Rasam Recipe (Vegetarian)

Ingredients:

• Tomato – 4 no
• Tamarind –  marble size (adjust as per your need)
• Turmeric powder – pinch
• Coriander leaves – few strings
• Salt – as per taste

• To grind

• Red chilli – 2 no
• Green chilli – 2 no
• Coriander Seeds – 1 table spoon
• Black Pepper– 1 tea spoon
• Cumin seeds – 1 tea spoon
• Garlic – 6 cloves
• Curry leaves – few

• For seasoning

• Mustard – ½ tea spoon
• Cumin seeds – ½ tea spoon
• Fenugreek seeds – few
• Red chilli – 2 no
• Curry leaves – few
• Asafoetida – generous pinch

• Method

• Soak tamarind for 10 minutes, extract juice and keep.

• In a blender add red chilli, pepper, cumin seeds, coriander seeds and grind partially.

• Then add green chilli, garlic, curry leaves and run the mixer once or twice to grind partially.

• Mash tomatoes and mix with salt and turmeric powder; add the ground spices, tamarind juice, 3 cups of water; mix and adjust the taste now.

• Do the seasoning in a pan, add the already prepared spices-tomato-water mix; let it get hot and remove the rasam just before boiling (this can be easily identified by the light yellow foam and air bubbles on the surface); add coriander leaves and mix well.

• Serve hot with rice or serve as soup or appetizer.