Pineapple Rasam | Spicy Indian style Pineapple Soup
Everything you look for in a good rasam comes together in this Pineapple Rasam recipe. It is sweet, sour, and spicy and is perfect to drink as a soup or to eat with rice.
For the month-long Blogging Marathon, I am blogging about a few of my favorite foods from classic South Indian (Tamil) weddings. Pineapple rasam is one such recipe that is often made for the wedding menu.

This pineapple soup is mostly made for dinner on the reception day. Everything you look for in a good rasam comes together in this Pineapple Rasam recipe. It is sweet, sour, and spicy and is perfect to drink as a soup or to eat with rice.
Love to eat this delicious pineapple rasam with fried potato curry and appalam (papad). This rasam is one of my father's favorite ones and I asked my mother to make it for us now that she is here with us for a few days.
Ingredients to make Pineapple Rasam
- Tomato - 2 small or 1 large (chopped)
- Pineapple - ½ cup (chopped fine with juice)
- Cooked toor dal/Thuvaram paruppu - ½ cup
- Lime or lemon - juice of 1
- Green chilies - 4
- Asafetida - ¼ tsp
- Turmeric powder - ½ tsp
- Salt - to taste
- Cilantro - few
- Ghee - 1 tsp
- Mustard seeds - 1 tsp

Procedure
- Boil the tomatoes and green chilies in about 2 cups of water. Also add the turmeric powder, asafoetida, and salt to this water and let it boil well (about 12 mins).

- Pressure cook the toor dal until mushy and then dilute it with about 4 cups of water. Once the rasam reduces to about half its quantity, add the diluted paruppu (dal) water to it.

- Now add the chopped pineapple with its juice to the rasam and let it simmer.

- Once the rasam starts to froth up, add the juice of one lime or lemon and garnish with cilantro.

- Fry the mustard seeds in about a teaspoon of ghee and add it to the pineapple rasam.
- Serve pineapple rasam hot with rice or slurp as soup!

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Recipe

Pineapple Rasam | Spicy Indian style Pineapple Soup
Equipment
- Pressure Cooker
Ingredients
- 2 Small Tomato (Or 1 Large) Chopped
- ½ cup Pineapple Chopped fine with juice
- ½ cup Cooked toor dal/Thuvaram paruppu
- 1 Lime or lemon Juice of 1
- 4 Green chilies
- ¼ teaspoon Asafetida
- ½ teaspoon Turmeric powder
- To taste Salt
- Few Cilantro
- 1 teaspoon Ghee
- 1 teaspoon Mustard seeds
Instructions
- Boil the tomatoes and green chilies in about 2 cups of water. Also add the turmeric powder, asafetida, and salt to this water and let it boil well (about 12 mins).
- Pressure cook the toor dal until mushy and then dilute it with about 4 cups of water. Once the rasam reduces to about half its quantity, add the diluted paruppu (dal) water to it.
- Now add the chopped pineapple with its juice to the rasam and let it simmer.
- Once the rasam starts to froth up, add the juice of one lime or lemon and garnish with cilantro.
- Fry the mustard seeds in about a teaspoon of ghee and add it to the rasam.
- Serve hot with rice or slurp as soup!










What is asafetida? Looks delish! I love your website! Found you looking up mangos! I am American and want to learn to cook Indian food! ?
Love this tangy rasam.
Never knew pineapple is also used in rasam. Thanks for sharing this tempting recipe
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Delectable rasam, Love the taste and flavor of this rasam
I have heard about this delicious rasam but haven't tried yet. Good one.
Pineapple rasam looks so yumm.
I have had this once and fell in love with the tomato and pineapple combination. Wonderful treat this one is.
Love the flavor of pineapple in rasam!
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Never pineapple rasam, it definitely sounds sweet and delicious.
looks absolutely smashing!! 🙂
i had forgotten about this, i had bookmarked this loong back, will definitely try now
Love thiss flavourful rasam, been ages i had them.
love this rasam
I have yet to try these fruity rasams...they do sound interesting.
Wow! Pineapple rasam sounds lovely! Will try it out! 🙂
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feel like having a sip right now!
Thats such a fusion rasam. I love the flavours used.
I tried a pineapple rasam recipe last year and loved it so much. is now one of my faves and I make it semi-regularly
Very nice, I have heard so much about this rasam being served in such occasions..must have tasted great..