Ananya's Easy and Tasty Lemon Rasam

Health Benefits:

 Lemon contains Vitamin C

Vitamin C has many benefits to your health. It can fight against free radicals in your body that causes cancer. It can help you detoxify and loose weight. Vitamin C helps your body support a healthy metobolic function and it gives you energy. Vitamin C can also prevent illnesses by boosting your body's immune system. Protect our body from common cold

Toor Dhal:

Toor dhal contains folic acid an important vitamin for all women. Folic acid is essential for foetal development and can help to prevent neural tube birth defect.

Ingredients:

• Toor dal - 1/3 Cup
• Lemon - 1 to 2 no
• Tomato - 1 no
• Green Chilli - 2 nos
• Turmeric Powder - a pinch or 1/4 tspn
• Coriander leaf - few nos
• Pepper Powder - 1/4 tspn or a pinch ( optional )
• Salt  - to taste
• Water - 3 to 4 cups

For seasoning:

• Mustard - 1 tspn
• Asafoetida Powder - a pinch
• Oil - 3 to 4 tspn

Method 1:

• Cook the dal in pressure cooker until it becomes soft
• In a vessel add 1/2 cup of water , chopped tomato, green chillies and allow it to cook
• when tomato becomes soft switch off the stove and add turmeric powder, salt and coriander leaves
• To this add the cooked dal, lemon juice by squeezing the lemon and add water according to the taste
• If want add 1/4 tspn or a pinch of pepper powder to it. Pepper will enhance the taste
• Heat oil in kadai and add the seasonings, Pour this seasonings to the lemon rasam and serve

Method 2:

• In a vessel add toor dal, chopped tomato ( medium size ), green chillies along with turmeric powder and salt 
• cook this mixture in pressure cooker for 3 to 4 whistle or till dal becomes soft
• To this add lemon juice mix well and add require quantity of water
• Heat oil in a kadai add the seasonings and pour this to the rasam along with coriander and pepper powder 

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