Tomato Rasam
Ingredients
- 250 gram Tomato
For crushing the spices
- 1 tsp cumin
- 1 tsp pepper
- ½ tsp coriander seeds
- 2 garlic cloves
for making rasam
- 1 tbsp oil
- ½ tsp mustard seeds
- few curry leaves
- 1 green chilly
- A pinch Asafoetida
- 2 cups water
- 1 tsp sugar
- 2 tbsp coriander leaves (finely chopped)
- salt to taste
Instructions
Steam cook and grind the tomato:
- Firstly wash the tomatoes, slit using a knife at the backside of the tomato
- Steam cook for 5 minutes
- Cool it down
- remove the skin
- Blend it into smooth paste
Crush the spices:
- Add coriander seeds, cumin, black pepper into a mortar, grind it into a coarse powder, then add garlic cloves, crush it with other spices. collect it from the mortar, keep aside
For making Rasam
- Heat the oil in pan, splutter mustard seeds. Add curry leaves, green chilly, a pinch of asafoetida
- Pour the ground paste
- Add the crushed spices(cumin, black pepper, coriander seeds, garlic)
- mix well, Add some salt
- Pour 2 cups of water, heat it in medium flame
- when it starts boiling, add sugar. turn off the flame, garnish with coriander leaves