Delicious looking rajma. Love the colour of the curry. I’ve tried out this curry in India with red beans bought from the shop and have failed to make them perfectly as even though I soak the beans overnight they still remain hard.
The first time I tasted this delicious dish is when I doing my engineering course. My friend had hosted the lunch for all of us and his mother cooked this delicious dish for us. The dish was so lip-smacking that all of us gathered around her and pestered her to share the recipe. Once back home we did try to replicate the dish but we could not match her taste at all. From then it is always been bettering myself. Today I tried the same recipe in Nutri-pot or the electric pressure cooker and this Nutripot Rajma Masala is so quick and easy to make that I will be making this often.
Preparing any dish in the nutri-pot is easier than preparing it in the stove top is my observation. Here I have soaked the bean overnight. Then sauteed the masala consisting of onion, tomato, ginger garlic and chilly and then added the dry masala powders along with the salt. Later the soaked bean is added to this and the required amount of water too. Now the whole mixture is pressure cooked in the rajma setting available on the nutri-pot. Very easy to make and I feel this way of cooking retains a lot more of the infused flavours.
I have also cooked rajma masala on stove -top which can be seen here.
For the group Shhh cooking secretly, I have been paired with Narmadha who blogs at Nam’s corner. Her posts on mango this season are too good. Check out her blog space for all of those delicious desserts. Narmadha suggested that I use butter and coriander to whip up a Punjabi dish which is the suggested theme for this month and I chose this Nutri-pot rajma masala for the theme. I suggested that she use dal and green chillies and she has come up with a very delicious Dal Makhni recipe. Hop on to her blog and check out her recipe
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Soak rajma in enough water overnight |
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Dice the onions, ginger and garlic finely |
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Chop the tomatoes finely, puree it and keep aside |
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Preheat the nutri-pot in saute mode |
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Add butter to it and once it melts add the finely chopped ginger, green chillies and garlic and saute for few seconds |
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Now add the finely cut onions and saute till it turns brown |
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Add the tomato puree and cook till the fat seperates |
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Now add the turmeric powder, chillipowder, coriander powder, cumin powder, garam masala and salt. Mix well and cook for 2 minutes |
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Add the drained rajma beans and 1 1/2 cups of water. Mix well |
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Cancel the saute mode. Press the Rajma mode. I usually change the pressure setting to HIgh |
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Cook for 45 minutes and let the pressure settle naturally |
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Add fresh coriander and serve warm with steamed brown rice |
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Delicious looking rajma. Love the colour of the curry. I’ve tried out this curry in India with red beans bought from the shop and have failed to make them perfectly as even though I soak the beans overnight they still remain hard.
The gravy sounds simple and delicious… rajma being one of my favorite beans, I would have had that as is!
Wow, the Rajma Masala looks delish! Tempts me to dig in straight away, with some butter naan. 🙂 I love that you’ve used the NutriPot to make this. 🙂
Nutripot certainly decreases the cooking time and this Rajma masala surely looks inviting, Veena !
Wow what a beautiful colour. Rajma masala looks lip-smackingly delicious. Loved the use of butter instead of oil. It definitely enhance the taste. Lovely share.
One of my favorite dishes! Your recipe is so simple…just like the dish is supposed to be. When traveling in Punjab, you come across so many people selling a plate of rajma-chawal on road side stalls… simple, filling, and delicious meal!
By the way, what is a Nutri-pot? Sounds like an Insta-pot… I sometimes feel I want lesser and lesser gadgets in kitchen and somehow the plain old pressure cooker works for most dishes 🙂
Only you can make even Rajma Masala look so tasty 😀 Will definitely try it soon
Veena please don’t tempt me with the nutripot recipes. You make want to buy it. As for the rajma it sounds like a breeze in the nutripot. Will love to try it.
Rajma is my all time favourite curry. Loved the Colour of your curry and the nutripot method sounds so easy. Lovely share !
Rajma masala looks very tempting with rich gravy. Would love to have it hot pulkas. At my starting stage of cooking it was a big failure as I soaked rajma for less time. Later I learned the process now it’s my fav.
This looks so good! Ive been making a few dishes on my Nutri-pot but haven’t yet tried making Rajma masala in it. Now with your recipe as a guide, I should get to it, as the weather is becoming pleasant, and perfect for a dinner of rajma chawal.
Rajma masala looks so good and making in a instant pot saves time. This is the only side dish which I relish both with rice and chapati.
WOW !!! rajma masala looks super tempting di 🙂 Use of nutripot to make the dish is a lovely idea !
Love a well made rajma..by the way what is a nutri pot..got to goooogle it out
making rajma masala is a trick, the texture has to come out perfectly. Your version in nutri pot looks perfectly done, rich and creamy
Rajma masala looks so rich and delicious. It is my husband favourite curry but I have never tried it. Thanks for explaining step by step.Will try this soon.
Veena, you are really the queen of nutripot. so glad to see so many recipes done with absolute ease. Now I have to try this too… I have a long list from your blog
Delicious looking rajma. Love the colour of the curry. I’ve tried out this curry in India with red beans bought from the shop and have failed to make them perfectly as even though I soak the beans overnight they still remain hard.
The gravy sounds simple and delicious… rajma being one of my favorite beans, I would have had that as is!
Wow, the Rajma Masala looks delish! Tempts me to dig in straight away, with some butter naan. 🙂 I love that you’ve used the NutriPot to make this. 🙂
Nutripot certainly decreases the cooking time and this Rajma masala surely looks inviting, Veena !
Wow what a beautiful colour. Rajma masala looks lip-smackingly delicious. Loved the use of butter instead of oil. It definitely enhance the taste. Lovely share.
One of my favorite dishes! Your recipe is so simple…just like the dish is supposed to be. When traveling in Punjab, you come across so many people selling a plate of rajma-chawal on road side stalls… simple, filling, and delicious meal!
By the way, what is a Nutri-pot? Sounds like an Insta-pot… I sometimes feel I want lesser and lesser gadgets in kitchen and somehow the plain old pressure cooker works for most dishes 🙂
Only you can make even Rajma Masala look so tasty 😀 Will definitely try it soon
Veena please don’t tempt me with the nutripot recipes. You make want to buy it. As for the rajma it sounds like a breeze in the nutripot. Will love to try it.
Rajma is my all time favourite curry. Loved the Colour of your curry and the nutripot method sounds so easy. Lovely share !
Rajma masala looks very tempting with rich gravy. Would love to have it hot pulkas. At my starting stage of cooking it was a big failure as I soaked rajma for less time. Later I learned the process now it’s my fav.
This looks so good! Ive been making a few dishes on my Nutri-pot but haven’t yet tried making Rajma masala in it. Now with your recipe as a guide, I should get to it, as the weather is becoming pleasant, and perfect for a dinner of rajma chawal.
Rajma masala looks so good and making in a instant pot saves time. This is the only side dish which I relish both with rice and chapati.
WOW !!! rajma masala looks super tempting di 🙂 Use of nutripot to make the dish is a lovely idea !
Love a well made rajma..by the way what is a nutri pot..got to goooogle it out
making rajma masala is a trick, the texture has to come out perfectly. Your version in nutri pot looks perfectly done, rich and creamy
Rajma masala looks so rich and delicious. It is my husband favourite curry but I have never tried it. Thanks for explaining step by step.Will try this soon.
Veena, you are really the queen of nutripot. so glad to see so many recipes done with absolute ease. Now I have to try this too… I have a long list from your blog