Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Rajma Curry


You Need:

Rajma (Red Kidney Beans) - 1cup
Onion - 1 medium, finely chopped
Tomato - 3, pureed
Potato - 1, medium, peeled & diced
Ginger, Garlic paste - 1 tbsp
Red chilli pwdr - 1 tsp
Garam masala - 1tsp
Dhaniya pwdr (Coriander pwdr) - 1 tbsp
Turmeric pwdr - 1tsp
Salt - 1.5 tsp or to taste
Cilantro - for garnishing

You Do:
  • Soak rajma overnight.
  • Pressure cook soaked rajma with 2 cups of water on high for 1 whistle. Then simmer for 10 min
  • In a wok or kadai, fry chopped onion in 2 tbsp oil, until slightly golden brown.
  • Add ginger-garlic paste and saute for some more time.
  • Add all the dry ingredients, mix-in properly and fry for about 5 min.
  • Now add pureed tomato, cook for few min or until oil separates from the mixture.
  • Add chopped potato, 1 cup water. Give it a proper stir and cook on medium heat for about 10 min. Potato at this stage is partly-cooked.
  • Add cooked rajma, 1 cup of water (here you can use water in which rajma was cooked). Bring to a boil and simmer it for about 15 min.
  • Serve hot with rice / chapati. Enjoy!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

this looks good