Really good Rasam stock from vegetables
      Posted by Nick shrimpton on October 18, 1999 at 18:03:26

      7 Cups water
      2 onions,
      2 carrots or radishes
      2 celerey sticks,
      handful coriander leaves
      1/2 cup Tuvaru Parripu washed,
      handful dried
      mushrooms (oriental type)
      handful Dried seaweed
      like Japanese Hijiki,
      Wakame, Arame etc,
      1 tsp crshed Peppercorns,
      1" sliced ginger.

      Directions; Boil water, add chopped vegetable
      and all the other ingrediants. Skim then cook
      covered for 1 hour. Strain well and use as
      flavoury base for Rasams instead of plain dal water.