Tomato Charu
Easy Tomato Charu Recipe | Andhra Style Tomato Rasam
Ingredients
Main
- Turmeric Powder — 1 piece (ground)
- salt — 1 tsp (whole)
- Ginger — 1 inch (chopped)
- mustard — 1 tsp (ground)
- cumin — 1 tsp (ground)
- Tomato — 3 piece (chopped)
- coriander — 2 tsp (whole)
- Water — 3 cup (whole)
- black pepper — 5.5 g (ground)
- Chana Dal — 2 tbsp (whole)
- Garlic — 5 piece (chopped)
- oil — 2 tsp (whole)
- red chilli — 10 piece (ground)
Tempering
- Curry Leaves — 1 piece (ground)
Method
- Firstly, to prepare the rasam powder, in a pan take 2 tbsp chana dal, 2 tsp pepper, 2 tsp coriander seeds, ½ tsp cumin, ¼ tsp methi and 10 dried red chilli.
- Dry roast till the spices turn aromatic.
- Cool completely, and grind to a fine powder. Keep asdie.
- In a mortar pestle, take 5 cloves garlic, 1 inch ginger, ½ tsp pepper, 1 tsp cumin, few curry leaves, and 2 chilli.
- Pound and crush til the spices are into well combined. Keep aside.
- In a saucepan, take 3 tomato and boil in 3 cup water.
- Boil for 5 minutes til the tomato is blanched well.
- Cool completely, and peel the skin off. Also mash the tomato well.
- Add in ½ cup tamarind extract, few curry leaves, ½ tsp turmeric, and 1 tsp salt.
- Boil for 5 minutes or until the tamarind is well cooked.
- Add crushed garlic masala, 1 tbsp rasam powder and mix well.
- Pour in required water, adjusting the consistency.
- Boil for 5 minutes, or until the flavours are well absorbed.
- To prepare the tempering, heat 2 tsp oil. Splutter 1 tsp mustard, ½ tsp cumin, pinch hing and 1 dried red chilli.
- Splutter the tempering and pour it over rasam.
- Also add 2 tbsp coriander and mix well.
- Finally, enjoy Tomato Charu Recipe with hot steamed rice.
Common questions
- How many calories in one plate of Tomato Charu?
- 69 kcal per plate.
- How much cooking time?
- 25 min — 10 min prep, 15 min cooking.
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