Rajma

A favorable dish of Punjab

Ingredients

1 cup red kidney beans (rajma)

2 onions, grated

1 tsp. chili powder

3 tbsp. Oil

Salt according to taste

To be grounded into a paste:
4 cloves garlic

4 green chilies

1 tsp. ginger

500 GMS tomatoes( separately ground it)

Serve with

Goes very well with rice & vinegar onion.

Method

1.Soak the red kidney beans overnight.
2.Next day, cook in a pressure cooker for half an hour.
3.Heat the oil and fry the onions for 5 minutes. Add the grounded ginger-garlic paste and chili powder and cook again for 3 minutes.
4.Add the tomato paste to this mixture and cook until the oil separates out.
5.Add the mixture to the boiled kidney beans.
6.Add the other spices and salt according to taste.
7.Cook again till 6 whistles or until the rajma (kidney beans) becomes thick. Serve hot.