Hot and sweet at the same time? Is that possible? Outside of Indian Chinese? Yes. Konkani food can be sweet, sour and hot all at once.
Sasam is a very simple dish made with mango, pineapple or mixed fruits. The name is derived from the main ingredient, sasam, or mustard.
Ingredients:
1 cup Pineapple, chopped
2 tbsp grated Jaggery
Salt to taste
To be ground to a paste:
½ cup scrapped coconut
2-3 red chillies
1 tsp Mustard seeds
Place the pineapple pieces in a bowl and add the jaggery and salt. Allow it to marinate a bit.
Grind the ingredients for the paste. Add this to the pineapple and mix well. Chill and serve.
An amchi favourite at weddings and when the fruits are in season, this goes to Asha for the RCI Karnataka event. Mustard being the main flavouring ingredient here, this also goes to Sunita for her monthly event Think Spice... Think Mustard.
Sasam looks delicious, sweet and savory at the time.Slurp!!:)
ReplyDeleteThanks Raaga.
Ashakka: Are you sitting on my blog waiting to jump onto a new post? If yes, I am honoured :-))
ReplyDeleteYou are an 'amchi'? I have a very good amchi friends at whose place I have had many delicious meals. This sasam sounds terrific. I had been looking for an authentic recipe, so thanks!
ReplyDeleteYep... love the twin taste! I made something similar, we call it pineapple kairas! I LOVE it!!
ReplyDeleteWhen I saw the title of your post on FBD, i thought you had accidentally mis-spelt Rasam.. :) Didn;t know there was a dish like this.. looks interesting.
ReplyDeleteI so adore you for all these typical konkani recipes. sasam is v close 2 my heart.
ReplyDeletei thought the same thing as laavanya..then i felt nah!..hot and sweet..yumm..i love that combo
ReplyDeletelooks deliicous Raaga :) nice entry !
ReplyDeleteWonderful pinnapple recipe Raaga it looks lovely. :)
ReplyDeleteLovely! Sasam is same as saasive, right? Never tried with pineapple, now i must!
ReplyDeleteThis is very interesting, Raaga.
ReplyDelete@ET: I am half amchi, on my mother's side.
ReplyDelete@Manasi: We make capsicum kairas... never tried it with pineapple... saw it on your blog though :-)
@Laavanya: I even intended making Pineapple Rasam... so you're not that wrong in thinking :-)
@Rajitha: An acquired taste this is :-) or so my dear hubby says :-)
ReplyDelete@Pooja: Everyday cooking :-)
@Roopa, Jeena & Cynthia: Thanks :-)
@Musical: I don't know... going by the name, it probably is :-) Not very good with Kannada.
ReplyDeleteYummy Raaga, it is my favorite. Haav tugele gahra etta!
ReplyDeleteWe call this sasav. And we usually make it with ripe mangoes. To die for. Definitely.
ReplyDeleteyummy - sasam is like a fruit spread and a pickle rolled into one dish!! your bottle will be licked clean in a matter of few days if I were somewhere close to your place - :D. i also like the mango version.
ReplyDeleteI have noticed that all the karnataka cusine have a paste for their curries. this one looks nice.
ReplyDeleteWoww, this is interesting.. last evening our cook made pineapple jam, and i loveeeeeeeeee it.. have also had pineapple rasam.. but not tried this out..
ReplyDeleteadding to my "to cook" list... which is growing longer n longer by the day~~~ sigh~!!!
That's such a novel recipe...thanks for sending it over :)
ReplyDeletehi
ReplyDeleteRaaga,
what a wonderful name...
are you a konkani?
I too am from Goa and speak pure konkani at home.
hope to keep in touch.
bye
mahek