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Rasam recipe

Recipe Categories: Curries I Sambar I Saaru

Posted by Usha on March 18th, 2016

Preparation Time : 10 min Cooking Time : 10 min Serves : 4

Rasam is a very popular south Indian traditional dish,which is healthy and easily digestible. It is eaten with rice or separately served as a spicy soup. this rasam is quick and easy to make recipe which tastes sour and spicy, prepared without rasam powder.

Ingredients:

To dry roast –

Cumin – 1 1/2 tsp

Pepper – 1/2 tsp

Methi seeds – 1/4 tsp

Red chilly – 1

For seasoning –

Mustard – 1/2 tsp

Asafoetida – 2 pinch (powdered)

Curry leaves – 2 springs

Chilly – 2 no’s (broken into pieces)

Onion – 1 medium chopped

Tomato – 1 -2 no’s chopped

Tamarind – 1/2 inch

Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp

Coriander leaves – 2 – 3 tbs chopped

Oil to fry

Salt

Method:

Heat a pan, when it is hot dry roast all the ingredients to light brown in a medium flame.

Remove it from the flame, allow it to cool and crush it to a coarse powder and keep ready.

Soak tamarind in 1/4 cup of warm water, when it is soft squeeze and remove the waste from it and keep the juice ready.

Heat oil in a vessel, when it is hot add mustard seeds, allow it to sizzle in oil, add curry leaves, chilies and asafoetida, saute for few second, then add chopped onion and fry until onion turns to translucent,

Add chopped tomatoes into it and fry until tomatoes becomes soft,

Add roasted and crushed powder and fry for a while, add 3 to 4 cup of water, add tamarind juice and salt, stir and bring it to boil for 5 min. Switch off the flame.