Rasam using store bought rasam powder
Rasam using store bought rasam powder
Servings: 2 people
Ingredients
1 cup = 250ml
- 1 Ripe tomato
- Tamarind Small gooseberry size (Take 1 cup extract)
- 1 tbsp Rasam powder
- Salt & water as needed
- ½ tsp Turmeric powder
- 5 Garlic cloves (crushed with skin)
- Coriander leaves to garnish
- ¼ tsp Sugar
- 2 tsp Ghee ( to drizzle )
To Temper
- 1 tbsp Cooking oil or ghee
- ½ tsp Mustard seeds
- ½ tsp Cumin seeds
- 1 Red chilli
- Curry leaves few
- 1 pinch Hing / Asafetida
Instructions
- Wash and chop tomato. Soak tamarind and take the extract in 1 cup of water.
- In a kadai or bowl, temper mustard seeds, cumin seeds, red chilli.
- Saute till tomato turns mushy. Add rasam powder and saute quickly.
- Add 1 cup of tamarind extract, salt, turmeric powder and sugar.
- Boil till raw smell of tamarind emanates and nice smell wafts through.
- Add 1/2 cup more water and crushed garlic cloves. Boil in medium flame till frothy.
- Switch off the flame and garnish with coriander leaves.
- Transfer to a bowl, add 2 tsp of ghee. Cover with a lid.
- Serve after 30 minutes for best taste.
- Serve with plain rice and potato curry – the best side dish for rasam !
Notes
- Addition of garlic cloves is optional. But it adds a nice flavor to the rasam.
- You can also temper mustard seeds, cumin seeds and red chilli in ghee at the end.