Poondu/Garlic Rasam

Ingredients

• Tomato - 1 medium size(cut into four pieces)
• Tamarind -lemon size(cook the tamarind in a cup of boiling water for a minute and extract the pulp)
• Garlic-2 pods(mashed)
• one cup Daal water(The water that settles on top of daal after pressure cooking) Or mash 1/4 Th cup of daal and dilute it with a cup of water.
• Rasam Powder-1 1/2 tsp
• turmeric powder
• Green chili-1 small
• salt -to taste

Procedure

1. Add tomato,tamarind water, daal water,garlic,Green chili and cook them on a low flame
2. Wait until the tomato cooks well
3. Add the rasam, turmeric powder and salt
4. When the rasam comes to a boil and bubble start to appear and start to raise up
5. Take off from heat Keep aside
6. In a pan add one tsp of oil and heat
7. Add the mustard seed and wait till it splatters
8. Add jeera and stir
9. Add the garlic (1 pod mashed)
10. Let it turn light brown
11. Pore this into the rasam.

Serve it hot with lots chopped coriander leaves. Can be had like a soup or with hot rice.