Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, rasam. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Rasam recipe - Simple, easy & quick recipe to make delicious rasam at home. Also known as saaru in Kannada and chaaru in Telugu, rasam is a most basic and essential dish in a South Indian meal. Rasam normally forms the second course in a traditional south Indian menu.

Rasam is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Rasam is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have rasam using 19 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Rasam:

1. Prepare 1 cup Split Pigeon pea/Toor dal/Arahar dal
2. Make ready 1 liter Chicken stock or vegetable stock
3. Get 2 tbsp Tamarind paste or a lemon size ball of tamarind
4. Make ready 3 Ripe Tomatoes
5. Take 2 Green Chillies
6. Prepare 5 Whole Shallots
7. Take 1 piece of ginger
8. Make ready 5 clove Garlic
9. Get 1 cup Boiled and Shredded Chicken Breast (Vegetarians substitute vegetables of your choice)
10. Get 1 Spanish red Onion Diced
11. Prepare 1 tbsp Coriander seeds
12. Prepare 1 tsp Fenugreek seeds
13. Prepare 1 tbsp Cumin seeds
14. Take 1/2 tsp Asafoetida
15. Prepare 1 tsp Turmeric Powder
16. Prepare 2 tbsp Butter or Olive Oil
17. Prepare 2 cup Steamed Rice
18. Get 1/2 cup basil and coriander leaves combined
19. Take 1 Salt and pepper to taste

Rasam can be made in two ways - with rasam powder and without rasam powder. You can replace my rasam powder with store bought rasam powder too. This can be made with few variations too, which I always do. Hot rasam, hot rice plus ghee - heavenly combination.

Steps to make Rasam:

1. Wash the lentils well and soak it in water for 2-3 hrs.
2. In a pressure cooker, add the soaked lentils, 2 cups of water, shallots, tomatoes, garlic, ginger, green chillies, asafoetida, tumeric and salt. Pressure cook until 3 whistles. Cool and transfer the contents to a blender and pureé the contents.
3. Dry roast the spices except asafoetida in a pan. Cool and powder it in a coffee or spice grinder.
4. Dissolve the tamrind paste in half cup of warm water. Keep it aside
5. In a pot, add butter or olive oil. Heat it and add the chopped onions, sauté it well till it becomes brown and caramelised. Add the chicken breasts (or vegetables) and saute for another 2 mins. Add the lentil puree and chicken stock and bring it to boil for 30 minutes
6. Add the tamarind water and simmer for another 10 minutes.
7. Add 2 tablespoon full of the roasted spice powder and simmer it for another 10 minutes. Add Salt and pepper to taste
8. Add the steamed rice to the broth and switch off the heat. Stir well.
9. In a pan, add a tablespoon full of clarified butter. Heat it to smoking point and add a teaspoon of cumin seeds. Let them crackle. Add this to the broth
10. Add coriander and basil leaves.
11. Ladle hot soup into bowls. Serve hot

Rasam Recipe, Imli Khatti , How To Make Rasam Recipe. Rasam is a spicy and tasty thin soup , light soup prepared in south Indian style and usually served with steamed rice. Mulligatawny soup also grew out of rasam. Rasam is back in my life again, and I won't be skipping it anytime soon. For me, as for many home cooks and restaurant chefs who grew up in South India.

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