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Tomato rasam
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Tomato Rasam

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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Servings: 4
Course: Side Dish
Cuisine: South Indian
Ingredients Method

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

Method
 

Steam cook and grind the tomato:
  1. Firstly wash the tomatoes, slit using a knife at the backside of the tomato
  2. Steam cook for 5 minutes
  3. Cool it down
  4. remove the skin
  5. Blend it into smooth paste
Crush the spices:
  1. 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
  1. Heat the oil in pan, splutter mustard seeds. Add curry leaves, green chilly, a pinch of asafoetida
  2. Pour the ground paste
  3. Add the crushed spices(cumin, black pepper, coriander seeds, garlic)
  4. mix well, Add some salt
  5. Pour 2 cups of water, heat it in medium flame
  6. when it starts boiling, add sugar. turn off the flame, garnish with coriander leaves