Dal Rasam

Dal rasam is no garlic no onion recipe. This is typical vegetarians rasam.Thoroughly cooked and mashed toor dal spiced up with ground rasam powder and tangy tamarind.This rasam especially tastes awesome when made with freshly ground rasam powder.For rasam powder check my rasam powder recipe which was posted earlier.Here I present dal rasam recipe to relish on any occasion and also during fasting days.Njoy Cooking, Serving n Savoring!

Ingredients:

Toor dal: 1 tbsp

Tomato: 2 nos

Green chilli: 1 no.

Tamarind: small lemon sized

Rasam powder: 2 tsp

Jaggery: 1 tsp

Turmeric: A pinch

Salt: as required

Curry leaves: a sprig

Coriander leaves: few

Tempering:

Mustard seeds: 1 tsp

Cumin seeds: 1 tsp

red chilli: 1 no.

Ghee: 1 tbsp

Hing: A pinch

Grated coconut: 1 tbsp(Fresh/frozen)

Method of preparation:

1. Pressure cook toor dal and finely chopped tomatoes, green chilli on low flame for 3 whistles.Or else pressure cook toor dal,tomatoes separately in two vessels along with rice.
2. Meanwhile soak tamarind for 15 minutes and extract the pulp.

3. Once the pressure cools down remove the lid and transfer the toor dal and chopped tomatoes into a vessel.Mash thoroughly.

4. Pour 4 cups of water into the vessel.Add tamarind pulp and required amount of salt. Also add 2 tsp of rasam powder , jaggery into it.Bring it to boil for 15 minutes.

5. Put small kadai pour 1 tbsp of ghee add mustard seeds , when mustard pops out add cumin seeds, a pinch of hing,grated fresh coconut, red chilli and fry for a moment.Pour this onto the dal rasam and switch off the stove.

6. Now the dal rasam is ready and can be served with hot rice or even idly too.