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
- Simmer tomato and tamarind with rasam powder.
- Add crushed pepper-cumin. Temper mustard, curry leaf and hing.
Spices used
- Rasam Powder (रसम पाउडर)Shop →
- Tamarind (इमली)Shop →
- Black pepper (काली मिर्च)Shop →
- Cumin (जीरा)Shop →
- Dried curry leaf (कढ़ी पत्ता)Shop →
- Asafoetida (हींग)Shop →
