Lauki with Rajma (Bottle gourd with red beans)

• Servings: 4
• Soaking time: 6 hours.
• Preparation time: 10 minutes.
• Frying time: 10 minutes.
• Cooking time: 10 minutes.
• Total time: 30 minutes.

A nutritionally balanced diet is the key to get high level of immunity; paying particular attention to protein, I prepared this combination ‘Lauki with Rajma (Bottle gourd with red beans)’. It is good for your health and waistline, see how it will boost your energy and keep fit.

Ingredients:

• Lauki(Bottle gourd): 250-300 gm
• Rajma: 100 gm.
• Onion: 1 no.
• Tomato: 2 no.
• Green chilli: 2 no.
• Turmeric powder: ½ teaspoon
• Chilli powder: ½ teaspoon
• Coriander powder: 1 teaspoon
• Salt: 1 teaspoon
• Ghee (clarified butter)/cooking oil: 2 tablespoon

Preparation:

1. Soak Rajma 4-6 hours or overnight.
2. Remove the Peel of bottle gourd and chop them into squire, keep aside.
3. Chop onion and make paste. keep aside.
4.  Chop green chilli and tomatoes into small pieces, keep aside.

Method:

1. Take a pressure cooker, heat ghee, add ground onion, fry till it gets light brown in colour, add chopped tomatoes, chopped green chilli, and powder masala, stir fry for couple of minutes.
2. Add chopped lauki and Rajma stir fry on medium flame for couple of minutes, add salt and 2 cups of water (as per your requirement) put the lid on and bring full cooking pressure, lower the flame. Cook for 3-4 minutes. Put off the flame, allow it to cool.
3. Lauki with Rajma (Bottle gourd with red beans) is ready to serve, Serve hot or warm with Steamed Rice/Chapati.

Lauki with Rajma (Bottle gourd with red beans) by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.