Recipe: Perfect Tomato Rasam

Tomato Rasam.

You can have Tomato Rasam using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Tomato Rasam

1. Prepare of tomatoes chopped.
2. You need of oil.
3. It's of curry leaves.
4. It's of dry red chilli.
5. You need of garlic chopped.
6. You need of pepper corns.
7. You need of cumin seeds.
8. Prepare of salt.
9. You need of turmeric powder.
10. Prepare of tamarind paste.
11. It's of water.
12. You need of ghee.
13. It's of mustard seeds.
14. It's of asafoetida (hing).
15. It's of rasam powder.
16. You need of coriander leaves, chopped.

Tomato Rasam instructions

1. Heat oil & temper with dry red chilli, cumin seeds & peppercorns. Saute for a few seconds. Then add the garlic and 1 sprig curry leaves. Stir fry till the garlic changes colour..
2. Now add the chopped tomatoes, salt, turmeric powder & tamarind paste..
3. Mix everything well and them add the water..
4. Pressure cook for 3 whistles..
5. When cool, blend into a puree and strain. keep aside..
6. Heat ghee & temper with mustard seeds. After it stops spluttering, add asafoetida, rasam powder & remaining curry leaves. Saute for a few sec..
7. Add the prepared rasam and bring it to a boil. Simmer for 2-3 minutes..
8. Switch off the flame and garnish with coriander leaves..
9. Serve hot as an appetizer, with hot steamed rice or as a soup..