Lemon Rasam

Properties

• Increases the appetite
  
• Balances all the three doshas
  
• It does not increase pitta like other varieties of rasam
  
• It is tasty
  
• Relieves nausea
  
• Improves appetite and taste
  
• Light to digest
  

Ingredients

Tomato – 1 fruit
Rock salt – to taste
Thoor dal – ¼ cup
Pepper – 1 spoon
Cumin seeds – 1 spoon
Turmeric – 1 pinch
Ghee –1 spoon
Mustard – ½ spoon
Asafoetida – 2 pinch
Curry leaves – 1 sprig
Coriander leaves – few
Lemon – 1 or two according to taste
Water – sufficient quantity

Preparation

1. Boil 3 cups of water
   
2. Add chopped tomatoes, a pinch of turmeric and rock salt to it
   
3. Let it boil in low flame till the tomatoes becomes soft
   
4. Boil and smash the thoor dal separately
   
5. Fry pepper, cumin in little ghee
   
6. Coarsely powder it
   
7. Add this powder to the boiling soup
   
8. Add the smashed thoor dal also to it
   
9. Let it boil for few minutes
   
10. Take it away from fire.
    
11. Add chopped curry leaves and coriander leaves.
    
12. Season it with ghee, mustard seeds and asafoetida
    
13. Squeeze the juice of a lemon in it and mix well
    
14. This can be served with rice and suitable side dish