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Lemon Rasam – Rasam Varieties
April 7, 2015
Rasam Varieties, Tamil New Year Recipes 
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Rasam is an all time comfort food. Its the quickest South Indian lunch menu with a simple curry. This lemon rasam is a good alternative to the normal tomato rasam. There is no tomato or tamarind in this rasam. Lemon is the hero of this recipe!! It gives a very refreshing flavour along the freshly ground rasam powder..
Lets get cooking…
[Preparation Time-15 mins : Cooking Time- 15 mins]
Ingredients:
- Cooked Toor dal – 1/4 cup
- Lemon – 1 (small)
- Salt – as needed
- Turmeric Powder – 1/4 tsp
- Coriander leaves – few
To Grind into a coarse powder:
- Pepper corns – 10 to 15
- Coriander seeds – 1 tsp
- Jeera – 1/2 tsp
- Coriander sticks – few
To Temper:
- Oil – 1 tsp
- Mustard – 1 tsp
- Fenugreek seeds – 1/4 tsp
- Jeera – 1/4 tsp
- Asafoteida – a pinch
- Red Chilly – 1
- Garlic – 3 cloves (crushed)
Method:
- Take cooked toor dal, mash it and add required water. Keep it ready. (I was making sambar at the same time and just reserved a small amount for making this lemon rasam) Heat a pan with oil and temper with the ingredients mentioned under “to temper”.
- Add the cooked toor dal mixture to it. Add salt and turmeric powder and let it boil. Meanwhile take the ingredients mentioned under ” to grind” in a mixer.
- Grind it into a coarse powder. Once the dal water starts boiling add this coarsely ground rasam powder and fresh coriander leaves to it and reduce the flame to low-medium.
- Once the rasam becomes frothy add lemon juice, mix and switch off the flame.
Lemon Rasam is ready!!!
Serve piping hot (Just like in my pictures
) with steamed rice..
Tips:
- U can do the tempering finally.
- I always prefer to make rasam with freshly ground rasam powder. Instead, U can use a tbsp of rasam powder if u have it ready.
- Adding crushed garlic while tempering gives a magical aroma to the Lemon Rasam. So do not skip it.
- Add lemon juice according to your taste.
like the lemon flavor !
would be delectable with hot rice…flavourful
My mom’s fav rasam:-) nice click dear
adding coriander stalks is supeb..Will try tomm.Thanks for sharing
Lemon Rasam looks so delicious and aromatic. Thanks for share! 🙂
Inviting superb Rasam…Can be served as soup also…
Yummy and tangy rasam. Love the recipe!!
looks delicious…rasam is a soul food for us
As you said, very refreshing and delicious..
Tangy delicious rasam , my mother likes it a lot
Rasam is always my favourite comfort food:)…I can smell the rasam from here and love the lemony flavour:)
Very nice rasam!!! Nothing can sooth you than a hot homemade rasam !!!
I admit, this is the first time I heard of Rasam, but it sounds so delicious! Thanks for sharing.
comforting rasam.tempting.
Hmm.very easy n at the same time delicious rasam too.
Tomorrow I will try,
Looking awesome and I should try
Thanx for sharing