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.

Pineapple rasam in a Bowl with some pineapple pieces

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
Pineapple rasam served in a dish with bowl

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).
Pineapple rasam cooking in Bowl
  • 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.
Pineapple rasam in a pot
  • Now add the chopped pineapple with its juice to the rasam and let it simmer.
adding pineapple pulp to the boiling rasam
  • Once the rasam starts to froth up, add the juice of one lime or lemon and garnish with cilantro.
Pineapple rasam with some coriander
  • 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!
Pineapple rasam is Ready to served

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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.
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Course: Breakfast, Lunch Recipes
Cuisine: Indian, South Indian
Diet: Vegetarian
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes
Servings: 6 people
Calories: 75kcal

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!

Nutrition

Calories: 75kcal | Carbohydrates: 14g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 2mg | Sodium: 112mg | Potassium: 98mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 253IU | Vitamin C: 18mg | Calcium: 15mg | Iron: 1mg
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21 Comments

  1. 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! ?

  2. I have had this once and fell in love with the tomato and pineapple combination. Wonderful treat this one is.

  3. 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

  4. Very nice, I have heard so much about this rasam being served in such occasions..must have tasted great..

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