Rajma Recipe - Kidney Beans Curry

Rajma is a popular Punjabi vegetarian curry made of red kidney beans cooked with onions and tomatoes. Its usually served with white rice or roti. Aditya and Kirthana like beans a lot and they love rajma or chole with their roti nd i make one of theses at least once a week. Its a good source of protein and specially Aditya beacause he doesnot like is lentils that much loves these beans with rice or roti or just by itself. This version of rajama is very simple as it doesn't involve any grinding.

Preparation time: 40 min

Serving : 4 people

Ingredients

2 cup Red Kidney Beans or Rajma 
3 medium size Tomato cut to small pieces
1 medium onions finely chopped
2 green chilies slit lengthwise
¼ Tsp Turmeric Powder
1/2 inch piece Ginger grated
3 garlic pods grated
1 Tbs Coriander powder
1/2 Tbs Jeera powder
1/2 Tbs Red chili powder
1/2 Tbs dry mango powder or amchur powder (optional)
1/2 Tsp Garam masala ( I used Everest brand)
1/2 Tbs salt (or to taste)
½ Tsp mustard seeds

1 Tbs Oil
coriander leaves to garnish

Procedure

1. Rinse and soak the Rajma or red kidney beans for 8-9 hours or overnight.
2. Wash the soaked beans and pressure cook for 7-8 whistles on high
3. Heat a pan on medium high and add 1 Tbs oil.
4. Add he mustard seeds and when they splutter add the onions and saute till transparent.
5. Add the green chills grated ginger and garlic and saute for a minute.
6. Add the tomatoes all the spices in the ingredients list except the coriander leaves and cook till the tomatoes are soft and all mussy looking like a gravy about 5 minutes.
7. Now add the pressure cooked beans and also add some of the water they were cooked in to the gravy.
8. Cover and cook for 20-30 minutes on low flame.
9. Garnish with coriander leaves.
10. Serve with rice or roti.

You can use canned red kidney beans they also work good and it is easy on a busy day when we do not have time to soak and pressure cook. ( Two 16 oz cans for the above recipe)

There is Rajma masala available in the Indian store and it tastes very good. If u get that then you can only that and salt and do not need all the other spices mentioned above.