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Poondu Rasam / Garlic Rasam.

You can cook Poondu Rasam / Garlic Rasam using 18 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Poondu Rasam / Garlic Rasam

1. It's of Tomato.
2. You need of toor dal cooked.
3. You need of Tamarind extract.
4. You need of water.
5. You need of salt.
6. It's of garlic.
7. You need of curry leaves.
8. It's of coriander leaves chopped.
9. It's of asafoetida.
10. Prepare of Ghee.
11. Prepare of Toor dal.
12. It's of black peppercorns.
13. You need of chillies dry red.
14. Prepare of garlic.
15. Prepare of cumin.
16. You need of curry leaves.
17. It's of ghee.
18. Prepare of mustard seed.

Poondu Rasam / Garlic Rasam instructions

1. Finely chop the tomatoes. Peel the garlic cloves and separate them. Cook toor dal in pressure cooker or in microwave..
2. Take a cooking pot, add the tomatoes, 3 garlic cloves, tamarind extract and water..
3. Keep this pot on medium heat, add required amount of salt and few curry leaves.Allow them to boil.
4. Meanwhile, take a kadaai, keep it on medium heat, and roast all the ingrdients given under "roasting and grinding" (Except cumin) with 2 tbsps of ghee..
5. Roast them until aromatic. Transfer this in a blender jar and add a tablespoon of cumin seeds and grind it to a coarse powder or a smooth paste, the choice is yours..
6. Check if the tomatoes have cooked and the tamarind's raw smell should go..
7. Now add the prepared powder or paste to the tomatoes. Stir it and allow it to steep in medium heat for 5 minutes. Add the cooked toor dal and mix..
8. Get the tempering ready and add it to the rasam. Garnish it with finely chopped coriander leaves..