Education Recipe For Better Life: One Pot Lobia Masala /Black eye Beans Curry

Starting the week with another edition of Blogging Marathon with One pot dishes as theme.One pot dishes save the cooking time and n number of dishes such as biriyani,pulaos,curry and desserts can be made.
Coming to today's recipe its an one pot curry made in pressure cooker with no time.The method of this curry is more or less similar to the one pot channa masala,except some variations.I always stock up my freezer with the soaked legumes.So making this curry hardly takes 20-25 minutes.Try this yummy curry and serve it with both rice and roti.

One Pot Lobia Masala/Black eye Bean Curry

Basic Information

Preparation time 10 minutes
Soaking time 3-4 hours
Cooking time 25 minutes

Serves 4(generously)

Ingredients

Ingredient	Quantity
Black eye beans/lobia	3/4 cup
Onion( finely chopped)	2 medium size
Ginger&garlic (crushed)	2 tsp
Tomato (pureed)	2 (medium size)
Turmeric powder/manjal podi	1/4 tsp
Red chilly powder/milagai podi	1 tsp
Coriander powder/dhaniya podi	2 tsp
Garam masala powder	1/4 tsp
Cumin seeds/jeeragam	1/4 tsp
Salt	1.5 tsp
Coriander leaves(finely chopped)	1 tbs
Dried fenugreek leaves/ Kasoori meti leaves	1 tsp
Oil	3-4 tbs

Method

Soak the black eye beans/lobia overnight or minimum of 3-4hours.Also puree the tomato and keep it aside.

Heat the oil in a pressure cooker or pan and crackle the cumin seeds.Add in the onion and green chillies,saute until transparent.Add the crushed ginger and garlic,fry it for couple of minutes.Now add the tomato puree and cook it for 2-3 minutes.

Add in the spice powders except garam masala powder and mix it well.Now in the soaked black eye beans/lobia and give it a mix.So that the spices can coat very well.

Add around 2 cups of water and cover the pressure cooker with lid.Let it cook for for 2-3 whistles in a medium flame and put off the flame.Once the pressure subsides,remove the lid and turn on the flame.Take around 2 tbs of cooked lobia/black eye beans and grind it well.

Add it to the mixture and let it cook for couple of minutes and put off the flame.Add in the chopped coriander leaves,kasoori methi leaves and garam masala powder,mix it well.