Rajma

Another rajma recipe
Ingredients:

• 1 cup Rajma/Red Kidney Beans (soaked overnight/8 hours)
• ½ cup finely chopped onions
• 1 teaspoon chopped ginger
• 1 cup chopped tomatoes
• 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
• 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
• 1 teaspoon cumin powder
• 1 teaspoon garam masala powder
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 2 tablespoons chopped coriander leaves
• 1 teaspoon Vegetable/Sunflower Oil
• Salt to taste

Process:
See Cooking Lentils and Legumes/Beans for cooking Rajma.
Heat oil to a sauce pan, add chopped ginger and onions. Sauté until onions are soft and golden brown.
Add chopped tomatoes, turmeric powder, cumin powder, garam masala powder and sauté until tomatoes become soft.
Add the cooked rajma , salt, 1 cup water and butter and simmer for 30 minutes. The longer you simmer the more the spices get into the rajma and the tastier it gets. You can alter the consistency of the gravy by adding more water.

Carrot salad

This salad is served almost daily at my grandparents place. Somehow it tastes far better there than when I make it!

Ingredients:

• 4 large carrots: Grated thick
  
• 1/2 lime

Dry Ingredients:

• 1 full red chilli
• 1/2 spoon mustard seeds
• Few Fenugreek seeds
• A pinch of asofetida
• Few curry leaves

Process:

• Add some oil
• When the oil is hot add all the dry ingredients
• When the mustard seeds start sputtering, take off the heat and add it to the grated carrots
• Add salt and lime and you're ready to consume!
  

Aloo Bhindi

Ingredients:

• 20 small okra
• 2 potatoes
• 1 spoon cumin seeds
• Masala: 1 spoon dhania powder, 1/2 spoon chilli powder, 1/4 spoon amchur (mango powder)

Process:
NOTE: Since okra tends to become slimy, I cooked the potatoes and the okra separately initially and then put it all together.

• Wash the okra before cutting. Cut the ends off both sides of each okra
• Cut the potatoes into thin, long pieces (about the same size as the okra)
• Add oil in two separate pans. Add cumin seeds in each
• Once the cumin seeds start sputtering add the okra in one pan and the potato in another
• Salt both veggies
• When the okra and potatoes are about 3/4 cooked, transfer all of them into the same pan
• In the now empty pan add a little oil and all the masala powders
• Now add all the veggies back in and stir it all together
• Close and cook (stirring occasionally) until it's all cooked