Goddu Rasam

Rasam - the South Indian soup often made with tamarind water is one of the comfort food which can be eaten along with plain rice or enjoyed as soup.You will find many varieties of Rasam. Goddu Rasam is one of the easiest recipes to make. This also does not require dal water. For this you need

Ingredients

1/2 tsp Mustard seeds

Small Lemon Size Tamarind

Hing/ asafoetida

Salt to taste

3 green chillies cut lengthwise

2 red chillies broken

1 tbsp oil for frying

6-8 Curry leaves

Chopped coriander leaves

Method

1) Soak tamarind it hot water. Let it cool a bit. Squeeze the pulp and drain all the juice in a container. Add some more water to the pulp and extract some more tamarind juice. Keep it aside.

2) Take a frying pan with 1 tbsp oil.

3) Add mustard seeds and let it crackle. Then add green chillies sliced lengthwise, red chillies broken into halves, curry leaves and hing.

4) Add the tamarind juice to it. Add some salt.

5) Keep it for boil. Let it boil for 5 minutes. Once it is boiling, add 1/3 cup water and simmer it. Heat it up well.

6) Once it heats up but not boiling, remove from the stove and season it with chopped coriander leaves.