Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, rasam. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Rasam is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Rasam is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have rasam using 19 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Rasam:
- Prepare 1 cup Split Pigeon pea/Toor dal/Arahar dal
- Make ready 1 liter Chicken stock or vegetable stock
- Prepare 2 tbsp Tamarind paste or a lemon size ball of tamarind
- Take 3 Ripe Tomatoes
- Prepare 2 Green Chillies
- Get 5 Whole Shallots
- Prepare 1 piece of ginger
- Get 5 clove Garlic
- Prepare 1 cup Boiled and Shredded Chicken Breast (Vegetarians substitute vegetables of your choice)
- Get 1 Spanish red Onion Diced
- Get 1 tbsp Coriander seeds
- Take 1 tsp Fenugreek seeds
- Take 1 tbsp Cumin seeds
- Take 1/2 tsp Asafoetida
- Prepare 1 tsp Turmeric Powder
- Prepare 2 tbsp Butter or Olive Oil
- Make ready 2 cup Steamed Rice
- Get 1/2 cup basil and coriander leaves combined
- Make ready 1 Salt and pepper to taste
Steps to make Rasam:
- Wash the lentils well and soak it in water for 2-3 hrs.
- In a pressure cooker, add the soaked lentils, 2 cups of water, shallots, tomatoes, garlic, ginger, green chillies, asafoetida, tumeric and salt. Pressure cook until 3 whistles. Cool and transfer the contents to a blender and pureé the contents.
- Dry roast the spices except asafoetida in a pan. Cool and powder it in a coffee or spice grinder.
- Dissolve the tamrind paste in half cup of warm water. Keep it aside
- In a pot, add butter or olive oil. Heat it and add the chopped onions, sauté it well till it becomes brown and caramelised. Add the chicken breasts (or vegetables) and saute for another 2 mins. Add the lentil puree and chicken stock and bring it to boil for 30 minutes
- Add the tamarind water and simmer for another 10 minutes.
- Add 2 tablespoon full of the roasted spice powder and simmer it for another 10 minutes. Add Salt and pepper to taste
- Add the steamed rice to the broth and switch off the heat. Stir well.
- In a pan, add a tablespoon full of clarified butter. Heat it to smoking point and add a teaspoon of cumin seeds. Let them crackle. Add this to the broth
- Add coriander and basil leaves.
- Ladle hot soup into bowls. Serve hot
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