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    Home » Salads & soups » Osaman/Clear Lentil Soup

    Osaman/Clear Lentil Soup

    Mar 18, 2013 · Modified: Dec 20, 2020 by Priya_Srinivasan ·

    Today’s recipe is a very simple Lentil Soup. We make it every day @ home,but never knew it has got a name and is also called a soup, not until i got  Sanjeev Kapoor’s Dal and Kadhi CookBook. Osaman, Clear lentil soup, which can be made from both Tuvar Dal and Whole Moong dal. Today i have made it with Tuvar dal. Thin and Watery, with the taste of lemon,it is soothing for both throat and stomach. 


    Ingredients
    1 Cup Tuvar Dal/Pigeon pea
    ½ inch ginger
    2 green chilies
    2 tablespoon jaggery

    1 tablespoon lemon juice
    1 tablespoon freshly chopped coriander
    Salt to taste

    Tempering

    2 tablespoon oil
    a large pinch of hing/asafoetida

    ½ teaspoon Mustard seeds
    ½ teaspoon cumin seeds
    3-4 cloves
    1 inch cinnamon
    5-6 black peppercorns
    2 sprigs of curry leaves
    ½ teaspoon turmeric powder
    Method
    • Wash tuvar dal and soak in 2 cups of water for about an half an hour. Drain, add five cups of fresh water and salt and pressure-cook for 3-4 whistles or until done.
    • Strain the cooked dal and reserve the stock. Use the dal to make some other dish. I used mine with little more water to make rasam.
    • Grind ginger and green chilies to a fine paste.  Stir one tablespoon of water into the paste.
    • Heat oil in a pan, Splutter mustard seed, add hing, cumin, cloves, cinnamon, pepper corns, curry leaves, ginger-chili paste.

    • Next add the dal stock and stir. Add the turmeric powder and stir again. Adjust salt and add jaggery
    • Just before serving, add lemon juice or cut a small rind of the lemon and add it to the soup and garnish with coriander leaves and Serve Hot.

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    Comments

    1. Akila

      March 18, 2013 at 12:38 pm

      Adding jaggery is new… Bookmarked

      Reply
    2. Corporate to Kitchen

      March 18, 2013 at 12:44 pm

      The soup looks so good. I feel like sipping some:)

      Reply
    3. Gajus kitchen

      March 18, 2013 at 12:53 pm

      Soup looks lovely with the lemon rind

      Reply
    4. Jeyashris Kitchen

      March 18, 2013 at 1:20 pm

      i love these kind of clear soups, nice soup

      Reply
    5. divya

      March 18, 2013 at 1:38 pm

      This looks so so yummy! Love the clicks 🙂

      Reply
    6. Unknown

      March 18, 2013 at 3:10 pm

      wow, loving it. Please do send your delicious and healthy dish to my "Healthy Me & Healthy Us" event @ my blog (read the rules please)

      Reply
    7. Kalyani

      March 18, 2013 at 4:25 pm

      ooh ! what a lovely idea of tempering the soup with Indian spices.. will try this out tomorrow.. I too make this, sans the lemon of course..

      Reply
    8. Lifewithspices

      March 18, 2013 at 4:51 pm

      Love it's dal soup..

      Reply
    9. vaishali sabnani

      March 18, 2013 at 5:36 pm

      The soup looks wonderful, and love the presentation.Oosaman can be made from whole moong also.

      Reply
    10. My World My Home

      March 18, 2013 at 6:25 pm

      Wow…yummy & healthy soup

      Reply
    11. Priya Suresh

      March 18, 2013 at 6:42 pm

      Sound almost like our rasam na, love the addition of jaggery and indian spices here..Wonderful clear soup Priya.

      Reply
    12. sushma

      March 18, 2013 at 7:48 pm

      Soup looks awesome…Must be sweet and spicy

      Reply
    13. Swathi

      March 18, 2013 at 10:12 pm

      Delicious lentil soup, looks like rasam.

      Reply
    14. Unknown

      March 18, 2013 at 10:42 pm

      Love indian soups 🙂 this one is sure flavorful

      Reply
    15. Saras

      March 19, 2013 at 2:21 am

      Love this clear soup..Looks so comforting..

      Reply
    16. Manju

      March 19, 2013 at 3:19 am

      Similar to rasam, with a little sweet added. Yep smoothing to stomach.

      Reply
    17. Chef Mireille

      March 20, 2013 at 3:56 am

      love this one….a light soup with beans

      Reply
    18. Srivalli

      March 20, 2013 at 9:46 am

      Priya, your picture has come out so well!..very nice..

      Reply
    19. Anonymous

      March 20, 2013 at 9:49 am

      Yummy… Lovely soup

      Reply
    20. Harini R

      March 20, 2013 at 12:59 pm

      Perfect on a wintry evening..lovely click too.

      Reply
    21. Nalini's Kitchen

      March 20, 2013 at 3:33 pm

      comforting soup,looks so tempting and loved the way you presented the soup..

      Reply
    22. Suma Gandlur

      March 20, 2013 at 10:11 pm

      Will give this a try, sounds flavorful and so Indian. 🙂
      BTW, the recent pics have been really good. Why don't you publish them in a bigger size?

      Reply
      • Priya_Srinivasan

        March 21, 2013 at 9:49 am

        thanks suma, trying to change the template let me see!!!

        Reply
    23. Pavani

      March 20, 2013 at 10:51 pm

      What a comforting and rib sticking good soup. Sounds so comforting.

      Reply
    24. Gayathri Kumar

      March 21, 2013 at 7:53 am

      Looks like a super comforting soup Priya. I love the soup bowl so much…

      Reply
    25. veena

      March 24, 2013 at 12:30 pm

      love the tempering…looks very inviting!!!

      Reply

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