Indian Rajma (kidney beans curry)
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"This is comfort food in India. It is a dish from Punjab. Its called Rajma in India. Rajma means kidney beans. Please go through the description properly because all the ingredients are not mentioned. All ingredients were not showing in the results may be because this includes ingredients which you typically find in Indian household. I hope you like this authentic Indian recipe."
Difficulty
Medium đIngredients
Utensils
frying pan, wok
Step 1/5
- 64 g dry kidney beans
Soak dry kidney beans overnight.
Step 2/5
- ½ cinnamon stick
- ½ bay leaf
- 1 black cardamom pods
In a pressure cooker. Add overnight soaked kidney beans. Then add water in just covering the kidney beans. Add black cardamom, cinnamon stick and bay leaves. add 1 tsp salt to it. Pressure cook for 15-20 min. The kidney beans should be easily mashed. If not pressure cook for 1-2 more whistles.
Step 3/5
- ½ tsp black cumin seeds
- ½ onion
- ½ slice ground ginger
- 2½ cloves garlic
- 1 tomatoes
- frying pan
In Indian cooking, we make onion tomato paste to make the base of the gravy. so to make a puree/paste. In a pan add 2 tbsp of clarified butter or any oil of your preference. Add 1 tsp cumin seeds. Add the onion and cook it till it turns brown. Then add ginger and garlic. Add 2 tomatoes. Cook the tomatoes till it loses moisture. Add 1/4 cup water close the lid of the pan and cook. Add 1/2 tsp ginger powder. Cool it for some time. Grind everything in a grinder into a paste.
Step 4/5
- ½ dried chili
- 1 tsp ground coriander
- ½ tsp ground turmeric
- Âź tsp black peppercorn
- wok
In a wok. Heat oil add 1 TSP red chilli powder. Add the onion tomato paste. Cook it till the oil separates. The paste should look dark red brownish colour. Add 2 tsp coriander powder, 1/2 tsp tumeric powder, 1/2 tsp black pepper powder. This process should take at least 15 min.
Step 5/5
In the wok. Add the rajma with its water. Let it cook for 10 min on low flame. so that all the flavour mix in. To finish add chopped coriander leaves, 1 TSP Garam masala and 1/2 tsp roasted cumin powder. make sure it's roasted. give it a mix. You can adjust the consistency of the gravy according to your wish! Enjoy this with steamed rice.
