I cooked today because its Friday and I had enough time for it. I cooked Rajma Chawal - Indian staple food, all the Indians love it and can go for it no matter what the time, mood or place is.

Rajma is Kidney Beans

Chawal is white rice

Let's cook the white rice first

For this you need:

White plain Rice
Cloves
Cardamom
Water
Big utensil which can work for boiling

Now since are Chawal\rice are cooked and ready, lets work on the beans.

Now let's cook the kidney beans

For this you need:

Kidney Beans
Tomato
Basic Indian Spices - Salt, Pepper powder, Turmeric, Coriander powder
Cumin seeds
Pressure Cooker

Pressure cooker is a favourite THING for Indian, essential too. Believe this - Somebody gifted my sister-in-law a pressure cooker in her wedding haha. I found it really funny.

First of all you take kidney beans. Now you have two options - Either directly cook them in a pressure cooker OR first soak them overnight in water and then cook them in any utensil you want.
So here I am going to cook in pressure cooker style.
First you put kidney beans with double amount of water in a pressure cooker and give the cooker 2-3 whistles as per the heat.

Then you chop some tomatoes. Although its entirely your choice if you want to put more vegetables in it, but this is not how its done. It has to be only tomato for that Staple taste.

This below is a basic Indian spice box - You will see this in every indian household.

Now you first take cooking oil and cumin seeds. Let the cumin seeds cook.

Now put chopped tomatoes in it:

Then add spices as per your taste and mix it all well, let it cook for a while.

Now you have your two elements - boiled kidney beans with its brown water & the tomato puree of Indian spices.

Mix both the elements in pressure and give it a whistle. This would help all the spices fuse well into the kidney beans. Then it will e ready.

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