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Healthy Food Recipes - Lemon Rasam

Updated: 20/Jan/2015 4:09:14 PM

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Healthy Food Recipes - Lemon Rasam

Ingredients:

Toor Dal � � cup
Tomato � 2 nos (small)
Lemon � 1 or 2 spoon of juice
Red Chilli- 2 nos
Mustard Seeds � � 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 � � 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