Rasam / Chaaru - Andhra Style
Serves : 4 - 6 peoplePreparation time: 30 minutes
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| Rasam / Chaaru - Andhra Style |
Ingredients:
- Tamarind - big lemon sized
- Pepper seeds - 10
- Cumin seeds (జీలకర్ర / jira ) - 1 table spoon
- Yellow lentils(కందిపప్పు / toor daal) - 1 table spoon
- Garlic - 8 cloves
- Coriander leaves - 2 strands
- Tomatoes - 3
- Oil - 2 table spoon
- Dry chillies - 3
- Salt - to taste
for thalimpu
- Mustered (ఆవాలు ) - 1 table spoon
- cumin seeds (జీలకర్ర / jira ) - 1/2 table spoon
- black gram (మినపప్పు ) - 1 table spoon
- Curry leaves -2 strands
Procedure:
- In a mixer grinder powder pepper seeds, cumin seeds and yellow lentils along with the 6 garlic cloves.
- In a bowl soak tamarind for a while. Later with a blender or hand make juice out of tamarind and tomatoes.
- Put Thalimpu / Popu (In a heated oil put 1 tbsp of mustered, 1/2 tbsp of jira, 1 tbsp of black gram and curry leaves. fry it for a while).
- In popu / thalimpu, fry dry chillies, rasam powder, which is described in point 1, and garlic for while.
- Now in a bowl/kadai pour 1 leatre of water, salt, the tomato tamarind juice and fired content to it. Boil it on stove till you observe the bubbles pops out of the rasam.
- Now garnish it with coriander leaves. Rasam is read to serve now.
Combinations:
The Rasam recipe described above is also know as Tomato rasam