After all these festivities and indulgence, our digestive system surely needs some soothing, healing and a simple lunch. This lemon Rasam surely fits the bill and we can enjoy this Rasam with some hot rice, vegetable Subzi and little pickle. This time I had some huge lemons from my native. which we call as Dudle huli /Citrus medica. This Rasam is very good for treating sour throat as well. You can enjoy this as a soup and heal the throat pain.
Ingredients-
Toor dal – 1 cup (cooked)
Green chillies – 4
Ginger – ½ inch
Hing – Toor dal size
Salt
Jaggery – 1 table spoon
Curry leaves – 1 spring
Lemon juice – ½ of big lemon or 1 small lemon
Seasoning:
Coconut oil – 1 tsp
Mustard – 1 tea spoon
Cumin – ½ tea spoon
Red chilli – 1
Curry leaves – 1 spring
Method:
-Chop green chillies, cut ginger julienne and keep.
-Take Four to five cups of water in a pot, put ginger, green chillies, curry leaves, salt, jaggery, hing and cook for a while.
-When ginger and green chillies are cooked, add cooked dal and adjust the consistency, check for salt and jaggery.
– Boil for 3 to 5 minutes and switch off. Now add lemon juice by removing the seeds if any.
-Do the seasoning by heating oil, add mustard and splutter. Next add cumin, broken red chilli and curry leaves and mix all these and add this over ready boiled Rasam.
Close the lid and rest this for 10 minutes to absorb all the flavours and then serve.