Thursday, July 10, 2014

Mysore Rasam | How to Make Mysore Rasam

For this week theme on BM I'm presenting " South Indian Meal Dishes-Karnataka Cuisine". Enjoy the dishes & don't miss the update. Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM# 42.

Mysore Rasam is a appetizing Karnataka dish. There are many recipes to make a rasam, but this version of it is flavorful & has a kick to it. Rasam powder or paste is very much different from the usual one we make. Coconut flakes in rasam powder will add a delicious flavor to rasam. I got this recipe from mom & she was praising how good this rasam has tasted. So it tempted me to give it a try & at the end we {me & hubby} loved it.

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Prep Time-5mins | Cook Time-30mins | Serves-5people
Ingredients 
1/4Cup toor dal
1/2Cup water
2Small tomatoes chopped 
3&1/2Cups water
1Tbs tamarind pulp / 1Tbs size tamarind ball{Adjust as needed}
1/4Tsp turmeric
2Tsp jaggery {Adjust as needed}
Few curry leaves 
Salt to taste 
To Grind
1Tbs coriander seeds {Dhaniya}
1Tsp jeera {cumin}
4Red chili's 
1Tbs + 1Tsp channa dal
1/4Tsp methi seeds 
1/2Tsp black pepper
2Tbs grated coconut
1Tsp ghee
Few curry leaves 
Seasoning 
1tbs ghee/oil
1/2Tsp jeera {cumin}
1/2Tsp mustard
2Red chili's equally cut
1/4Tsp hing {Asafetida}
Directions 
- Pressure cook toordal with 1/2cup water for 2 whistles. Switch off heat & allow the cooker to cool. 
- Mean while in a large vessel mix tamarind pulp along with 3&1/2 cups of water. {If using a tamarind then clean it with lots of water first & then soak tamarind in 1Cup of water. Squeeze some the tamarind juice as needed.}
- Add chopped tomatoes, curry leaves, turmeric & enough salt to water. 
- Bring it to boil & cook it till the tomatoes are cooked soft.
Grind 
- Take ghee in a pan & to that add all the grind ingredients other then coconut.
- Fry them till channa dal changes it color to a darker yellow. Switch off heat & add coconut to pan.
- Grind them along with little water to a smooth paste. 
Making Rasam
- Add cooked dal, spice paste & jaggery to cooked tomatoes.
- Bring it to boil & adjust salt, tamarind if needed. Cook for 5mins on medium heat & switch off heat.
- Heat a pan with ghee, to that add red chili's, jeera & mustard. Once the mustard starts jumping add hing to pan & switch off heat. 
- Mix the seasoning with rasam.
***Serve it along with rice & dollop of ghee. Also serve some papadam's as a side.
Note 
- If you feel the rasam paste is too much,adjust it as needed for you. I added the whole paste to rasam & it was awesome.
- You can add garlic in the seasoning, instead of hing. 
- You can replace replace ghee with oil, but ghee add's lots of flavor to rasam.
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10 comments:

  1. Very flavourful and delicious comforting food, can have it happily anytime.

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  2. This is such a comforting soup on a rainy day...love it

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  3. Such an inviting bowl of rasam...I am yet to try Mysore Rasam..been on my list for so long!

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  4. Looks delicious. Bookmarked to try this soon.

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  5. We loved it when I made it , yours looks delicious!

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  6. This is my absolute favorite rasam and I can have this any day....So tempting :)

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  7. Lovely presentation for such a comforting rasam.

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