Recipes / South Indian

Tomato rasam

Pepper-cumin rasam — thin, sour, and meant to be sipped with rice.

Household recipes vary; this is a culinary overview for UK home cooks, not a certified restaurant method and not diet advice.

4 servings · Prep 10 min · Cook 20 min · Tamil Nadu

Ingredients

  • 2 tomatoes
  • Tamarind water
  • 1 tsp rasam powder
  • 1/2 tsp crushed pepper and cumin
  • Curry leaves, hing, mustard, ghee

Method

  1. Simmer tomato and tamarind with rasam powder.
  2. Add crushed pepper-cumin. Temper mustard, curry leaf and hing.

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