Red Queen Beans Curry
  1. Finely crush the ginger, garlic and deseeded green chilli in a mortar and pestle

  2. Grate the onions

  3. Purée the tomatoes

  4. Heat oil in a pot

  5. Add cumin seeds and let them splutter

  6. Add the grated onion with a pinch of salt and stir in the ginger-garlic-chilli paste. Cook slowly until light golden/brown

  7. Add red chilli powder, turmeric, coriander powder, and garam masala. Cook until the oil starts to bubble and spices bloom

  8. Pour in the tomato purée and some salt. Simmer until it deepens in colour and the oil starts separating

  9. Stir in ¼ tsp sugar to balance the acidity of the tomatoes

  10. Add the beans along with their liquid

  11. Pour in 1 cup warm water

  12. Let everything simmer gently so the beans soak up all the spicy, rich flavour

  13. Crush Kasuri Methi between your palms and stir it in towards the end

  14. Do a final salt check

  15. Serve with a generous dollop of sour cream

Course🍽️Main Course

Diets🥕Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free...

Category🍛Curry

Cuisine🇮🇳Indian

Occasions🍲Comfort Food📆Everyday

Season🔁Year-round

DifficultyEasy ⏰ 40m

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