Recipe: Perfect North Indian Rajma Chawal

North Indian Rajma Chawal.

You can cook North Indian Rajma Chawal using 13 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of North Indian Rajma Chawal

1. It's 1 cup of Rajma/kidney Beans.
2. You need 3 tsp of oil.
3. Prepare 2 of Tomatoes.
4. Prepare 1 of Onion (Optional).
5. It's to taste of Salt.
6. It's 1/2 tsp of Red chilli powder.
7. It's 1 tsp of Coriander Powder.
8. Prepare pinch of Hing/asafoetida.
9. You need 1 tsp of Garam Masala.
10. You need 1 of Bay leaf.
11. You need 1 tsp of Turmeric Powder.
12. You need 1 of Dry red chilli.
13. You need 1 tsp of Cumin seeds.

North Indian Rajma Chawal step by step

1. Soak Rajma over night or minimum 8 hrs..
2. Wash properly and pour it in a pressure cooker..
3. Add water 3 cups, little turmeric and one tbs salt and pressure cook upto 4-5 whistle..
4. One done check Rajma,should be soft and tender..
5. In a wok add oil, once hot,add bay leaf, cumin seeds and heeng.
6. Add roughly chopped onion and sotte it..
7. One soft and lil transparent add tomato roughly chopped and one green chilli. You can add ginger paste at this stage if you want to. I skipped that as my daughter doesn't like it's taste..
8. Once lil mushy,switch off flame and transfer mixture in a mixture bowl and grind in fine paste.
9. Now transfer same to wok, and add chilli powder as per taste, coriander powder 1 tbs, and cook it mixture leaves oil..
10. Now once oil starts to separate,add cooked rajma in same. Add some water if needed..
11. Cook for 10-15 min. You can adds salt as per taste if not sufficient in rajma..
12. Once this is done temper it with desi ghee tadka with dry chilli and degi mirch...