Rajma Masala Gravy (kidney beans gravy ) is a very popular delicious, aromatic vegetarian dish made with kidney beans in a gravy of tomato and onion sauce.
Why you will love this dish?
This dish is abundantly rich in proteins, minerals, iron, and folate. It goes best with rice and is an absolute comfort food. You can make it with beans that come in a can or by soaking the dry beans overnight. I used light kidney beans soaked overnight to make this dish. Cook the beans and simmer well, so they become soft, and all the spices mentioned in the recipe infuse in them for an authentic taste. This goes well with rice dishes like Ghee rice or Vegetable Biryani or even with any bread like chapatis or rotis. Please read on for the full recipe.
Ingredients for Rajma Masala
- Rajma (Light kidney beans) - soak in water if using dry ones or canned ones.
- Onions, tomatoes, green chilies, ginger, and garlic paste.
- Powdered spices like turmeric, red chili powder, dry mango powder (to get a sour taste), coriander powder, garam masala, and salt.
- Whole spices like Cumin, cloves, and cinnamon.
- Garnishes like chopped coriander leaves, julienne-cut ginger pieces
How to make Rajma Masala Gravy?
We pressure cook the Kidney beans with spices in a tomato onion-based gravy after soaking them overnight in water. Add some oil and whole spices cumin seeds, cloves, and cinnamon to the pressure cooker. Next, add chopped onions and ginger garlic paste. Add finely or ground tomatoes.
When oil separates add turmeric, chili, cumin, coriander, amchur powder, and salt. Pressure cook for about four to five whistles. After pressure is released adjust the water simmer and garnish with chopped coriander leaves and ginger. Add fresh homemade garam masala in the end, and you can check out how to make fresh garam masala to get an authentic taste.
You may also love some other tomato onion-based gravies like Channa Masala, Amritsari Pindi Chole, Paneer tikka masala. Another popular gravy is quick paneer curry which is easy to make and tastes awesome.
Rajma Masala
Equipment
- 1 Pressure cooker
Ingredients
- 2 cups Kidney beans (soaked over night)
- 1 cup onion (finely chopped)
- 1 cup tomato (finely chopped)
- 2 green chillies slit use more if tolerated
- 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
- ½ tsp Turmeric powder
- 1 tsp red chilli powder Kashmiri
- 3 tsp Coriander powder
- ¼ tsp garam masala powder
- ¼ tsp dry mango powder
- 1 cup Coriander leaves (chopped for garnishing)
- 1 inch ginger (julienne cut for garnishing)
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 3-4 cloves
- ½ inch cinnamon
- 3 tbsp vegetable oil
Instructions
- Soak the kidney beans in plenty of water overnight
- In a pressure cooker add the oil
- Add cumin seeds, cloves, cinnamon
- Add chopped onions and sautee well
- Add ginger garlic paste and sautee till the raw smell goes away
- Add chopped tomatoes and sautee until it leaves oil from the sides
- Add all the spices turmeric, chilli, cumin, coriander, amchur powders , garam masala and salt
- Add the soaked kidney beans and mix well
- Add enough water and pressure cook for 15 to 20 mins or for about 4 whistles
- When pressure releases , simmer for another 10 mins
- Add chopped coriander leaves and ginger for garnishing.
- Rajma is ready, Serve with rice or rotis.
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Love the Rajma curry, perfect weeknight dinner.
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Ooooo... looks yummy! I’m sure it tasted good too.
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Absolute favourite curry. Your rajma masala looks delicious & yum. Loved it .
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Very nice Post about Rajma masala, Indian food lover will almost visit here to use. Thanks.
Thank you so much for the lovely comment , appreciate it!
Looks like a flavorful dish Nisha! If red chili powder and the dry mango powder were not added to the dish, would this affect the taste of the dish significantly? Thank you! 🙂
Thank you so much Anna for the lovely comment .I'm sure it will still taste good without the red chilli and dry mango powder although it may not have the bright color and spice .
This looks delicious!
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Oh my, this looks gorgeously yummy! My favorite!❤
Thank you so much Richa , my favorite as well!
Rajma chawal is one of my husband's favourites and I could tuck into it as soup any fine day. We clearly cook it the same way 🙂 xx
Same here Dippy, a favorite at my home as well , I love this recipe as it absorbs all the spices so well! Thank you 🙂
I can have Rajma at anytime , well captured 👍😋
Same here Ramya, Thank you so much for the comments, appreciate it !
Yumm ! Love Rajma Masala 😍Wonderful share Nisha!
Thank you so much Smitha , Rajma is a great comfort food and I love it as well!
Kidney beans are so versatile. Nice one Nisha. X
Very versatile indeed Lorelle . Thank you so much for the comments!
Absolutely love this... EPIC curry as well 👌
I agree it is an epic curry indeed and I never get bored of it. Thanks a lot Jyo , appreciate it!
Your photos making me feel hungry. I like to take it with jeera rice right now. 🙂
Jeera rice is indeed the best combination with this dish , Thank you Megala appreciate your comments!