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This is an absolutely easy recipe that can be made with a few ingredients and under 30 minutes. Tastes wonderful with any dry side dish – be it non veg (beef sukka, chicken sukka) or veg (sonay sukhe). You can drink it up – freshly made & piping hot, if you have a cold – perfect to get rid of a stuffy nose, headache and the works. The amount of peppercorns used in this preparation may seen too much, however, surprisingly it doesn’t feel enough in comparison to the tang provided by the tomatoes. But do play safe if you must and reduce the quantity. I recommend you keep freshly ground/pounded pepper handy to sprinkle later if you must. Don’t use store bought pepper if you can help it.
Tomato Saar (with pepper & cumin)
Prep time: 10 mins | Cook time: 10 mins | Serves 4
You Need:
- 3 medium sized tomatoes * see notes
- 1 tablespoon peppercorns *see notes
- 1 teaspoon cumin/jeera
- 2 cups water
- 1-2 tablespoons tamarind juice (optional) * see notes
- 1/4 teaspoon red chilli powder (or to taste) (optional) * see notes
- 1 tablespoon chopped coriander leaves for garnishing (optional)
- salt to taste
For seasoning
- oil for seasoning
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin/jeera
- 1 sprig curry leaves
Method:
1. Wash the tomatoes and transfer into a deep pan. Add enough water to cover them and bring it to a boil. Allow to boil for 5 minutes or till you see the skin cracking up – retain the boiled water and transfer the tomatoes into a bowl of fresh water.
2. Skin the tomatoes and rinse the skin in the boiled water and discard. Chop the skinned tomatoes and grind them along with the peppercorns and cumin to a fine paste. It is ok if one or two peppercorns remain whole.
3. On a medium flame heat the oil for seasoning in a kadhai/wok or a heavy bottomed pan and toss in the 1/2 teaspoon of cumin and fry for a couple of minutes, reduce the flame add the curry leaves and the ground paste for a couple of minutes. Fry for about 2 minutes or till the oil leaves the masala. Add 2 cups water, salt to taste and bring the mixture to a boil.
4. Optional step: Depending on how sour the tomatoes are adjust the taste by adding tamarind juice if required. Adjust the spiciness by adding chilly powder.
5. Turn off the flame, garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve with rice.
Notes:
1. Preferably use juicy round tomatoes that are just ripe.
2. Increase the peppercorns to a total of 2 tablespoons if you like a spicy saar. Alternatively use the chilli powder to adjust the spice – this is a better option than increasing peppercorns as it can turn very spicy
Delicious and droolworthy soup. Amazing pics.
Deepa
One of our family fav!!!Perfect for any weather!! Looks very tempting Shireen!!! 😉
Prathima Rao
Prats Corner
Tried this receipe and it came out really well :)Thanks for the nice post..
Hi Shireen ,
I love U for this. This recipe is very delicious and simple with few ingredient I tried & came out really good. My hubby also like it. Thanks for sharing If you know please share traditional rasam recipe of tur dal.
Huuummmmm
@ Deepa & Prathima: Thank you darlings!!
@ Sanisha: Thanks for trying, so glad you liked it 🙂
@ Sheetal: Thanks so much for your lovely feedback and I am glad your hubby loved it too! I will share the recipe of traditional rasam as soon as I try it 🙂
@ Ameera: Thank you!
I am going to try this today…So easy and quick to prepare..will pair it up with fish fry 🙂
@ Preeti S: Thanks so much, I hope you liked it!
Dear Shireen, Tried this one too, turned out very good. I like how detail you are in description, it really help me because I cannot cook without any measurements 🙂
@ D'Souza: Thanks so much for your feedback 🙂 happy to know that the measurements helped you!
I have been making saar from ages but never made it this way it was so spicy and good it had a touch of rasam
Hi Dilavez,
That’s good to know! Thanks a lot for your feedback!!
Alryt
Yo!
I have tried a lot of your recipes n all are awesome! Thanks for starting this blog and all the best dear always!
Thank you so much for the wonderful words Magdelene!!