"Rasam" South Indian soup for rice

Rasam is a spicy South Indian soup it's serve with rice. In a traditional South Indian meal, it is part of a sambar rice. Rasam has a distinct taste in comparison to sambar due to its own seasoning ingredients and is fluid in consistency.

Ingredients to cook the toor dhal in pressure cooker for 3 whistle  :- 

1. toor dhal -1/4 cup

2. turmeric powder

3. tomato -3

4. green chili -2

5. water - as required

To make rasam powder fry and grind coarsely :-

• pepper - 1 tsp

• coriander seed- 1 tsp

• dry chilly,green chili -1,1

• cumin powder - 1 tsp

• garlic 4 counts

To saute :-

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  oil , ghee - 1 tablespoon ,1 tsp

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  mustard seed -

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  dry red chili - 3

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  Chopped Tomato -2 

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  rasam powder with Hing powder

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  tamarind - lemon size (soak this in 1 cup of water)

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  finally add cooked toor dhal

How to do :

1. Cook the toor dal in pressure cooker with the ingredients.( see above )

2. Soak a lemon size tamarind in 1cup of water

3. Next take a dosa pan or iron kadai to fry the rasam powder ingredients, see 2nd one and do it like powder coarsely . Finally mix hing powder in this powder.

4.  To start making rasam - keep a kadai, add oil and ghee once oil is heated just add mustard seed after it split out add dry red chili . Then saute tomato for a few minutes , add rasam powder with hing powder , tamarind water and cook for 2 minutes .Then finally add cooked toor dhal with water , coriander leaf .Finally keep heat it for 2 minutes . switch off the stove and enjoy it with rice.

5. Recipe in Video to watch :