rajma masala | red kidney beans masala is the spicy curry, It is a combination of whole spices rajma and onion, ginger garlic, and tomatoes This curry is a good side dish with rice, rotis, and even with dosa. It is delicious curry from Punjabi cuisine.

It is a Pressure cooker Recipe

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There are 3 types of rajma beans in the market

Red kidney beans: These are dark red in color.

Kashmiri kidney beans: These beans look small while the color is the same with red kidney beans

Chitra kidney beans: This is mustard colour beans with red patches

In this recipe, I used Red kidney beans. This beans would take more time to boil, Let us see how to make rajma masala | red kidney beans masala.

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rajma masala |red kidney beans masala

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Prep Time 5

Cook Time 30

soaking time 8

Total Time 8 35

Course Side Dish

Cuisine North Indian, punjabi

Servings 4

Ingredients

1 cup Red kidney beans (rajma) soaked overnight or 8 hours
2 onion 150gram
4 tomato 300 gram
3 garlic (big)
1 inch ginger
2 tbsp ghee/ oil
1 bay leaf
1 tsp cumin
2 inch cinnamon
5 cloves
1 black cardamom (or 4 green cardamom)
1 tbsp Coriander powder
2 tsp chilly powder
½ tsp cumin powder
¼ tsp turmeric powder
½ tsp garam masala powder
1 cup water
1 tsp Kasuri methi (coriander leaves

Instructions

Blanching and grinding:

First of all, we need to blanch the onion, tomato, ginger, and garlic
Boil the water in a pot, bring into a boil, put the 2 onion chopped, 4 tomatoes chopped, ginger, and 3 big sized garlic.
Boil it for 3 minutes
Then take off from the pan, cool it
after that transfer into a blender jar, blend it into a fine paste and keep it aside

Making rajma masala:

Heat the pressure cooker, put 2 tbsp of ghee, Add the spices (1 bay leaf, 1 tsp cumin, 1 black cardamom, 5 cloves)
Then put 1 green chilly, saute
Next, put the ground paste, just give a quick stir in low flame
Now add the spice powders (1 tbsp coriander powder, 2 tsp kashmiri red chilly powder, ¼ tsp turmeric powder, ½ tsp cumin powder), saute it for 30 seconds
And then add soaked rajma, and salt
Pour in 1 cup of water
Lid on, Pressure cook this for 10 whistles, First 5 whistles in high flame and next 5 whistles in low flame
After pressure released naturally, open the lid
add ½ tsp of garam masala, mix well
cook it for anothr 2minutes in low flame
And then turn off the flame, put 1 tsp of Kasuri methi, Give a quick stir
It is done. Spicy rajma masala is ready.

Keyword rajma masala, red kidney beans masala

Step-wise Picture Recipe:

firstly boil the water in pot for blanching

Add in 3 garlic, 1 inch ginger, 2 onion chopped, 4 tomato chopped

take off the blanched ginger, garlic, onion and tomato

After it got cooled, transfer into a blender jar

Making Rajma masala:

Heat 2 tbsp of ghee in a pressure cooker

Now add the spice mentioned in the picture

rajma masala | red kidney beans masala — And then add spice powders, mix it for 30 seconds in low flame

Pressure cook for ***5 whistles in high flame next 5 whistles in low flame*** (10 whistles)

Note: 10 whistles for red kidney beans only, if you are going to use other kidney beans (like kashmiri kidney beans and chitra kidney beans) 4 whistles would be enough

Now the rajma masala | red kidney beans masala is ready to serve

Note:

Soaking Rajma for 8 hours or overnight is a must thing.
Instead of black cardamom, we can use 4 green cardamoms. But Black cardamom plays a vital role in the flavor of this masala, So add the black one if you can
This rajma masala is a good combination of rice and rotis
Only red kidney beans need to cook for 10 whistles in the pressure cooker, if you are going to use the other varieties 4 whistles will be enough to cook

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Pictures of 3 variety of Rajma (kidney beans):