Tomato garlic rasam | South-Indian style tomato soup
Tomato garlic rasam, a south-indian style tomato soup, flavored with garlic, served along with rice as part of everyday lunch.
Servings 4
Calories
Equipment
- Blender
Ingredients
To Grind
- 4 nos tomatoes
- 3-4 nos garlic cloves
- 1 teaspoon shredded ginger
- 1 no green chili or ¼ teaspoon sambar powder/chili powder
- sprig of curry leaf
- handful of fresh coriander leaves
The Spice powder
- 2 teaspoon Kootu podi/rasam powder heaped tsp
- ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder
- ¼ teaspoon hing/asafoetida
Tempering
- 2 teaspoon ghee/oil any vegetable oil
- ½ teaspoon mustard seeds/kadugu
- ½ teaspoon cumin seeds/jeera
- ½ teaspoon freshly crushed black peppercorns optional, but recommended
Instructions
- Chop the tomatoes roughly, take it along with rest of the ingredients given under To Grind in a mixer and grind it to a fine paste using ½ cup of water.
- Transfer the contents to another vessel and wash the mixie jar with another ½ cup of water and add that to the already ground tomato mixture.
- Place the vessel on the stove, add kootu powder/rasam powder, hing and salt to the ground mixture. if not adding green chili while grinding the tomatoes, add ¼ teaspoon of chili powder/sambar powder to the rasam along with rasam powder.
- I normally use kootu podi for making my rasam, this is my mom's recipe, i have been using this for the past 14 years. If you want to use the regular rasam powder recipe, then avoid chili/chilli powder
- Let this cook in a medium flame for 10-15 minutes and let the rasam boil and the rawness of the spice powder fade.
- After 15 minutes, check the consistency, if it is too thick, add another ½ cup of water or else leave it as such. If adding water, let it simmer for another 5 minutes. Take it off the stove.
- Now for the tempering, in a kadai, heat oil/ghee, splutter mustard seeds, add cumin, red chili and pepper powder. Pour this sizzling tempering on top of the rasam.
- Garnish with fresh coriander leaves and serve hot along with rice or just have it as a soup.