Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By J. Inder Singh Kalra

Published 1990

  • About

Rasam, literally, ‘juice’ or ‘extract’, is an appetizer—cum-digestive—cum-accompaniment. Its versatility apart, it comes in several flavours—the more popular ones being tomato and lemon (below).

Ingredients

  • 350 g/ cups Tomatoes
  • 75 g/7 Tbs<

Method

Preparation

THE TOMATOES: Wash, roughly cut, put in a blender and make a puree.

THE LENTIL PUREE: Pick and wash dal in running water. Remove stem, wash, slit and deseed green chilli. Put both in a handi, add turmeric, salt and water (approx 800ml/3⅓ cups