Tomato Rasam

Prepare Time          5min
Cook Time             10 min
Serve                      5

Ingredients

Tomato Rasam

Cooked Dhal              1cup
Ripe Tomatoes              3
Rasam Powder              2tsp
Tamarind Paste             1/2 tsp
Asafoetida                     small piece
Curry Leaves                   few
Coriander Leaves            few
Ginger                           small piece
Jeera                            1/2tsp
Green Chili                   2
Salt to taste.
Method
Boil the tomatoes, grind coarsely tomato, curry leaves and ginger.
Heat a pan with water add tamarind paste, rasam powder, asafetida turmeric and salt.
Boil till the raw tamarind smell goes.
Add the tomato water to the rasam.
Sprinkle coriander leaves and heat rasam forms frothy layer at the top
Heat a pan with oil add mustard seeds, jeera and silted green chili.
Remove from the heat and serve with rice, pappadam and curry.

Vazhakai Podimas

Vazhakai Podimas

• Prepare Time........................5 min
• Cook Time............................10 min
• Serve.......................................4

Ingredients

• Raw Banana........................6
• Grated Coconut...................half cup
• Green Chilies,......................5
• Chopped Ginger..................2 tsp
• Curry Leaves.......................few
• Salt .....................................to taste
• Mustard Seeds....................1 tsp
• White Dhal (Urad Dhal).......2 tsp


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Method

• Boil the bananas . When the colour of the banana skin becomes black remove the skin and grate it in grater.
• Mix the coconut and chillies in a blender (only one round).
• Heat a pan with oil add mustard seeds, urad dhal and curry leaves.
• When the mustard splutters add the grated banana and coconut. Mix it well.
• This is a side dish for sambar rice or rasam rice.