Rajma Tomato Curry.

Rajma Tomato Curry is a tasty and delicious side dish made with Rajma (red kidney beans) cooked in spicy onion tomato gravy. Rajma Tomato Curry goes well as a side dish with rice, chapathi or phulkas.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Rajma Tomato Curry.

Ingredients:-

Rajma /Kidney beans. -1cup
Onion.                          - 3
Tomato.                        - 4
Green chilly.                 - 1
Ginger.                         - a small piece
Red chilly powder.        -1tsp
Coriander powder.        -2 tsp
Turmeric powder.          -1/4 tsp
Amchur powder.            -1tsp
Garam Masala powder. -1tsp
Cumin powder.              -1tsp
Kasoori methi.               -1tsp
Cumin seeds.                -1tsp
Salt.                               - to taste
Sugar.                            -1tsp
Butter.                            - 2tsp

Instructions:-

1). Wash Rajma (Red Kidney beans)in water and soak for 8 hours or overnight. Drain the soaked water and pressure cook the Rajma adding 2 and 1/2 cup of water for 6 or 7 whistles on High flame and switch off the flame.Open the cooker lid only after the pressure releases completely. Keep aside the cooked Rajma.

2). Wash the Tomatoes and boil in a vessel adding required water. Grind to a fine Tomato puree and keep aside.

3). Peel and chop Onion into very small pieces and keep aside.

4). Wash the Green chilly and chop into small pieces.Scrap the outer skin of a small Ginger piece and chop into small pieces. Crush the Green chilly pices and Ginger pieces together to a coarse paste using mortar and pestle. Keep aside the coarsely crushed Ginger Green chilly paste.

Method:-

1). Heat butter in a wide bottom pan and splutter Cumin seeds.

2). Add the coarsely crushed Ginger Green chilly paste into the pan and saute well till the raw smell goes off.

3). Add chopped Onion pieces and a pinch of Salt into the pan.Saute well and cook until the Onion pieces become translucent.

4). Add Tomato puree and mix well with the cooked Onion pieces.

5). Add Coriander powder, Red chilly powder, Turmeric powder and Garam Masala powder and mix with the Onion Tomato mixture.

6). Add the cooked Rajma along with water into the pan and mix well.

7). Add required Salt into the pan and mix well. Boil and cook Rajma for 3 minutes on low flame.

8). Add Amchur powder and Sugar and mix well.

9). Lastly add crushed Kasoori methi into the pan. Mix well all the ingredients and boil for few minutes and switch of the flame.

10). Transfer the Rajma Tomato Curry to a serving dish.

A tasty Rajma Tomato Curry is ready to serve with rice, chapathi, phulkas etc.