SPINACH RASAM

SPINACH RASAM

Ingredients:
(A)
200 grms just spinach leaves chopped
50 grms moong dal soaked and boiled
1 medium tomato sliced
2 shallots
2 pips garlic
2 green chillies sliced

(B)
1 tsp cumin seeds coarsely powdered
1 tsp black pepper coarsely powdered
Salt to taste
Lime juice as needed
1 tsp oil
¼ tsp mustard seeds
Little asafetida powder

Method:
Boil everything in (A) just to cook a little.
When cool, coarsely grind in a mixie.

Add enough water to make it into a rasam.
Pour it into a pot and boil it once.
Add salt, the powered cumin and pepper.

In a pan add the oil, the mustard seeds and the asafetida powder.
When the seeds splutter, add the contents to the rasam.
Remove and let it cool.
Add enough lime juice to taste.
Can be eaten with rice, or taken as soup also.