Most of the people are familiar about this rasam, but this is something new to me, as think that rasam taste better only with garlic and I never came across rasam without garlic. This rasam best suits for Vrat, where people take no onion no garlic dishes. I love the taste of this rasam, a soothing and comforting food which gives a fantastic touch to meals. Let us move on to the recipe…

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Mysore Rasam

Ingredients:

• Tamarind – a lemon size
• Cumin seeds – 2 tsp
• Black pepper – 1 ½ tsp
• Coriander seeds – 2 tsp
• Red chilies – 7 nos
• Split pigeon pea / Tuvaram paruppu / Toor dal– 4 tbsp
• Tomato – 1 ½ nos
• Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp
• Curry leaves – a sprig
• Mustard seeds – ¼ tsp
• Methi / Fenugreek seeds – ¼ tsp
• Coriander leaves – 5 stalks
• Asafoetida – ¼ tsp
• Salt to taste

Preparation:

• Pressure-cook 3 tbsp of toor dal/tuvaram paruppu/split pigeon pea in water for 3 whistles.
• Clean and roughly chop the coriander leaves.
• Prepare Tamarind extract – soak tamarind water for 15 mins, mash the tamarind along with the water, let it dissolve, remove the flesh of the tamarind and keep the water aside.
• Mash the tomatoes in the tamarind extract along with coriander leaves along with their stalk. Reserve little coriander leaves for garnishing.
• Dry roast 4 tbsp of toor dal, black pepper, 1 ¼ tsp of cumin seeds, 5 nos of red chilies and coriander seeds until the raw smell goes off.
• Remove it to the plate, bring to room temperature and grind them to fine powder.
• Remove the lid, when the pressure subsides and mash the dal well, mix it with the tamarind extract (no lumps should be formed).
• Add in the ground spice powder to the tamarind extract, stir well (no lupms should be formed).
• Heat oil in kadai, add in the mustard, fenugreek seeds, red chilies and curry leaves, Wait until the curry leaves splatter.
• Pour in the tamarind mixture to the kadai, sprinkle the asafoetida and leftover coriander leaves when it starts to bubble.
• Switch off, when its bubbles, transfer it to a bowl, add salt and give a stir.

Serve hot with steamed rice for lunch or dinner.