Rajma aaloor jhol torkari

Rajma-aaloor jhol-trokari (red kidney beans with potatoes)

description: this is a vegetarian side dish with rice/ruti. Also can be had as a soup. The recipe is ripped off from a recipe taken from the Hawkins Futura cookbook. I have added some extra trimmings to it.

Ingredients: Rajma/ Red kidney beans (2 cups): soak overnight.

Aloo/ Potatoes: two, medium.

Pyanj/Onion: one large.

Lemon: one (or lemon juice)

Tomatos: two (or puree)

Masala: haldi, lonka guro, shukno lonka(3), garam masala, gota jeere, shorshe.

Ginger-garlic paste.

Method: chop the onion into really small pieces. Peel the potatoes, and slice into small pieces (too large means that this will not go well with the rajma, and also takes a longer time to cook). Heat two tablespoons of oil in the pressure cooker, add gota jeere and shorse. When they start sputtering, add the onion and mix, stir fry to golden brown. Add one spoon of ginger garlic paste and the other masala. Stir. Add tomato (diced/puree). Mix and stir on high heat until oil starts separating from the mixture. Add the potatoes and mix thoroughly, add rajma and 4-5 cups pf water. Put the lid on and let it cook at medium pressure for 20 minutes(Futura) or for 4 whistles (regular). Let it cool down and add salt and lemon juice (2 spoons) or squeeze a cut lemon into the rajma. Serve with rice.