Description
This is one dish not to be missed out on. Super easy to remember and you need not go hunting for the recipe each time you make it.
Ingredients
- Oil – 2 tsp
- Mustard seeds – ½ tsp
- Cumin seeds – ½ tsp
- Hing (asafoetida) – ¼ tsp
- Ginger – 1 inch piece, fine chopped
- Green chillies – 1, slit (optional)
- Tomato – 1 medium
- Apples, slightly tart, cooking variety – 3 to 4
- Jaggery (gur) – 2 tsp or to taste
- Salt – to taste
- Rasam powder – 2 tsp or to taste
- Red chilli powder – ½ tsp (optional)
- Garnish – coriander leaves
Instructions
- Wash and chop tomatoes. Wash and peel apples. Dice them.
- Heat oil, add mustard, cumin, hing, let splutter. Add ginger, green chillies, sauté few seconds.
- Add tomatoes and let soften a bit. Add apples, mix and let start to soften.
- Add salt, jaggery, rasam powder, chilli powder. Cook till done.
- Garnish and serve hot!
Notes
Skip rasam powder if not available but increase chilli powder in that case. This dish needs to be bit spicy, sweet and have a slight tang.
If you want it more tart, you may sprinkle some lime juice in the end.
Asafoetida is optional if not available but zing from ginger is a must!
Use either homemade or store bought rasam powder. It is easily available in Indian stores. It is a blend of spices commonly used to make a South Indian traditional dish called ‘rasam’. Rasam is a spicy lentil based soup.
Quantity of rasam powder to be added depends on how strong is the one you are using.
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 20 mins