Ginger garlic rasam by Suvasini

Ingredients:

Toor Dal - 1 tsp
Ginger - few pieces chopped
Curry leaf - few
Pepper Corn/ Black Whole Pepper/Milagu - 4-5
Garlic - 4-5 chopped
Red Pepper/Red Chilli - 1

Soak the above ingredients for a while and grind it to a smooth paste with very lil water.

Meanwhile Soak some tamarind and extract the juice from it as we do it for regular rasam. Now in a Pot, add the tamarind water, Turmeric Powder, lil rasam powder, half tsp Sambhar Powder & Salt and bring it to boil. Once the smell of tamarind subsides down switch turn of the gas. For tempering, take 2tbsp of Ghee/Clarified Butter, Mustard seeds, Cumin/Jeera Seeds, Pinch of Asafoetida Powder. Once this splutters, add few curry leaves & just pour this in the rasam. Finally add some freshly chopped coriander leaves. You also may want to add some fried garlic to this rasam then you can add, I often do it...

Enjoy warm rasam in this cold weather...