cheer up.Pineapple pottale taste koodum.Will try and let u know the result.
superstarksa http://superstarksa.com
August 8th, 2006 at 10:06 pmSKM: Adhu naan illa nu sonna, namba va poreenga
SKM
August 8th, 2006 at 11:19 pmadhudhane! eppadi namburadhu? nalla ellorum serndhu
kuzhapitanga .yara nambradhu,vidradhunnu theriyale.
konja naal odungi nadakaradhai vedikai pakkalamnu Ennam.
capriciously_me
August 9th, 2006 at 12:10 amthalaivaaaaaaaa!! weight-a kaateeteenga
rotfl 
WA
August 9th, 2006 at 3:10 amAnnathe, I the impressed.
PS: Why is CM rotfl?
WA
August 9th, 2006 at 3:33 amLooking fwd to the cabbage poriyal recipe too
Amethyst
August 9th, 2006 at 8:03 amFirst kothamali now pineapple rasam….what’s cooking? – Amethyst
superstarksa http://superstarksa.com
August 9th, 2006 at 11:54 amWA: Cabbage poriyal dhaane? Will post, sometime.
CM: This kalakkal, normal only. Nothing special. All coming from inside me only
SKM: Kannal kaanbadhum poi, kaadhaaal ketpadhum poi, theera visarippadhe mei…. But in this case, cos it is the web, even careful enquiries dont really help!
Amethyst: Your email addy is visible only to the blog owner. Only a web url would show up in public, if you would leave one. And in any case, your email id does not seem to work either! Please send me an email from a different id.
SKM
August 9th, 2006 at 1:23 pm?????my email id doesn’t work?
capriciously_me
August 9th, 2006 at 1:51 pmadakkam amararul uykum, adangamai aarirul uythu vidum-nu oru periyavar sonnadha enaku oruthar sonnaar…hmmm…
Me
August 9th, 2006 at 3:02 pmNunquam perago a quietus Anantha…..appidna enna?
Me
August 9th, 2006 at 3:09 pmoh My name’s Anantha and this is my my recipe! ya?
superstarksa http://superstarksa.com
August 9th, 2006 at 3:13 pmMe: It means “Don’t disturb a quiet Anantha”.
CM: Also some other big people have said “Poruthadhu podhum, pongi ezhu” on occasions.
SKM: That was not for you. Sorry, now it should be more clear.
SKM
August 9th, 2006 at 4:26 pmooops!Enaku kannadi thevaiyoo ennavo,ponga.Iam sorry.
seri,poriyal recipe yeppo publishing?waiting waiting.
superstarksa http://superstarksa.com
August 9th, 2006 at 4:41 pmSKM: I put that in only after your comment! So your comment is just fine.
As for poriyal recipe, I think that will have to wait. There are some of my “enemies” here are saying that I may have become the “mallika badrinath” of the desi blogs. Though I like that lady’s cooking tips, I am not her. I am my own man! So after sometime only.
capriciously_me
August 9th, 2006 at 6:02 pmenemies? tch! tch! :’(
Me
August 9th, 2006 at 9:11 pmMallika Badrinath… : Anantha Subramanian….
i think u r getting there aNTi……:p
qs.gemini http://no-creativity.blogspot.com
August 9th, 2006 at 9:35 pmHmmm…. is there a change in direction? Is this becoming a food blog? Is it?
superstarksa http://superstarksa.com
August 9th, 2006 at 10:01 pmQ.s: No no, we have a long way to go before that. Right now we look up to the likes of Mahanandi and Chai paani. We need to improve our photography and our presentation skills.
Me: Staaap man.. Staaaap!
CM: he he
visithra http://visithra.blogspot.com/
August 9th, 2006 at 10:44 pmwhy are there so many men in tie? nengeh enna solla vahringeh??? naan ehnamo post pahnna vandhen athu rombeh distracting ah iruhku
nengeh anantha va ….
visithra http://visithra.blogspot.com/
August 9th, 2006 at 10:46 pmohh mahruhmoo – but still why why men in tie?
superstarksa http://superstarksa.com
August 9th, 2006 at 11:14 pmVisit: That my engineering class picture from our final year! You ask – “Why men in tie?”. Thankfully I am not in this particular frame
mlc
August 10th, 2006 at 12:57 amgood one!
visithra http://visithra.blogspot.com/
August 10th, 2006 at 3:07 ami see but i still see why u posting men photos ;p
capriciously_me
August 10th, 2006 at 7:33 pmsecond from the left in the middle row?
superstarksa http://superstarksa.com
August 10th, 2006 at 10:56 pmAatha…endha photo va paatha.?
Visit: All my kootalis!
mlc: Thanx!
WA
August 11th, 2006 at 4:59 amKootaliskku inglis vandhu partners dhaane? Hmmmm Like CM I’ve made a vow not to be horrible to you so I am saying nothing now.
superstarksa http://superstarksa.com
August 11th, 2006 at 8:10 amWA: Avunga oorla kootali-na friends. :p Summa pesanum nu pesadheenga!
Prabhu
August 15th, 2006 at 6:25 pmAaraamichuttan ya aaramichuttam ….
superstarksa http://superstarksa.com
August 15th, 2006 at 9:54 pmPrabu: Ennatha?
tilotamma
August 26th, 2006 at 12:32 pmhttp://immigrantrecipes.blogsp.....chadi.html
or pineapple pulisseri.
I am going with those.
Rasam another day…
tilotamma
August 26th, 2006 at 12:40 pmoh this is the link for pulisseri
http://injimanga.blogspot.com/.....-sour.html
superstarksa http://superstarksa.com
August 26th, 2006 at 1:08 pmTilo: Thanx
tilotamma
August 26th, 2006 at 2:05 pmyou are half mallu right? so try the puliserri.
BTW how about a full review of VV on your site?
superstarksa http://superstarksa.com
August 26th, 2006 at 7:27 pmTilo: Half mallu by the virtue of the fact that both parents moved to Chennai quite sometime ago and one of them is so ignorant of Malayalam that at a golu function she once sang “Devi Sri Devi” (a Prem Nazir love ballad) thinking it was about THE Devi up there. In any case, We have only tasted mambazha puliseri. We will try this one for sure.
As for the review, you are too kind. But it is up now.
tilo
August 26th, 2006 at 8:42 pmhey what is this latin title you have given for this post? First of all is it Latin, unnum puriyale…
SKM
September 11th, 2006 at 10:39 amI tried your Pineapple rasam. It came out good.Because of pineapple chunks it is the combo of rasam sambar consistency.Tasted more or less like our Mysore rasam.I had it with MolaGa bajji ,so edhu super nu sollradhu. JK .rasam was good.Thanks.–SKM
superstarksa http://superstarksa.com
September 14th, 2006 at 12:24 pmSKM: Thank you. Yes, it tastes like the Mysore rasam only. Molaga bajji ya. Amogam!
Tilo: Never Disturb a Quiet Anantha – That’s what it translates to.
Capriciously Me!!: i am offended!! http://capriciously_me.blogspot.com/2006/08/i-am-offended.html
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