Instant Pot Rajma Chawal
Instant Pot Rajma Chawal

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, instant pot rajma chawal. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Rajma Chawal (Red Beans with Rice) used to be a favorite meal for me. Being a Punjabi, I was fortunate that my mom used to make melt-in-the-mouth rajma chawal almost every week when we were growing up. So here we will make authentic Punjabi Rajma Masala.

Instant Pot Rajma Chawal is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Instant Pot Rajma Chawal is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook instant pot rajma chawal using 24 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Instant Pot Rajma Chawal:
  1. Make ready 1 cup Rajma/Red Kidney Beans
  2. Prepare 5 cups Water (For Soaking the Beans)
  3. Take 3 1/2-4 cups Water or Rajma Stock (For Gravy)
  4. Make ready 1 Large Tomato (Pureed)
  5. Take 1 tsp Tomato Paste (Diluted with Water)
  6. Prepare 1/2 tsp Cumin Seeds
  7. Get 3 Green Chillies (Cut into Half)
  8. Prepare 3 Dried Whole Red Kashmiri Chillies
  9. Prepare 1 Bay Leaf (Halved)
  10. Get 1/2 tsp Asafoetida
  11. Make ready 1/4 cup Oil
  12. Make ready 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder
  13. Take 1 tsp Cumin Powder
  14. Get 1 tsp Coriander Powder
  15. Take 1 1/2 tsp Kashmiri Red Chilli Powder
  16. Prepare 1 tsp Red Chilli Powder
  17. Take 1 tsp Garam Masala Powder
  18. Prepare 1 tsp Kasuri Methi Powder
  19. Get 2 tbsp Ginger Garlic Paste
  20. Make ready Salt (As required)
  21. Make ready For the Steamed Rice:
  22. Prepare 1 cup Basmati Rice
  23. Get 1 1/4 cup Water
  24. Get 1 tsp Ghee

It lends a gorgeous color to the gravy & has all the nutrients of the boiled kidney beans. Cook the rajma well until soft, melt in the mouth stage. Rajma Chawal doesn't taste good with firm. Rajma chawal is also a popular comfort food in Orrisa.

Steps to make Instant Pot Rajma Chawal:
  1. Wash the Rajma/Red Kidney Beans well under running tap water and soak them in enough water for about 8 hours or overnight.
  2. Switch on the Instant Pot. Add the soaked Rajma alongwith water into the pot. Place a heat resistance stand and place a steel container on the stand. Add the rice, water and ghee in the container. Close the Instant Pot lid. Set the valve to Sealing. Press the Pressure Cook button and set it to High. Set the time for 7 minutes. After 7 minutes when the Instant Pot starts to beep. Do Not do a quick pressure release. Wait for 10 minutes and then release the rest of the pressure.
  3. Open the lid and check the rice. The rice will be nice, soft, fluffy and well cooked.
  4. Take out the stand and the rice container carefully and set aside. At this stage, the red kidney beans will be semi-done. Strain the beans and store the water, to be used later to make gravy.
  5. Press the saute button of your IP and set it on High. When the Instant Pot displays Hot, add oil.
  6. When the oil becomes hot, add cumin seeds, bay leaves, the chillies and asafoetida and allow them to sizzle for a few seconds. Add ginger-garlic paste and saute well until the raw smell leaves.
  7. Now add the tomato puree and salt and mix well.
  8. Add all the powdered spices and saute well until oil oozes out. Add the diluted tomato puree.
  9. Add the semi-done Rajma and saute well. Add the stored rajma boiled water. Mix well. The entire sauteing was done in 10 minutes.
  10. Press the Cancel Button. Put the lid on the Instant Pot and lock it. Set the valve to Sealing. Press the Pressure Cook button and set it to High. Set the time for 10 minutes.
  11. After 10 minutes, when the Instant Pot beeps, Do Not do a quick pressure release. Allow it to release naturally.
  12. Open the lid and adjust the consistency of the gravy. If you prefer thicker gravy, press Saute and set the time for 3 more minutes. And if you prefer a thinner gravy, add little more water and Saute again.
  13. Rajma Chawal is ready to relish with mango pickle.
  14. Also added rajma and chawal together in a pan and did a stir fry and made an egg fry as a side dish. It tasted even batter.

Ingredients to make Instant Pot Rajma masala, Indian Curry Masala Paste - This is a prepared curry base I am using in this recipe. You can check the recipe here. If you don't have this paste ready then grind tomato, onion and garlic into a smooth paste.. Instant pot rajma masala is red kidney beans cooked in a thick onion-tomato gravy. Ladled over white or brown rice, it makes for a complete meal and a very popular North Indian dish called rajma chawal.

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