Recipe: Tasty Pepper-Garlic Rasam

Pepper-Garlic Rasam.

You can have Pepper-Garlic Rasam using 18 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Pepper-Garlic Rasam

1. Prepare of masala For Rasam.
2. You need 1 tsp of black pepper.
3. You need 1 tsp of cumin seeds.
4. It's 1 tsp of fennel seeds.
5. It's 6 - 7 cloves of garlic medium sized ( I don't remove the skin).
6. You need 1 of ginger small piece of.
7. Prepare of For seasoning.
8. It's 1/4 tsp of mustard seeds.
9. You need 3 of chillies red.
10. You need of curry leaves.
11. It's 1 of small piece of hinge (or 1/4 tsp of hinge powder).
12. It's of Olive oil ( or oil of your choice).
13. Prepare of Other ingredients.
14. You need 1 of tomato - dice it into small cubes.
15. Prepare 1/4 tsp of tumeric powder.
16. You need of tamarind tamarind juice extract from a ggoseberry size ball of.
17. Prepare 1 cup of coriander leaves chopped.
18. Prepare to taste of Salt.

Pepper-Garlic Rasam instructions

1. In a mixie/blender grind black pepper, cumin, fennel seeds, garlic and ginger coarsely. Cut the tomato into small pieces and set aside..
2. Wash coriander leaves and set aside. Soak tamarind in warm water..
3. `In a vessel add 1 tsp oil and when it is warm add hinge and mustard seeds. `When mustard splutters add the red chillies, curry leaves and grounded rasam masala and saute for about 10 seconds..
4. Do the seasoning on low heat taking care that the masala does not get over-fried. If the masala is over fried the rasam will taste bitter..
5. `Add turmeric and saute for 5 seconds.`Add the diced tomatoes now and saute for about 30 seconds..
6. `Extract tamarind juice and add it to the masala. Then add 3-4 glasses of water.`Depending on how sour you want the rasam you can add less or more water..
7. `Now bring the stove to medium heat. Optionally you can add 1/4 tsp of rasam powder if you have(preferably sakthi masala rasam powder).`Add salt for taste and finally garnish with coriander leaves..
8. Remove the rasam from the stove when it is just about to boil. Note that this is very important because, if the rasam boils then it changes the taste of the rasam(it will taste slightly bitter)..
9. Enjoy the spicy rasam with white rice or drink it as a soup..