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Tomato juice rasam recipe, a simple juice rasam recipe using tomatoes without tamarind.

tomato juice rasam recipe, easy juice rasam recipe

My MIL is a fabulous cook and she has what seems like an unlimited supply of rasam recipes that she can make on request or whim. What I particularly find fascinating with her cooking is, all her dishes are super quick and easy ones. They are simple, mostly with only 5-6 ingredients and get done in less than half an hour each, at the most. In fact, when I visit my in laws, most of MIL’s cooking is done by the time I wake up (which I should admit is not very early!) and usually there’s some type of rasam boiling in the eeya chombu, a unique tamil brahmin practice of making rasam in pots that are alloys of many metals including lead. Although there are many schools of thought regarding the harmful effects of lead in food, she continues to use it for rasam. The taste difference is said to be significant if you don’t use an eeya chombu for your rasam!

One of my favourites of all the rasam recipes she had shared with me over the years is this juice rasam or tomato juice rasam recipe. It uses no tamarind, and since my FIL’s mom doesn’t take onion or garlic, this version doesn’t contain garlic either. So that makes this a very tasty and easy recipe that can either be taken like soup, or poured on steaming white rice for a nice and hearty lunch.

tomato juice rasam recipe
Black granite kitchen top in my MIL’s kitchen works so well for food photos!
Tomato Juice Rasam Recipe
 
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Tomato juice rasam recipe or simply juice rasam is a flavourful tomato rasam recipe from Tamil Nadu that uses no tamarind. Perfect to serve as hot soup or poured over rice.
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Recipe type: Soup
Cuisine: South Indian
Serves: 4-6
Ingredients
  • 5-6 ripe tomatoes
  • ½ cup cooked, mashed toor dal (about ¼ cup uncooked)
  • 1 heaping teaspoon rasam powder
  • A generous pinch of hing / asafoetida / perungaayam
  • A pinch of turmeric
  • ½ tsp jeera / cumin seeds pounded in a pestle and mortar or coarsely ground in a spice grinder
  • ¼ tsp freshly cracked black pepper
  • Salt to taste
Instructions
  1. Pressure cook the toor dal with enough water until soft and mushy. Mash further with a potato masher to remove any lumps. Set aside.
  2. Chop the tomatoes in small pieces, place in the pan, and add enough water to cover it by an inch.
  3. Add turmeric, sambar powder, hing, and salt and boil for about 15-20 mins until the tomatoes turn soft.
  4. Then, take out the chunky pieces and blend to a smooth paste and return it to the rest of the cooked tomato mixture along with the dal.
  5. Add about 1 to 2 cups more water until rasam reaches the right consistency (not too watery but more soup-like).
  6. Add pepper and cumin powder, bring to boil, and remove from heat.
  7. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves (or you can add curry leaves when you add dal).
  8. Note that my MIL does not temper this rasam but if you'd like to, heat some ghee / oil in a small pan, add mustard seeds and they pop, dunk into the rasam at the final stage.
tomato juice rasam recipe, easy juice rasam recipe
I must add this memory I have associated with the pictures of the tomato juice rasam above. This was made by Amma when I was visiting them this June. I was complaining about the lack of a good spot to take the final pics (the light in the kitchen was bad by afternoon). The balconies had harsh direct sunlight and I explained to Appa (my father-in-law) that that was not ideal. He immediately went and got a sheer white cloth and held it up beside the small table in the bedroom balcony while I clicked a few pictures. Thanks for the support Appa, otherwise this juice rasam recipe would’ve never shown up here on Edible Garden 🙂
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  1. the rasam was really as gud as my mother wud make.. i prepare daily rasam for my one and half yr old son.. u know sometimes things we do daily will just fade away its true nature.. and my rasam wasnt tasting as gud as it wud actually be.. for a change i saw this recipe and prepared and it came out awesome and my son just drank as it is.. thanks and keep going..

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  3. My mom has a story of how she was careless when she was young and burnt down an eeya sombu with rasam! never mind the old story – this picture is just amazingly attractive – I can't take my eyes off the rasam cups. PrettYYY

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  4. HI Nags.

    been a long time since i hopped in…my mom makes the same rasam…only she lets it boil and reduce and there is no pureeing!!! I love cooking in the eeya chombu but I burnt it once over the stove top and TH has forbade it anymore!!! 🙁 Love the colours of the rasam!

    Shobha

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  6. You won't believe, I was talking to this very close friend of mine (in New York now & she is Telugu) and she was making Rasam. I asked her how she made it as I wanted to make it too. And that same day I saw your recipe!!!

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  11. Lovely!:-) We make it at home, but my mother adds the tomatoes to the dal and cooks it with the dal and mashes everything together and then adds the powders and coriander leaves. I sometimes make a puree of the tomatoes and mix to the mashed dal and boil together with the powders etc. We too avoid tempering, but sometimes add coriander leaves just before serving after tempering too! ~Shreya

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  12. Oh, it looks so tasty. The words "super quick", "5-6 ingredients" and "less than half an hour" jumped out to me. I'm so sad that I'm unable to read tamil. Is there no way I can decipher your MIL's recipes using some sort of software? If you have any suggestions, do tell!

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  16. That looks delicious! I love rasam but haven't made it in a while. Love the pictures and totally agree, that granite counter top is a gorgeous bg!

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  17. I certainly love the rasam made in 'eeya chombu' (we call it 'seesam chombu'). The rasam gets a unique taste but the disadvantage is it gets damaged if over heated.

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  23. Hi…I hv been following your blog and it is truly inspiring! BTW, jus fyi, abt the "eeya chombu". My MIL makes the rasam and then pours it into the eeya chombu …that way you don't end up boiling the rasam in that vessel. Sometimes, over boiling in the "eeya chombu" spoils the rasam/any food, and cld cause food poisoning!

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  27. Loved the click on the Granite Kitchen top Nags:-)
    Thatz a super simple Rasam recipe..Even my mom is a genius at cooking simple n fast yet yummy dishes..

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  32. Hi, Lovely post. Just one correction: Eeya Chombu does not contain ANY lead whatsoever. It is just a play on the name. It is mostly tin with other ordinary metals. I cheacked with the people who make eeya chombu and that is my source. 🙂

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  33. Rasam pic look so tempting and thats so sweet of ur FIL 🙂 I wish I have a cup from those now with hot rice now!!

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