Tomato Rasam

This is another South Indian recipe which is normally called as Rasam/Charu. Enjoy this rasam when it is hot.

Ingredients:

• Tomatoes: 2 (Medium size)
• Green chillies -2
• Tamarind:  little gooseberry size.
• Rasam powder: 1 tsp
• Jeera: ¼ tsp
• Dry red chillies: 2
• Coriander leaves:  a few handfuls chopped
• Salt: Taste enough
• Turmeric powder: 2 pinch
• Oil: 2 spoons
• Asafoetida: 1 pinch
• Sugar: ½ tsp (optional)
• Mustard seeds: ¼ tsp

Procedure:

• Take 1 cup of water and let it boil for sometime.
• Grind the tomatoes along with green chillies and tamarind in a mixer.
• Add this mixture to the boiling water and add sufficient enough salt and let it boil for another 5 min.
• Now add the Rasam Powder and sugar and let it boil for another 5 min.
• Take a kadai/mukudu/thick bottom vessel and pour some oil and bring it to heat
• Add the asafoetida, mustard seeds / avalu, jeera, fenugreek seeds, red chillies and let them splutter.
• Add this tadka to the Rasam and serve Hot.