Orange Lemon Soup:

Orange-Lemon Rasam. Orange-Neembakai Saaru.

Lemons and Oranges are rich in Vitamin-C. Most of vitamins lie only close to the skin and on the skin. The lethery rind(jacket)is also loaded with essential oils! Since some of the vitamins are oil soluble and to make use of those essential oils….its good to cook them for a while than eating raw! Cooking makes certain vitamins available to the body!

Ingredients:

Orange 1 fruit(washed & sliced)
Lemon juice 1 cup
Salt enough
Dry red chilies 6 broken
Peppercorns 4
Cumin seeds 1/4 spoon
Curry leaves crushed few
Mustard seeds 1/4 spoon
Asafoetida 1 pinch
Turmeric 1 pinch
Oil few spoons.

Method:

Heat oil….in a wok. Add mustard, asafoetida, chilies, curry leaves, pepper and cumin seeds. Wait till they pop.

Add salt and turmeric…..plus lemon juice, orange slices and 4 cups of water.

Bring this to boil and remove from heat. Garnish with cilanto leaves.

Take them as soup! It may no tbe good enough with rice…like any other rasam! Its safe to drink as soup!