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Today we are going to make south Indian style Pepper rasam
This is a simple home style recipe
Take a small , lemon sized ball of tamarind and pour some water to it .
Keep it aside to soak well
The next step is to prepare the pepper rasam powder
Add raw pepper,
a bit more than other rasam powders as this is pepper rasam
Add in raw cumin seeds
and grind it.
Always ,a freshly ground rasam powder gives a special taste to the rasam.
Grind the pepper and cumin seeds,
The mixture doesn't need to be super fine, it can be a coarse powder.
Transfer the powder to another bowl
Add a few cloves of smashed Garlic and keep it along with the ground mixture.
the rasam powder is ready
Next step is to mash the ripe juicy tomatoes
the riper the tomatoes, better the taste of rasam.
Nicely mash the ripe tomatoes
Add the soaked tamarind water , to the mashed tomato juice
Add turmeric and some rock salt.
For tempering ,pour some sesame oil , to a heated pan
when the oil is hot , add Mustard seeds.
Once the musturd seeds splutters , add in dried chillies
Add in asafoetida , fresh curry leaves
add in the mixture of tomato juice and tamarind water
add some water to the mixture and bring it to boil till the raw flavor of tamarind goes off.
pepper is called millagu in tamil and rasam means soup
pepper rasam is also called as millagu thanni soup
Once the raw flavour of tamarind goes off
Add in the freshly ground rasam powder,
fresh curry leaves and coriander leaves
note , once you add in rasam powder DO NOT boil the rasam
as the flavour of rasam will change if it gets boiled
When you see the bubbles on the side,take off from the flame
Enjoy the yummy pepper rasam , with hot rice
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