Orange & Lemon Rasam

Ingredients:

Toor dal – ¼ cup

Tomato - 1

Green chili - 2

Ginger – a small piece

Orange juice (fresh) – ½ cup

Lemon juice – 1tbs

Rasam powder – 1 ½ tsp

Cilantro - handful

Asafetida – 1pinch or 2

Mustard seeds – ¼ tsp

Cumin – ¼ tsp

Salt to taste

Ghee – 1 ½ tbs

Preparation:

Pressure cook toor dal until soft and mash it well. Take a cooking bowl add 1 tbs ghee, followed by asafetida, chopped tomatoes, green chilli & ginger and saute for a minute, then add turmeric powder, rasam powder & pour some water and boil it . Simmer and boil for 15 to 20 minutes. Add the pressure cooked water from toor dal to it. Do not boil rasam too much as it will loose its taste, when froth starts forming at the top add  orange & lemon juice to the rasam and switch it off. Heat ½ tbs  of ghee and season the rasam with mustard & cumin seeds. Garnish with cilantro.

Serve with steamed rice. Enjoy the sweet & sour rasam