South indian special Rasam

Rasam is very famous south Indian dish,it has lots of medicinal properties .If you are having digestion problem then eat rasam with rice it clears the digestion problem.There are many types of rasam like Garlic rasam,Pepper rasam ,Lemon rasam and Tomato rasam.This recipe is about simple rasam.

Ingredients:

Tomato - 1 medium sized

Garlic - 1 piece

Tamarind - 1/2 the medium sized lemon

Red chilly - 1 no

Turmeric powder - 1/4 teaspoon

Sugar - 1 pinch

Salt - as needed

For powdering:

Pepper - 1 teaspoon

Jeera - 1 teaspoon

Coriander seeds - 1/4 teaspoon

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 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,red chilly 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.Rasam ready......