One Pot Rasam Rice
This one pot recipe is a breeze to assemble and the variations are endless! Make it today and enjoy a delicious meal.
Servings 3
Ingredients
- ½ cup rice read notes
- 2 tbsp toor dal
- 2 tbsp moong dal
- 1 tbsp tamarind paste or 2 tbsp raw tamarind soaked in 3 cups of water
- 1 tomato chopped
- 1 tsp pepper crushed
- 1 tsp cumin crushed
- 1 tsp hing or asafoetida
- 2 tsp sambar podi or rasam podi read notes
- garlic measure it with your heart, but anywhere from 3-5 cloves minimum
- coriander stems and leaves
- curry leaves
- 1 tsp ghee or oil
- 1 tsp mustard seeds
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- manathakkali or vepampoo for tempering
- additional ghee, because you crave comfort!
Instructions
- Soak rice and dal together for 15 minutes.
- Soak tamarind in water, if using raw tamarind. If using paste, it can be added directly.
- Chop tomato into chunks, garlic into slices and coriander stems finely.
- Crush pepper, cumin using a pestle and mortar and keep aside
Pressure Cooker recipe
- To a pressure cooker, add dal + rice, garlic, coriander stems, tomatoes, tamarind water or paste, hing, salt, crushed cumin and pepper, sambar/rasam podi and add 3 cups of water.
- Pressure cook for 4 whistles. Add as much boiling water ( about 1 cup) to bring to a flowy consistency. Add thalipu as explained below.
Instant Pot recipe
- To a Instant Pot, add dal + rice, garlic, coriander stems, tomatoes, tamarind water or paste, hing, salt, crushed cumin and pepper, sambar/rasam podi and add 3 cups of water.
- Close and cook in Pressure Cook/Manual mode for 5 minutes. Release pressure naturally and add boiling water ( about 1 cup) to bring to a flowy consistency. Add thalipu as explained below.
Thalipu
- In ghee or oil, add mustard, cumin, curry leaves, garlic and cook till browned. Add some coriander leaves to the thalipu and add to rasam rice.
Notes
Rice
In this recipe, any short grain rice like ponni, jeeraga samba, sona masoori work well. If you are not using rice, the same recipe works well with quinoa, millets or wheat rava as well.
Sambar Podi
I do not make a rasam podi usually, so use my regular sambar podi for this recipe. If you have a rasam podi you like, that works too. The additional pepper and cumin add immense flavour.
Thalipu
I love adding manthakaali or vepampoo as thalipu to this recipe, but some days Arun doesnt like it so I dont add! It works with whatever flavour you like - extra garlic if you please.