Recipe: Tasty Kidney bean gravy/rajma gravy

Kidney bean gravy/rajma gravy. Dhaba style rajma curry which is super easy to make and needs just few spices. It doesn't need onions or tomatoes in this. Rajma gravy is a lightly spiced, creamy, and delicious Punjabi curry made with kidney beans, onions, tomatoes, and spices.

In Indian cuisine, a lot of legumes are eaten regularly as they are the main source of protein & fiber. Lentils, chickpeas, peas, black eyed peas and red kidney beans are some of them used to make curries. Rajma chawal is a favorite combo in many North Indian households. You can have Kidney bean gravy/rajma gravy using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Kidney bean gravy/rajma gravy

1. It's 1 of glass kidney beans.
2. Prepare 3 of onion.
3. Prepare 4 of garlic.
4. You need 1 of inch ginger.
5. Prepare 4 of tomato.
6. You need 3 of green chillies or as per ur taste.
7. You need 2 of tsp mustard oil/any oil.
8. You need of Salt as per taste.
9. Prepare 1/2 of tspTurmeric powder.
10. It's 1/2 of tspKashmiri red chilli powder.
11. It's 1/2 of tspGaram masala.
12. Prepare 1/2 of tspCoriander powder.
13. Prepare 1/2 of tsp Roasted cumin seed powder.
14. Prepare of Fresh coriander for garnishing.

Recently I bought a pack of Rajma ( Red kidney beans in English,Karamani or Karamani Payir in Tamil , Rajma in Punjabi,Hindi , Capparadavare in Kannada, Chikkuduginjalu / Nallachikkudu in Telugu ) to try some gravy/masala for rice. I have heard a lot about Rajma Chawal, a popular North Indian Dish. Rajma Masala is an authentic Punjabi dish made with red kidney beans, cooked in onion-tomato gravy along with spices. This comes to my rescue when I run out of veggies.

Kidney bean gravy/rajma gravy instructions

1. Soak kidney beans for 5-6hrs.make a paste onion,garlic and ginger.
2. Make a paste of tomato and green chillies,in a pan cook onion paste,add salt,turmeric powder and red chilli powder when onion released oil.
3. Add tomato puree and cook till oil released.add kidney beans and 2 glass water in the masala and pressure cooker for 3 whistle.
4. It's cooked now.
5. Transfer again in the kadai /pan add all dry spices and garnish with fresh coriander and serve with jeera rice.

Moreover its Chotus favourite, Rajma Masala. Furthermore, I would like to share some of my suggestions for making rajma masala. Firstly, in this recipe, I used canned beans. Because it does not require the soaking and cooking steps. The taste of Rajma (red kidney beans) cooked in a tomato onion gravy enriched with spices (Masala) makes you ask for more.