Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Super Quick Homemade Rasam

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, rasam. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Rasam is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Rasam is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook rasam using 19 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Rasam:

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