Ingredients

• For frying:
• Toor dhal - 1 tbsp
• Black pepper - 1 tbsp
• Jeera (cumin) - 1 tsp
• Red chillies - 5
• Ghee - 2 tbsp
• Curry leaves - a few
• Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
• Salt to taste
• For rasam:
• Tamarind - 3/4 lemon sized.

How to Make Jeera -Pepper Rasam

• Heat the ghee and fry the tuvar daal, black pepper, jeera, red chillies (reserve 1 for later) in it.
• Dry grind in a mixer with curry leaves.
• Soak tamarind in 1 cup of water for 5 minutes.
• Remove the tamarind extract, add salt to it and boil for a few minutes.
• Now add the fried, ground mixture to it.
• Add some more water to it and boil for 2 -3 minutes.
• Splutter mustard seeds, 1 red chilli and some curry leaves in 1 tsp of ghee and pour over it.