A friend came over and prepared rasam using the sakthi masala powder. She soaked some tamarind and squeezed out the juice from it, coarsely chopped tomatoes and slit green chillies and boiled these ingredients in water along with rasam powder for around 10 minutes. Thereafter she added boiled toor dal and added a tadka of mustard seeds and aesofetida powder in hot ghee. The way she prepared the rasam was similiar to the directions for the MTR Rasam powder. The sakthi pack does not instruct one to add toor dal. http://www.mtrfoods.com/masalapowders/rasampowder.htm The link to the sakthi rasam powder is: http://www.ishopindian.com/shop/sakthi-rasam-powder-pr-23694.html
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