Pineapple Rasam | Spicy Indian style Pineapple Soup
Everything you look for in a good rasam comes together in this Pineapple Rasam recipe. It is sweet, sour and spicy and is perfect to drink as a soup or to eat with rice.
Servings: 6 people
Calories: 75kcal
Equipment
- Pressure Cooker
Ingredients
- 2 Small Tomato (Or 1 Large) Chopped
- ½ cup Pineapple Chopped fine with juice
- ½ cup Cooked toor dal/Thuvaram paruppu
- 1 Lime or lemon Juice of 1
- 4 Green chilies
- ¼ teaspoon Asafetida
- ½ teaspoon Turmeric powder
- To taste Salt
- Few Cilantro
- 1 teaspoon Ghee
- 1 teaspoon Mustard seeds
Instructions
- Boil the tomatoes and green chilies in about 2 cups of water. Also add the turmeric powder, asafetida, and salt to this water and let it boil well (about 12 mins).
- Pressure cook the toor dal until mushy and then dilute it with about 4 cups of water. Once the rasam reduces to about half its quantity, add the diluted paruppu (dal) water to it.
- Now add the chopped pineapple with its juice to the rasam and let it simmer.
- Once the rasam starts to froth up, add the juice of one lime or lemon and garnish with cilantro.
- Fry the mustard seeds in about a teaspoon of ghee and add it to the rasam.
- Serve hot with rice or slurp as soup!
Nutrition
Calories: 75kcal | Carbohydrates: 14g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 2mg | Sodium: 112mg | Potassium: 98mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 253IU | Vitamin C: 18mg | Calcium: 15mg | Iron: 1mg