Monday, October 18, 2010

రసం/ చారు: Tomato Rasam/Charu- Tomato-Tamarind soup




INGREDIENTS:

1.Tomato.......................1 big
2.Tamarind....................lemon size.
3.Coriander powder......2 t sp.
4.Black pepper powder.....2 t sp.
5.Red Chilly powder...........3 t sp.
6.Jaggery...............................big lemon size.
7.Fenugreek powder............2 t sp.
8.Curry leaves
9.Turmeric.
10Salt.
11.Ghee....................................2 t sp.
12.Mustard seeds....................2 t sp.
13.Asafoetida ...........................1 t sp.

METHOD:

1.Cook tomato in hot water. when it becomes soft, peel off the skin. keep it aside to cool.
2.Soak the tamarind, take out the pulp.
3.Take a vessel put 2 cups of water, add the tamarind pulp, salt, turmeric and with curry leaves cook for some time.
4.Take the peeled tomato, put it in the mixi grind it to a pulp. Take out.
5.After the tamarind juice boiled nicely getting the flavour of it add , this tomato pulp to it.
6.Add all powders and jaggery to the rasam. Boil it again.
7.Take a small pan put ghee, when it is hot add mustard (hing) asafoetida


4 comments:

  1. ee roju vanTa!
    aakali leka poyeena mooDu saarlu tinnanu :)
    entho ruchiga unDindi!
    tappakunDa vanDanDi!

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  2. to simplify, can we just boil the tomato, peel, cut into small pieces and add to the boiling tamarind juice?? I was just wondering if we can avoid using the blender.

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  3. @kaavya, thats what I do when I feel lazy about blending :-P but it's yummm when blended

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  4. @Vee, thanks! I was just trying to avoid extra dish washing..haha!! :P

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