Ingredients

• 1 cup - rajma
• 1 - coconut (shredded)
• 4 - red chillies
• 1/2 tsp - turmeric
• a little tamarind
• For the tadka:
• 8 - garlic cloves
• 4 tsp - coconut oil
• salt to taste

How to Make Bendi

• Soak the rajma for about 3 hours and pressure-cook (3 whistles).
• Grind the coconut, red chillies, tamarind and turmeric into a fine paste.
• Mix the paste into the rajma, add salt and water to prepare a gravy.
• Let the gravy boil for 2 minutes.
• Pour coconut oil in a small pan and add crushed garlic cloves. Fry until the cloves become little brown.
• Add the fried cloves to the gravy.
• Serve with rice, chappati or plain parattas