Healthy & Tasty Kanthari Rasam

Ingredients

• Birds eye chilli – 18 to 19 nos
• Shallots – 9 to 10 nos
• Garlic – 7to 8 nos
• Tomato – 1 nos
• Tamarind – small ball
• Fenugreek powder – 1 tsp
• Asafoetida powder – 1 tsp
• Dry red chilli – 2 to 3 nos
• Coriander seed – 1 tbsp
• Pepper seed – 1 tbsp
• Cumin seed – 1 tsp
• Salt – 1 or 2 tsp
• Oil – 3 to 4 tbsp

Method

• Crush the dry red chilli again and add coriander seed, pepper seed and cumin seed.
• crush them well and set them aside.
• Then crush garlic, bird’s eye chilli ,ginger and shallots into a fine paste and set aside.
• Take a bowl, add tamarind and water and soak for 10 to 15 minutes.
• Heat oil in a pan,add mustard seed and let them splutter.
• Then add crushed garlic, ginger and bird’s eye chilli mix
• Saute them well for a few minutes.
• Again, add crushed powders like dry red chilli,coriander seed and cumin seed mix.
• Saute them well for a few minutes.
• Add chopped tomatoes and saute them well.
• Add asafoetida powder and fenugreek seed.
• Saute them well for a few minutes.
• Add squeezed tamarind water and salt.
• Stir them well for a few minutes.
• Add a sufficient amount of water and stir them well.
• Add coriander leaves, stir, and boil them well.
• Remove from the fire and set aside.
• Heat oil in a pan and add dry red chilli and shallots.
• Saute them well for a few minutes.
• Add some curry leaves, saute them and fry them well.
• Remove the pan from the fire and pour the mixture into the rasam curry pan
• . Stir them well for a few minutes.
• Serve the tasty bird’s eye chilli rasam with meals.