Nimbe hannina saaru recipe | How to make lemon rasam | Nimbe hannu bele saru
By Latha on December 17th, 2019
Nimbe hannina saaru or lemon rasam recipe explained with step by step pictures and a video. This is a very easy and very tasty lemon rasam or nimbe hannina saaru. This nimbe hannna saaru is prepared using toor dal, tomato, green chilli, garlic, cumin seeds, coriander leaves, grated coconut, salt, mustard and curry leaves. Nimbe hannina saaru or lemon rasam is very tasty, healthy and goes very well with rice.
This tangy nimbe hannu saaru or lemon rasam is sour, a bit spicy, filled lemon flavour and a very good appetizer. Especially when you are down with cold and fever...this rasam is very soothing and comforting. You can find one more lemon rasam recipe on this website. Recently I posted one article about recipes from lemon peels. Which many found useful and I got a very good response from the readers. Also I have few more recipes using lemon like lemon ginger pickle, no-onion lemon rice, instant lemon pickle and moong dal lemon rasam recipes.
If you are looking for more rasam recipes then do check Doddapathre rasam, Udupi rasam, cowpea rasam and fenugreek seed rasam, upsaaru, Mango rasam, avarekalu saaru and sabsige soppu (dill leaves) rasam recipes.
I have made a quick video on this nimbe hannina saaru recipe with Kannada narration, which I have embedded it below. Kindly have a look.
Preparation time: 5 min
Cooking time: 20 min
Serves: 2 cup
Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 1/4 cup toor dal (or green gram dal)
- Big pinch turmeric
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 1 tomato chopped
- 4 tsp lemon juice (or as per your taste)
- Salt as per your taste
- 2 tbsp coriader leaves
- 2 tbsp fresh grated coconut
- 2 cups of water
Ingredients for tempering:
- 1 - 2 green chilli
- 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
- 4 - 5 crushed garlic (or a pinch of asafoetida
- 7 - 8 curry leaves
- 1 tbsp cooking oil
Instructions for making nimbe hannu saaru or lemon rasam:
- Take toor dal in a pressure cooker. You can use moong dal (green gram dal) too.
- Rinse it well and add in a tsp of cumin seeds.
- Also add in chopped tomato.
- Add in a cup of water and a big pinch of turmeric powder.
- Cook until dals turn soft by making 3 - 4 whistles.
- Mash the dal and tomato using the back of a spatula.
- Add in a cup of water and salt as per your taste.
- Next prepare tempering with oil, mustard seeds, curry leaves, crushed garlic and green chilli. Adjust the green chillies as per your spice level.
- Pour the tempering into the container, which has cooked dal and tomato.
- Keep it for boiling and give a quick mix.
- Continue boiling for 4 - 5 minutes. Meantime add in chopped coriander leaves and fresh grated coconut.
- Bring it to rolling boil and switch off the stove.
- Immediately add in lemon juice. And serve it with hot steaming rice.
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