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Paruppu Rasam

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Dal Rasam Recipe | Paruppu Rasam| with step by step photos and video. A spicy, hot rasam recipe made with dal and flavored with tomato, tamarind, rasam powder, and few other spices.

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Paruppu Rasam

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Dal Rasam Recipe | Paruppu Rasam| with step by step photos and video. A spicy, hot rasam recipe made with dal and flavored with tomato, tamarind, rasam powder, and few other spices. It is also known as paruppu rasam since paruppu means dal in Tamil.

A very comforting dish from the region of South India. It has a thin consistency compared to other dal dishes. A staple side dish for rice from the tamil cuisine and perhaps adopted by all south Indian states. The recipe is not only served as a side dish to rice but can also be served as a soup to cure a common cold and flu.

How to make dal rasam?

Dal Rasam Recipe | Paruppu Rasam| with step by step photos and video. Each state, region, and also perhaps individual districts has its own traditional way of making these spicy soups. one such spicy lentil-based variation is the popular paruppu rasam recipe from the Tamil cuisine made with spices.

This recipe I am planning to do in a pressure cooker. I am cooking dal along with the spices here. For making this paruppu rasam, I have used store-bought rasam powder. There are a variety of rasams. Recently I had shared with you a simple pepper garlic rasam recipe. Hope you would like it.

Paruppu Rasam

Prep 10 minutes
Cook 15 minutes
Total 25 minutes
Servings 6 servings

Instructions

  1. 1

    Firstly, let us soak a lemon sized tamarind in 1 cup of hot water. Squeeze out the juice using our hands & keep it aside.

  2. 2

    For preparing dal rasam, add 1 tbsp washed & cleaned toor dal to a pressure cooker.

  3. 3

    Followed by two tomatoes finely chopped, 2 big sized garlic crushed with skin, 1 ½ tbsp rasam powder, ¼ tsp pepper powder, ¼ tsp cumin powder, ¼ tsp kayam/hing powder, ¼ tsp turmeric powder, salt as required, 1 tbsp finely chopped coriander leaves & some curry leaves.

  4. 4

    Now strain & add the squeezed out juice from the tamarind.

  5. 5

    Then add 1 ½ cups of water & mix well.

  6. 6

    Now pressure cook over high to medium flame for 2 whistles. Once done, keep it aside to release pressure.

  7. 7

    Tempering

  8. 8

    Meanwhile, let us prepare a temper for this rasam.

  9. 9

    For that heat 1 tbsp coconut oil. Crackle ½ tsp mustard seeds. (Instead of oil using ghee makes it tastier)

  10. 10

    Then add 2 dried red chilies & some curry leaves. Mix well & roast them.

  11. 11

    Switch off the flame & pour this hot temper into the rasam mix.

  12. 12

    To make the rasam more flavorable & tastier add 2 pinches of (1/8th tsp) fenugreek powder & 1 pinch of kaayam powder. Mix & combine everything well.

  13. 13

    Our special paruppu rasam is ready to be served now.

Notes

If you do not have rasam powder handy, then instead of rasam powder, you can use 1 tsp Kashmiri chili powder, 2tsp coriander powder & ¼ tsp pepper powder.

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