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Kidney beans is a very tasty dish and favourite of many. You can also cook in multiple variations. Kidney beans and turnip is a very good combination and turnip enhances its taste even better. Learn to cook kidney beans and turnip here.
How to make Rajma Shalgam (Kidney Beans and turnip):
Objective: Learn how to cook Kidney beans and Turnip.
Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Cooking Time: 20-25 minutes
Total time: 30 minutes
Servings: 8-10
Cuisine: Indian (Kashmiri)
Recipe for Rajma Shalgam – Kidney beans and Turnip:
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Rajma (Kidney Beans) and Shalgam (Turnip) is most loved Kashmiri dish cooked in a traditional Kashmiri way. Enjoy the full recipe here.
Ingredients:
Recipe Specific Ingredients:
Kidney beans: 250 Gms
Turnip : 750 Liters
Onions: 2 medium sized
Tomatoes: 2 medium sized
Spices:
Asafoetida: 1 pinch
Cumin Seeds: 1 tea spoon
Turmeric Powder: 1/2 tsp
Ginger Powder: 1 tsp
Fennel Powder: 2 tea spoons
Coriander Powder: 1/2 tsp (Optional)
Pepper Corn: 1 tsp
Big Cardamom: 3-4 Pieces
Cinnamon: 1 piece of 1 inch length
Image showing Chopped Turnips 
Image showing soaked kidney beans
How to do the basic Preparation:
Wash the kidney beans and soak them in water for 7-8 hours (Overnight)
Peel the turnips and cut into pieces.
Chop the onions and prepare the tomato puree
Grind 1 tsp of whole pepper corns, 1 stick of cinnamon and 3 big cardamoms to a coarse powder.
How to make the final dish:
Add the soaked kidney beans in a cooker and cover the lid. Add 2 glasses of water and turn the flame on. Now heat it till you get the whistle and then cook for 15 minutes to get thick gravy.
Heat two spoons of oil in a pan. Add little asafoetida, 1 tsp cumin and saute it.
Add chopped onions to the pan. Mix it and also add the chopped turnips to it. Fry till onions turn brown along with turnips.
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Add t it 1 tsp of salt, 1/2 tsp turmeric, 2 tsp fennel powder, 1 tsp red chilly powder and mix it well.
Add 1/2 glass of water so that our spices don’t get burnt.
Mix all the ingredients well. Turn the flame off
Add the turnips to kidney beans in the pressure cooker.
Now add the grinded spices and mix it well.
Cover the lid and cook for 5 minutes or you get thick gravy with smooth consistency. Adjust the water accordingly.
When you gt thick gravy and turnips are tender it is done.
Garnish with green coriander leaves, and serve it hot.
It goes very well with rice.
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