Pineapple Rasam

Pineapple is the only fruit everybody likes at my home, some cut pieces was lying idle in the fridge thought of making rasam with left over pineapple slices, my son is very pedantic or finicky  with dishes, he needs it the way he likes it, so decided on rasam, and it was a HIT !!!  Horray!!!.
                                 

                                 

Ingredients:

 1 cup of  pineapple juice
 10 small chunks of pineapple
 3 tomatoes
 2 green chilli
 1/2 inch cut ginger
 1/4 cup toor dhal
 2 tsp of rasam powder
 1/4 tsp of turmeric powder
 water as required
 salt to taste
 1 sprig of curry leaves, coriander leaves

 Grinding:
 1 tsp of cumin
 1/4 tsp of pepper
 1/2 tsp of coriander seeds

 Tempering
 2 tsp of ghee
 1/4 tsp of mustard
 1/4 tsp of cumin
 pinch of hing



Method:

• Pressure cook toor dhal and mash it. 
• Get 1 cup of pinapple juice by grinding it and straining the juice .
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• Chop 3 tomatoes and boil it with 1 cup of water with turmeric, ginger,slit green chilli and salt.
• Meanwhile grind  cumin,pepper, coriander seeds to coarse powder.
• Once the tomatoes becomes mushy add chopped  Pineapple and the juice.
• Add rasam powder, grinded cumin powder and cook for 2 -3minutes, if needed add 1/2 cup of water.
• Add the mashed dhal , and 1 cup of water, cook  in low flame , switch it off when its starts boiling.
• Heat ghee in a kadai , add mustard once it splutters add cumin, hing.
• Add the tempering to the rasam.
• Garnish it with chopped coriander leaves, curry leaves.
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