08/08/2021
It's Rasam Weather out here, and this is exactly how I have the tangy spicy broth 🥰
In a tumbler with rice, Milagai Podi, and a dollop of Ghee ❤️
It's a pretty rustic image, but I truly wanted to strip the presentation down to the basics, and capture the food in it's authentic form, with no gimmicks involved.
This simple yet flavorsome broth represents my summer holidays as a little kid at my Nani's home.
As she was based in Yercaud, our meals mostly revolved around South Indian delicacies, and rasam was a constant across all lunches. Towards the end of the meal, she would put 2 spoons of rice on my plate, and pour some rasam on to it. She would then mix them together with little Milagai Podi and make a cute rice ball in her palm. In a playful manner, she would then feed me that flavourful rice ball and off I'd go running to wash my hands and play outside. It became the highlight of my meals eventually 😊
Sometimes I find myself feeling like a little girl wishing for her Nani to feed her rasam rice. ❤️
