Rasam(Saaru) with tomatoes

Rasam is cooked almost same type as simple rasam, you can choose tomatoes instead of tamarind

or with little tamarind and also tomatoes.

4 tomatoes if you are not using tamarind

2 tomatoes if you are using 1/2 of a lemon size tamarind

4 Tomatoes are boiled and puree is prepared, you can boil along with masalas with or with out tamarind

Or

2 tomatoes can be chopped and added to the chonk(Heat ghee....)

Simple Rasam (Tamarind)/ Saaru

Ingredients For 4 people

Set 1

Tur dal 1 katori

Rasam powder 1 tea spoon

Tamarind 1/2 lemon size

Jaggery very little(a kabuli channa size)

Turmeric 1/4 tea spoon

salt 1 tea spoon

Fresh curry leaves

Coriander leaves

a pinch of hing

mustad seeds

1 tea spoon ghee

Set 2

First soak the tamarind in1/2 cup of water,

Then pressure cook dal,

then remove the tamarind pulp.

Set 3

Take tamarind pulp, add rasam powder, salt , turmeric(haldi) powder , jaggery and keep it on a low flame to boil.

When the dal is cool, decant the water from the dal) to the above boiling syrup and let it boil for some time , meanwhile beat the dal and add it to the boiling mixture.

Just check the consistency if you need little thinner add little water if it is thin boil it for some more time.

set 4

Heat ghee in a small kadai, put rai,(mustard seeds), hing, kadi patha,

and add it to the above rasam, add some chopped or even unchopped clean coriander leaves, to the above boiling rasam, rasam is ready.