Home made hot and spicy Tomato and garlic Rasam .

Its cold winter and nothing can match a hot and garam rasam with hot rice for a night dinner.

This rasam is simple to make and very good if some one has cold and sore throat.So it is medicinal too.

Ingredients.

Tomato big 1

Garlic pods 3 to 4

Curry leaves

Corriander

Tamarind size of small lemon

cummin seeds 3 spoons

pepper black half spoon

little butter or ghee for seasoning along with mustard.

cooked Thoor dal small quantity may be 5 spoons

salt to taste and half spoon of sugar.

Asafoetida.

Method 

First pre cook the dal and keep it aside.

Roast the cumin seeds and black pepper in a kadai without oil till you can sense the smell of the ingredients.

With tamarind and water prepare a small quantity of tamarind juice,add salt and crush the tomato in it.Crush the corriander and curry leaves too with the help of hands and remember not to use  knife for cutting the tomato and for chopping the corriander and curry leaves.

The taste lies in crushing the tomato with hands and this gives a finer taste to the prepared tamarind juice. Add  little of asafoetida.

Now grind the roasted seeds with the help of mortar grind. With this powder finally crush the garlic pods also and transfer this into the prepared tamarind juice.

Heat a kadai and add 2 spoons of ghee and season it with mustard and cumin seeds. Once heated pour the prepared tamarind juice and bring to boil ,once it starts boiling immediately put the cooked dhal and switch off the burner and add little sugar and transfer the rasam into a container and close it with a lid for retaining the smell.