Ingredients:
2 sp Tamarind paste
½ sp Mustard seeds
8 – 10 Red chilly
A pinch of Asafetida
Salt
2 Table sp. Fresh/dry Neem flower (Vepam poo)
1 Tea sp Ghee.
Method:
In a pan put 1/2 sp ghee, mustard seeds and red chilies.
Add 2 cups of water in that and add tamarind paste.
Mix well. Bring it to a boil.
Add salt and asafetida powder.
Let it boil for a while.
Add ½ cup water again and allow it to boil for 2 more min.
Remove from the fire.
In a pan, put 1/2 sp ghee and put Neem flower and fry well.
Add it in the Rasam.
And this is a best and quick rasam.
Important note: My grand mother used to say that we should not prepare this rasam on Tues days, Fridays and Sundays.