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Rajma ( red bean curry)




Source of Recipe


Brenda Lee Olson


Recipe Introduction


From Petrina Verma Sarkar,

This dish is extremely popular not just in North India but elsewhere as well. Serve Rajma with plain boiled rice, Kachumbar salad and your favorite pickle.



List of Ingredients




* 2 cans red kidney beans, drained and rinsed under running water
* 2 tbsps vegetable/canola/ sunflower cooking oil
* 1 tsp cumin seeds
* 2 medium-sized onions chopped fine
* 2"piece of ginger jullinned
* 6 cloves of garlic minced
* 2 large tomatoes chopped into 1" cubes
* 2 fresh green chillies chopped fine
* 2 tsps coriander powder
* 1 tsp cumin powder
* 1 tsp garam masala
* 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
* Salt to taste
* A pinch of asafetida
* Chopped coriander to garnish


Recipe



* Heat the oil in a deep pan and add the cumin seeds. When they
stop sizzling, add the onion and fry till soft.
* Add the ginger and garlic and fry for 2 minutes.
* Add the green chillies, tomatoes, coriander, cumin, turmeric and
garam masala powders and fry till the oil separates from the masala.
* Add the red kidney beans, 4 cups of warm water, asafetida, salt
to taste and cook till beans are very soft (aproximately 10 minutes).
* Mash some of the beans roughly (this thickens the gravy).
* Garnish with corainder and serve piping hot with plain boiled
rice and Kachumbar salad and a pickle of your choice.