KEERAI RASAM OR SOUP

Ingredients:

(A)
½ cup too dal soaked
250 grms seeru keerai or molai keerai cut into pieces.
4 garlic pips
6 shallots
2 tomatoes chopped
½ tsp turmeric powder
Little salt to taste


2 green chillies slit into 4
½ tsp cumin seeds }
½ tsp black pepper } both ground into coarse powder
1 tbs coriander leaves chopped
1 sprig curry leaves
Lime juice to taste

1 tsp oil
½ tsp cumin seeds
2 pinches of asafoetida powder

Method:
You can either put all the ingredients of (A) and pressure cook for
2 whistles, or boil the toor dall in a pot, add all the other ingredient
and cook the vegetables till done.
When cool, use a mathu and mash it up. Or use the whipper blade
And grind it to a coarse paste. NOT FINE.

Now add the ground ingredients into a pot.
Add enough water to make rasam. Add in the green chillies
salt, the coarsely ground pepper and cumin seeds.
Coriander leaves, and curry leaves. Let it come to a nice boil.
Taste for salt, off the stove and add in lime juice to taste.

Lastly add the oil in a pan, add in the asafoetida powder
and the cumin seeds, let it splutter and pour it on the keerai rasam.
You can drink it as a soup or add to rice as rasam.
A very nutritious rasam