Healthy Food Recipes - Lemon Rasam
Posted on: 20/Jan/2015 4:09:14 PM
Ingredients:
- Toor Dal – ¼ cup
- Tomato – 2 nos (small)
- Lemon – 1 or 2 spoon of juice
- Red Chilli- 2 nos
- Mustard Seeds – ¼ spoon
- Asafoetida – a pinch
- Curry leaves – a few
- Cooking oil – 1 spoon
- Salt – as required
To Grind:
- Pepper Balls – 1 spoon
- Cumin Seeds – 1 spoon
- Ginger – ½ inch long
- Garlic – 4 cloves
Method:
- Pressure cook Toor dal with a pinch of turmeric powder until soft. Mash it well and keep it aside.
- Or just the boiled Toor dal water is sufficiently more than enough.
- Mix the tomato juice extract with the Toor dal boiled water.
- Grind pepper, cumin seeds, skin removed ginger, garlic in a mixer to a coarse powder without the addition of water.
- Heat the pan with a spoon of oil and add the mustard seeds and curry leaves. Don’t allow it to roast well.
- Add splinted red chilli and add the grinded Rasam paste into it.
- Now add the boiled Toor dal and tomato juice extract mixture to it.
- Then add the required salt and a pinch of Asafoetida and allow it to boil for some time.
- Then switch off the flame and add the lemon juice.
- Sprinkle the chopped coriander leaves for garnishing.
- Hot Lemon Rasam is ready to serve!
Note:
- Keep in mind that Rasam should be boiled only on low flame for it to taste delicious.
- So as to avoid the floating of oil on top layer of the dish, temper cumin and mustard seeds initially and add the tomato extract on top of it.
- It is advisable to add the lemon juice, once you switch off the flame.
Lemon Benefits:
- Lemon is well known as the ‘Vitamin C rich Citrus Fruit’.
- You can intake lemon in our daily routine in the form of lemon juice, lemon rice, lemon tea and so on.
- You can sprinkle the lemon juice on top of all of kind of salads and sprouts.
- Lemon has both anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties and boosts the body immune system.
- It aids preventing the formation of kidney stones.
- Lemons helps in controlling high blood pressure.
- Lemon aids in curing respiratory problems.
- Lemon is an apt drink for stimulating digestion.
- Consuming warm lemon water during morning in the empty stomach helps to flush out the body toxins.
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
