Recipe of Super Quick Homemade Rasam

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, rasam. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Rasam is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Rasam is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook rasam using 19 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Rasam:

1. Make ready 1 cup Split Pigeon pea/Toor dal/Arahar dal
2. Get 1 liter Chicken stock or vegetable stock
3. Take 2 tbsp Tamarind paste or a lemon size ball of tamarind
4. Make ready 3 Ripe Tomatoes
5. Prepare 2 Green Chillies
6. Make ready 5 Whole Shallots
7. Prepare 1 piece of ginger
8. Get 5 clove Garlic
9. Make ready 1 cup Boiled and Shredded Chicken Breast (Vegetarians substitute vegetables of your choice)
10. Make ready 1 Spanish red Onion Diced
11. Take 1 tbsp Coriander seeds
12. Get 1 tsp Fenugreek seeds
13. Prepare 1 tbsp Cumin seeds
14. Take 1/2 tsp Asafoetida
15. Prepare 1 tsp Turmeric Powder
16. Get 2 tbsp Butter or Olive Oil
17. Take 2 cup Steamed Rice
18. Prepare 1/2 cup basil and coriander leaves combined
19. Prepare 1 Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions to make Rasam:

1. Wash the lentils well and soak it in water for 2-3 hrs.
2. 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.
3. Dry roast the spices except asafoetida in a pan. Cool and powder it in a coffee or spice grinder.
4. Dissolve the tamrind paste in half cup of warm water. Keep it aside
5. 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
6. Add the tamarind water and simmer for another 10 minutes.
7. Add 2 tablespoon full of the roasted spice powder and simmer it for another 10 minutes. Add Salt and pepper to taste
8. Add the steamed rice to the broth and switch off the heat. Stir well.
9. 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
10. Add coriander and basil leaves.
11. Ladle hot soup into bowls. Serve hot

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