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rajma masala
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rajma masala |red kidney beans masala

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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
soaking time 8 hours
Total Time 8 hours 35 minutes
Servings: 4
Course: Side Dish
Cuisine: North Indian, punjabi
Ingredients Method

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

Method
 

Blanching and grinding:
  1. 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.
  2. Boil it for 3 minutes
  3. Then take off from the pan, cool it
  4. after that transfer into a blender jar, blend it into a fine paste and keep it aside
Making rajma masala:
  1. Heat the pressure cooker, put 2 tbsp of ghee, Add the spices (1 bay leaf, 1 tsp cumin, 1 black cardamom, 5 cloves)
  2. Then put 1 green chilly, saute
  3. Next, put the ground paste, just give a quick stir in low flame
  4. 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
  5. And then add soaked rajma, and salt
  6. Pour in 1 cup of water
  7. Lid on, Pressure cook this for 10 whistles, First 5 whistles in high flame and next 5 whistles in low flame
  8. After pressure released naturally, open the lid
  9. add ½ tsp of garam masala, mix well
  10. cook it for anothr 2minutes in low flame
  11. And then turn off the flame, put 1 tsp of Kasuri methi, Give a quick stir
    It is done. Spicy rajma masala is ready.