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Instant tomato rasam recipe

Easy and instant tomato rasam recipe without tamarind
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time10 minutes
Total Time20 minutes
Course: Lunch | Dinner, Main Course
Cuisine: Indian, South Indian
Keyword: South indian gravy, South Indian lunch recipes, South Indian rasam recipes
Servings: 4 people
Author: Jeyashri suresh

Ingredients

  • 3 ripe tomatoes
  • 3 cups water
  • 1 tsp turmeric powder
  • Salt as needed
  • Few coriander leaves
  • Few curry leaves
  • 2 tsp oil
  • ½ tsp mustard seeds
  • 2 green chilis
  • 2 red chilis
  • ¼ tsp asafoetida

To grind

  • 3 tsp black pepper
  • 2 tsp cumin seeds
  • Few curry leaves
  • 7 cloves garlic

Instructions

  • Chop the tomatoes into half. Choose the ripest tomato for making this rasam.
  • I am using 2 bangalore tomato and 1 nattu thakkali . Since we are not adding tamarind in this recipe, the nattu thakkali (local tomato) gives sourness to the rasam.
  • Place the tomatoes in a bowl.
  • Add 2 cups of luke warm water to this.
  • Mash the tomatoes well using your hands.
  • Let the tomatoes gets nicely mashed, you can see the skin of the tomatoes coming out. Keep it aside.
  • In a mixie jar add 3 tsp pepper, 2 tsp cumin seeds, 7 garlic cloves and few curry leaves.
  • You can use the mortar and pestle also to do this.
  • Pulse this into a coarse mixture.
  • Keep it aside.
  • In a pan add oil and add the mustard seeds, slit green chilis, 2 broken red chilis and few curry leaves.
  • Let the mustard seeds splutter.
  • Add ground garlic pepper mixture to this.
  • Saute for 2 minutes in low flame.
  • Add the tomato mixture to this by straining the pulp using your hands.
  • We are not using the pulp of the tomatoes. So squeeze out the juice well from the tomatoes.
  • Add 1 cup of water.
  • Add salt and turmeric powder.
  • Now mix everything well.
  • It will froth up in 2-3 minutes.
  • Do not allow this to boil.
  • Once it froths ups fully and about to boil, switch off the flame.
  • Garnish with finely chopped coriander leaves.
  • Cover and keep for 10 minutes.
  • Instant tomato rasam is ready.

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Instant Tomato rasam recipe - Easy Rasam recipe

Notes

1. If your tomatoes are not sour, you can add 2 tbsp of tamarind extract along with the tomato extract.
2. Instant tomato rasam pairs well with potato fry and cauliflower curry.