Udupi Saaru || Udupi style tomato rasam || How to prepare udupi style tomato charu

Udupi Sarru || Udupi tomato saaru || Udupi style tomato saaru with step by step pics and tips. It is tasty and aromatic saaru recipe from udupi Brahmin cuisines. My father is from Udupi, he loves this saaru/ rasam / charu a lot, we use fresh scrapped coconut a lot in our daily recipes. Are you thinking what special in udupi saaru? the answer is its aromatic flavors from rasam powder, curry & coriander leaves added while boiling rasam, taste of jaggery and coconut oil and scrapped / grated coconut added at last. If you want to skip adding coconut and jaggery in this rasam then surely you miss that udupi saaru taste. In temple rasam, they do not add tomatoes, our saaru taste same as served in temples. For South Indian people rasam is one recipe we never say no to it. If Homemade rasam powder is ready, you can prepare drumstick rasam, tomato rasam easily. Pepper rasam is very tasty and healthy recipe which heals cold and gives good relief too. Lemon rasam is very easy to prepare rasam that can be prepared easily without any rasam powder too, check out lemon rasam in youtube.

Taking this aromatic and tasty udupi saaru to Shhhhh Secretly Cooking Challenge fb group started by Priya of Priyas Versatile Recipes and taken further till date by Mayuri di who blogs at Mayuris jikoni. We completed recipes from all states from A to Z, so now admin team and members decided a new interesting way for monthly theme that is - one group member in alphabetical order will suggest theme. Later admin team will pair interested members, then we share 2 secret ingredients among us and prepare recipe using it and all other members will guess it. This week theme suggested by Jayashree Trao, she is very talented chef and also author of cookery e-books found on Amazon.  I bookmarked her watermelon rind salad recipe to try in this summer. This week i am paired with Anu kollon, she gave me fenugreek and coconut as two ingredients, with that i prepared this udupi saaru. In return i gave her coconut and green chillies. I bookmarked her little hearts cookies, kulkuls to try soon. Do check out her space for wonderful recipes.

Let's start recipe..


  

                                                                Udupi saaru 

Preparation time : 15 min
Cook Time : 30 minutes
Serves : 1 bowl
Category : Rasam / Regional
Recipe Cuisine: Udupi
Main ingredient: udupi Rasam powder
Author : Aruna SarasChandra


   


Ingredients

To prepare saarina podi / for rasam powder

coriander seeds - 2 tsp

cumin seeds - 1 tsp

fenugreek seeds/ menthulu - 1/4 tsp

red chillies - 5

curry leaves - 1 sprig

coconut oil - 1 tsp

To prepare udupi rasam

cooked toor dal - 1 cup

Tomato - 2

green chillies - 3

turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

curry leaves - 1 sprigs

coriander leaves - 3 tsp(chopped)

scrapped/grated fresh coconut - 1/4 cup

tamarind - small lemon size

salt a per taste

jaggery - 1/2 tsp

For tempering

coconut oil / ghee - 1 tsp

mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

cumin seeds - 1 tsp

curry leaves - 1 sprig

red chili - 1

hing - 1 pinch

Instructions

1) Soak toor dal for 30 minutes and cook it for 5 to 6 whistle and mash it well. Also soak tamarind in water, chop tomatoes and green chillies keep it aside.

2) Heat a pat, add 1 tsp coconut oil add coriander seeds fry it on low to medium flames. When it starts changing color add fenugreek, cumin seeds fry for a second, now add red chili and curry leaves. Fry everything well and take it into plate. let it cool for room temperature.

3) Take the above in mixer jar and grind it to fine powder.

4) let's start rasam now , add 1/2 tsp of coconut oil in a pan, then add tomatoes, green chili, curry leaves, coriander leaves fry it on low to medium flames till tomatoes becomes bit smooth, now add 1 glass water boil water till tomatoes float up.

5) Now add boiled and mashed toor dal boil for some time then add tamarind pulp to boil it for 3 minutes on medium flames. 

6)  add 11.2 glass water(adjust accordingly), above prepared 3 tsp of saaru podi / rasam powder , 1/2 tsp jaggery boil rasam till you get nice foam on it. 

                                                  

7) At last add chopped coriander leaves and scrapped fresh coconut boil for a minute and switch off the flames.

8) Heat a tempering bowl with 1 tsp of coconut oil / ghee, add all ingredients mentioned in tempering one after other fry it on low flames.

9) Add above tempering  in rasam.

  That's it our Udupi special rasam/ saaru is ready to serve. Serve hot with hot steamed rice. We had this saaru with rice and potato curry, it tasted very yummy.

                  

Tips

** Adding coconut and jaggery is optional but i prefer to add it, to get exact rasam recipe.

** You can store saaru podi / rasam powder in air tight container, we can use to in joggu avalaki and in other curry recipes too.

** Do not boil rasam for long time.

** Add correct amount of tamarind juice, to get good rasam taste.

** Add saaru podi according to your taste.

Hope this tips are helpful to you and you liked my lemon rasam recipe. Also check other related recipes just by clicking the link below pic..

rasam powder

lemon rasam

  Miriyala Charu / pepper rasam

                                                        Drumstick Rasam

                                      

Sundakkai Vatha Kuzhambu || Usthikaya pulusu

                                 
                             Mamidikaya pappu

Menthi akku pappu  

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