Tomato rasam

A simple, quick, easy and healthy recipe is here. In south India people make it everyday at home.
It helps in digestion. It's eaten with rice at the end of the meal. You can drink it too like soup.
It tastes good when you eat it as soon as you make it.

Ingredients :
( serving for 4)
Tamarind - small ball ( size of 2 blue berry)
Tomato - 1 medium size
Garlic - 3 pods
Curry leaves - few
Coriander leaves - 4 strands
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Mustard seed - 1/4 tsp
Red chilli - 1
Hing - a pinch
Rasam powder - 1 tsp

Method :
 1. Soak tamarind in water with salt. You can also microwave it for 30 secs. Mix it well with hand.
2. Add whole tomatoes and crush it in hand in the tamarind water. If the tomato is too hard, crush it slightly with hand and microwave it for 30 secs.
3. Mix everything nicely with hand.
4. Crush garlic and red chilli in mortar.
5. Add oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, hing, curry leaves and crushed garlic and red chilli and sauté well.
6. Add tamarind tomato water in it. Add turmeric powder and let it boil.
7. Once it starts boiling, add rasam powder and switch of the flame.
8. Crush coriander strings with the stem in mortar and add it at the end in the rasam.

Tasty rasam is ready.
Enjoy cooking and your tasting.