Properties
- It is hot in potency
- Helps to eliminate the flatus and feces
- Relieves abdominal distension
- Improves the appetite and digestion
- Balances vata and kapha
- Increases pitta
- Detoxifies the system
- Reduces cholesterol and prevents heart disease
- Good for common cold and flu
Ingredients
- Garlic – 30 cloves
- Tomato – 2
- Rock salt - to taste
- Turmeric powder – 1 pinch
- Rasam powder – 2 spoons
- Thur dal – ½ cup
- Ghee – 1 spoon
- Mustard – 1 spoon
- Cumin – 1 spoon
- Asafetida – 2 pinch
- Curry leaves – few coriander leaves
- Water - sufficient quantity
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Preparation
- Squeeze the tamarind juice in water.
- Add rock salt and a pinch of turmeric powder.
- Now add diced tomatoes, peeled garlic cloves.
- Add rasam powder*.
- Boil till the tomatoes become soft.
- Add cooked and mashed thur dal to it.
- Bring it to boil for few seconds.
- Season it with ghee, mustard, cumin and asafoetida.
- Garnish it with curry leaves and coriander leaves.
* Preparation of rasam powder – equal quantities of pepper, cumin seeds, coriander seeds, ½ part of thur Dal roasted and finally powdered.
