Hi All 🙂 Am here today to share an amazingly healthy, tasty and highly medicinal rasam recipe from parts of Kongu Region of Tamilnadu, Salem and Erode. Sunduvara Selavu Rasam / Selavu Rasam – I came to know about this rasam through my colleague Sakthi who is from Erode. He used to talk about the benefits of this rasam and keep saying that none of the rasam can beat the taste of this recipe. I started searching blogs but the way he explained was not matching the recipes that were out there, which got me even more curious to learn this. He helped me by calling his mother over phone and she was so sweet and patient enough to explain me the recipe and she also sent me the secret ingredient to this rasam which was home ground by her.

Coming to the name of this rasam, Selavu Rasam – Selavu which in Tamil means Spending and the Anjarai Petti or Spice Box that we use is called as Selavu Petti in Erode Region. As we use all the spices in the box in a daily basis, it is called so. In earlier days, every household used to have all the medicinal spices in the spice box like Sukku, Milagu, Thippili, Adhimadhuram, Sittharathai, Karunjeeragam to name a few (there are more than 10 ingredients) so that fir any digestive and flu issues, they used to make herbal remedies using these. The spice mix used in this rasam is a mixture of all herbal spices, called Selavu Saman. In Erode regions, every ayurvedic medicinal shop and even small grocery shops they sell this as a mix. She mentioned, they used to get the mix, sun dry them and grind it at home as a powder to use it as and when needed.

This is an excellent medicine for cold and fever. Very good for ladies post pregnancy (used in pathiya samayal / post partum recipes) and it helps in breast milk secretion. Am so very glad to have learnt the recipe from her and I can’t thank enough for this. Here you go for the recipe as narrated by her and adding Thuduvalai makes it even more special.

After three months of hunting I finally found the Selavu Podi / Selavu Powder available in the Nattu Marundhu Kadai in West Mamabalam. I would say this as a keeper recipe to stay healthy and get relief from cold.

Do try this and share your feedback 🙂