Rajma masala recipe, how to make rajma masala

Rajma Curry Recipe:
Rajma Masala is basically a curry and a well balanced dish made from cooked red kidney beans, which is cooked with onion tomato base and few aromatic Indian spices.

Rajma beans are good source of protein and it has many other health benefits too. Rajma masala a very comforting and soothing food and it goes well  with both roti/chapathi and rice too. Its everyones family favourite rajma masala. Do give a try and I bet you will love it.

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Prep time: 8hrs
Cooking time: 25mins
Cuisine : Indian
Yield: 3servings

Ingredients:

Rajma - 1 cup
Water - 4 cups
Oil - 2 tbsp
Cloves - 2
Bay leaf - 1
Zeera/cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
Onion - 1/2 cup (finely chopped)
Tomato - 2 medium (finely chopped)
Coriander powder - 1/2 tsp
Zeera powder - 1/2 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/3 tsp
Garam masala powder - 1/2 tsp
Red chilli powder - as per your taste
Kasturi/dried methi - 1 tbsp (crushed coarsely)
Fresh cilantro/coriander leaves - 1 tbsp (finely chopped)

Method:

1.) Wash and soak rajma over night with 4 cups of water.
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2.) Boil soaked rajma with water and pressure cook over medium flame until it turns soft, around 3 to 4 whistles. Turn off the flame and let the pressure release naturally (around 5-10 minutes) before opening the lid. Don't open the lid immediately as beans may not have cooked fully yet and steam inside pressure cooker will continue to cook them. Check the beans for softness. Now add 1/2 tsp salt to cooked rajma and water, give it a stir and let the rajma sit in salted water for a while and leave it a side for later use.
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3.) Take oil to a frying pan, add dry spices(zeera, cloves, bay leaf) and fry them for 20 seconds then following with ginger garlic paste and saute for 10 seconds. Now add finely chopped  onion along with little salt and fry it until translucent or as shown in the above picture.
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4.) Its time to add finely chopped tomato and cook it for 6 minutes or until soft. Now mash well the onion tomato mixture with potato masher, add dry spices (coriander pwd, zeera pwd, turmeric pwd, chilli pwd, garam masala) and give it a big stir.
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5.) Now add the cooked rajma, mix well and try to mash few cooked rajma beans with spatula.
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6.) Add the rajma water to the above mixture, adjust the salt and add crushed kasturi methi. Stir well and cook it for 5 minutes. Adjust the consistency of the curry by adding more of rajma water if needed.
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7.) Now garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve with zeera rice or roti.



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