Mango rasam / spicy mango lentil soup

Mango lentil soup

Ingredients:

• Raw green mango                                                    - 1 
• Toor dal                                                                     - 1 cup
• Salt                                                                             - As per the taste
•  Rasam powder, red chili powder & turmeric      - 1 tsp each

For tempering:

• Oil, mustard seeds, urad dal, chana dal, 

         curry leaves, hing(asafoetida)                                  - 1tsp each

Procedure:

Step 1:

Brush the raw mango on all the sides and let it roast on all the sides evenly.

Step 2:
Roast the mango by turning it occasionally until it turns black and becomes soft.

Step 3:
Once the mango is roasted and cooled, remove the skin and extract the pulp from it.

Step 4:
Heat a tsp of oil and add all the tempering ingredients to it.

Step 5:
Add the boiled toor dal to it and stir well.

Step 6:
Add salt, rasam powder, red chili powder to it and bring it to boil.

Step 7:
Add the mango pulp to it and stir continuously until there are no lumps of mango pulp.

Serve the rasam with hot rice or have it as a soup.

Hope you all enjoyed this recipe of south indian soup / rasam which is slightly sour an spicy.

Thank you

Jyo