Chota halkkusha (thumbai) rasam

Name: Chota halkkusha (thumbai) rasam
Total time: 1200 s
Yield: 3-4 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 100 ml Tamarind juice; 1/2 spoon pepper; 1/2 spoon jeera; 1 small pcs of ginger; 5-7 cloves garlic; 2 tomatoes smashed; 50 gms I took thumbai flowers; 100 gms thumbai leaves; 1/2 tsp asafoetida; 1/2 mustard; as per taste Salt

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Ingredients

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3-4 servings

100 mlTamarind juice
1/2 spoonpepper
1/2 spoonjeera
1small pcs of ginger
5-7 clovesgarlic
2tomatoes smashed
50 gmsI took thumbai flowers
100 gmsthumbai leaves
1/2 tsp asafoetida
1/2 mustard
as per tasteSalt

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Steps

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1. In a mud pan oil, mustard, crushed pepper + ginger+ garlic +jeera fry well
2. Add thumbai leaves
3. Fry it well, add asafoetida
4. Add tomatoes
5. Sauté it until it gets thick paste
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6. Add salt and turmeric
7. In a bow tamarind juice+ coriander leaves + curry leaves smash by hand well
8. Add this water in the mud pan
9 mix well chk salt
10 once starts boil of the stove (serve it enjoy warmly)
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I didn’t use red chillies (if you like you can) sauté well thumbai leaves well with tomatoes, add the thumbai flowers after off the stove and mix it enjoy the aroma and awesome flavour of rasam
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