‹‹‹---- BACK 

Fire Soup with Cucumber Riata

Makes 4 servings.

INGREDIENTS
• 3 cups of peeled, diced tomatoes
• 1 onion, chopped
• 4 cloves garlic, crushed
• 4 green chillies, chopped
• 1 tbsp jaggery**
• 1 tsp brown mustard seeds
• 10 fresh curry leaves** (this is absolutely necessary and absolutely worth the trip to get the leaves)
• 1 red chilli, broken into two
• 1 tsp coriander seeds – roasted & powdered
• 1 tsp cuminseeds – roasted & powdered
• 2 tsps peppercorns – roasted & powdered
• 1⁄2 tbsps oil
• 4 cups of vegetable stock

To make the soup:

1. Boil the tomatoes and jaggery in 4 cups of water.
2. Heat the oil.
3. Splutter the mustard seeds.
5. Add the curry leaves, red chilli, asafoetida powder and onion and fry for a minute.
6. Add the ground spices, green chillies and garlic and toss in the pan for another minute.
6. Pour it over the tomatoes and simmer for 20 minutes.
7. Serve hot.

To make the riata:

1. peel, seed, and slice 1 cucumber into thin small triangle pieces.
2. Empty a 16 ounce container of yogurt into a serving bowl, add 1 teaspoon of salt, 1/8 teaspoon of freshly ground pepper, 1/2 teaspoon of roasted ground cumin seed.
3. Stir and chill. serve as a side with the Fire Soup.

**the noted ingredients are essential to this soup and are most easily found in an ethnic Indian grocer.
If you are in Pittsburgh, there is a very helpful store on Craig Street beside Luca Restaurant.
Kohli's Indian Imports - 319 S Craig St, Pittsburgh, 15213 - (412) 621-1800

adapted from:
http://www.indiaexpress.com/cooking/simple_rasam.html

 

Home ••••• Family Albums••••• Neelyhouse-Flickr••••• Big Soup Party •••••Recipes••••• Links ••••• Contact us