Pineapple Rasam

Pineapple Rasam

Ingredients:

Ingredients for Grinding:

Ingredients for Seasoning:

Pineapple Rasam

Method:

1. Pressure cook the thurdal and smash it nicely and keep it aside
2. Take the pepper and cumin seeds in a mixer

3. Grind the pepper and cumin seeds to a coarse powder

4. Take 3 pine apple rings separately. If you have the whole pineapple, peel the skin and cut the pineapple into circles

5. Chop the pineapple to bigger pieces and add it to the mixer

6. Grind the pineapple pieces to a nice paste

7. Take 1 tomato and nicely smash it. Or you can even give a pulse in the mixer to make a puree

8. To the tomato puree, add 1 cup of water, turmeric and 1/2 quantity of ground coarse pepper-cumin powder, ground pineapple paste and rasam powder and allow the tomato puree to cook well

9. Meanwhile, finely chop the rest of pineapple pieces and tomatoes and keep it ready

10. In a separate pan, add ghee and add mustard seeds when the ghee is hot, when the mustard seeds starts to sputter, add broken red chilli, hing, rest of the ground pepper-cumin powder and curry leaves and saute it for 20 seconds

11. Add the chopped pineapple and tomato pieces and saute it for 2 minutes in a medium flame

12. Add the seasoned ingredients along with sauted pineapple and tomato pieces to the boiling tomato puree

13. Add the smashed dal and mix well.

14. Add 2 cups of water and keep the flame in medium till we get a froth. Finally garnish with coriander leaves and remove from flame

15. The delicious and spicy pineapple rasam is ready to serve.

Pineapple Rasam