Cuisine: South Indian
Category: Lunch
Prep: 10 min
Cook: 20 min
Serves: 4
Difficulty: Easy
🌿 Vegetarian
Thin, peppery tamarind broth — a digestive, warming soup eaten with rice or sipped as a starter.
Ingredients
- 1 marble tamarind
- 1 tomato, crushed
- 1/2 cup cooked toor dal water
- 1 tsp rasam powder
- 1/4 tsp turmeric
- 1 tsp black pepper, coarsely ground
- For tempering: mustard seeds, cumin, curry leaves, garlic, ghee
- Salt and coriander
Method
- Extract tamarind juice in 2 cups water.
- Add crushed tomato, turmeric, rasam powder, pepper and salt.
- Boil 10 minutes.
- Add dal water and bring to a frothy boil.
- Heat ghee, fry garlic, mustard, cumin and curry leaves.
- Pour tempering into rasam.
- Garnish with coriander and serve.