Melagu rasam pepper rasam

Melagu rasam is good for digestion In melagu rasam I don't use chilly instead i use melagu/pepper more.

Ingredients:

Tomato - 1 medium sized

Garlic - 1 piece

Tamarind - 1/2 the medium sized lemon(if you are using tamarind paste then take 1/2 teaspoon)

Turmeric powder - 1/4 teaspoon

Sugar - 1 pinch

Salt - as needed

For powdering:

Pepper - 2 teaspoon

Jeera - 1 teaspoon

Coriander seeds - 1/4 teaspoon

Asafoetida - 2 pinches

Thoor dhal (thuvaram parupu) - 1/4 teaspoon

For seasoning:

Oil - 2 tablespoons

Mustard seeds - 1/4 teaspoon

Uradh dhal(ulundham parupu) - 1/4 teaspoon

Jeera - 2 pinches

Asafoetida - 1/4 teaspoon

Methi seeds - 1 pinch

Curry leaves - 5 nos

Coriander(chopped) - 1 table spoon

Method:

1.Soak tamarind and salt in 1 cup of water for 15 mins and take juice out of it.

2.In a kadai fry the things that we are going to powder just for few seconds so that they will become crispy and will be easy to powder .Powder them and put them in tamarind juice.

3.Now chop the tomato and crush the garlic and add them to tamarind juice .Also add the turmeric powder.

4.In a kadai pour his mixture of powder,tamarind juice and tomato ,garlic and allow them to boil when they start bubbling really well turn off the flame.This is rasam still one more step to complete it.

5.In another kadai pour the oil when it gets hot add mustard when it splatters add urad,jeera,asafoetida, when urad dhal turns golden brown add the curry leaves and off the flame pour this in the rasam,add coriander leaves and sugar mix them well.Melagu Rasam ready......