North Indian
Lobia Masala (Black-Eyed Beans in Onion Tomato Gravy)
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Lobia Masala (Black-Eyed Beans in Onion Tomato Gravy) is North Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the protein alongside. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Soak the lobia 4 to 6 hours, or overnight if you are cooking it for lunch, then drain it.
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Pressure cook it with the water and half the salt for 2 to 3 whistles, about 12 minutes. Lobia cooks far faster than rajma or chana and turns to mush if left, so release the pressure as soon as the time is up.
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Heat the oil in a pot, let the cumin seeds sizzle and cook the finely chopped onions 8 minutes until golden brown.
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Add the ginger garlic paste and slit green chilies for 1 minute, then the chopped tomatoes, turmeric, coriander powder, red chili powder and the rest of the salt, and cook 6 to 8 minutes until the oil separates.
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Add the lobia with its cooking water and simmer 10 minutes until the gravy thickens a little. Finish with garam masala and cilantro and eat it with rice or roti.
Serve it with
A North Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Lobia Masala (Black-Eyed Beans in Onion Tomato Gravy), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Lobia Masala (Black-Eyed Beans in Onion Tomato Gravy) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 280 kcal
- Protein
- 11 g
- Carbs
- 34 g
- Fat
- 11 g
- Fiber
- 7 g
- Sugar
- 7 g
- Sodium
- 590 mg
- Saturated fat
- 2 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Lobia Masala (Black-Eyed Beans in Onion Tomato Gravy) takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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