Friday, October 24, 2008

Ra..Ra...Rajma!




"Ra..Ra...Sarasuku Ra..Rajma". Remember the song in Rajini's movie. How colorful and stylish it is, the same way I thought to make it .Yes, its Friday night.Well, Its Rajma day. It gives me so much pleasure when I write it, how yummy will it be when I make it? That too, if it is simple and easier than the usual stuff. Not the usual frying of onions,tomatoes and grinding it to paste. This one is much more simple and quick to make it.

My husband's mami has come from China, so her taste of cooking is little bit differnt than our usual cooking. Not only that, she is pakka north indian women:) yeah, they make real ,authentic traditional curries. Well, to make it simple, this was the idea just grabbed from her.Very simple and quicker too.

Ingredients:

Cinnamon - small stick
Onion -1/2 cup
Ginger- garlic paste - 1 tsp
Hunt's tomato paste - a small one ( you get it in store for just $.75)
Dry Roasted Cumin and Coriander - 1 tsp
cooked Rajma - 1.5 cup
Chilli powder - 1 spn
Channa masala - 1 spn
Garam masala - a pinch
Coriander leaves for garnishing.
Salt & Oil



Method:

Before starting, grind Onions,Cinnamon,Ginger-garlic and make it a paste.

1) In a kadai with oil, pour the paste and fry till the raw smells goes.
2) Add the Hunt's tomato paste and the dry roasted cumin and coriander powder and Chilli powder.
3) Let it fry for some more minutes and add the Rajma with Channa masala.
Fry till all those raw tomatoes smell goes away leaving the fragrant of rajma and her spices.
4) Atlast add garam masala and coriander leaves.

Ta..Da. Rajma is done. I know, it is the easiest and simplest way to eat!!!

Enjoy the dish!

3 comments:

Mahimaa's kitchen said...

hey, thanks for visiting my blog.. ur rajma looks so colorful! lovely blog u have.. nice recipes.

TestingSalesforce said...

thank u:)

Chitra said...

Hi anu,
thanks for visiting my blog.U had asked for making idly with black gram.We dont use it directly for making idly batter.but we soak the black gram for 2 hrs and wash the skin completely and then grind it.we get soft idlies like when we use urad dal ( white)Thanks again for visiting my blog and dropped a question:)