Let me call this rice side dish as INSTANT, 10 minute recipe. Because all it takes is 10 minutes of your time and the best part is No Cooking involved at all. So whenever you run out of your vegetable stock except a bag of onions then call => Onion Saasmi. Or if you have dropped just in the morning after a vacation and you are looking for an instant rice side dish, then this humble saasmi can rescue you. And those of you who love the taste of raw onion in your meal would surely love this one.
Saasmi is a variety of curry in Udupi Cuisine that can be prepared in two ways: Raw and Cooked. Cucumber and onion are two veggies that can be used to make saasmi in Raw version. Where as Mangalore cucumber and beetroots are used to make cooked version of saasmi.
Onion saasmi has flavor of mustard seeds and it tastes delicious with the crunchiness of onion. The sweet bites of onion is so much rewarding on it’s own. Since coconut and onion are used in raw form, the curry will not last longer. You can cook this for single meal like lunch or dinner but cannot store for later use. And I won’t recommend refrigerating the curry since it has raw onion.
Onion Saasmi | Neerulli Saasmi Recipe
Ingredients
- Onion medium sized- 2 nos.
- Fresh grated coconut- 3/4 cup
- Red chillies- 2 nos.
- Mustard seeds- 1/2 tsp
- Salt- 1 tsp
- Tamarind- Marble sized
To temper
- Coconut oil- 1 tsp
- Mustard seeds- 1/2 tsp
- Split blackgram lentils- 1/2 tsp
- Curry leaves- Few
Instructions
Method
- Grind coconut, red chillies, mustard seeds, salt and tamarind together to little coarse paste. Add required water while grinding.
- Transfer the ground coconut paste in to a wide bowl. Next peel off the onions and chop them in to fine pieces, mix it with ground paste in the bowl.
- Finally heat a tempering pan with oil, mustard seeds, lentils and curry leaves. When they sizzle, pour it over the saasmi. Very easy and no cook recipe onion saasmi is ready to serve with rice.
Notes
- It's a no cook recipe and doesn't last longer. So prepare only for a single meal.
- The onion should be chopped very finely.
- You can replace red chillies by green chillies too.
