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
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.
Video recipe for rajma masala | red kidney beans masala:
Written recipe:
rajma masala |red kidney beans masala
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 garlicBoil 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 stirIt is done. Spicy rajma masala is ready.
Step-wise Picture Recipe:
Making Rajma masala:
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):
Chitra Rajma (kidney beans) 
Kashmiri Rajma (kidney beans) 
This is Red kidney Beans This is the variety I used in this Recipe
Red kidney beans have lots of health benefits, so, do try to include it often in your diet
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