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What is Chicken Korma Recipe?
Chicken Korma Recipe is Indian Recipe Prepared with Indian spices and ingredients using onion, tomatoes, whole spices, dry spices and with chicken.
Korma means chicken gravy, which is prepared to serve enough for 4 to 6 or more people in family.
Korma is prepared with many variations like you can prepare korma with adding water in the recipe, or adding coconut milk in the recipe, or with adding curd and water mix in the recipe.
How to make chicken korma recipe Indian style
To make chicken korma recipe Indian Style, first Gather all the below ingredients, then follow my easy to understand cooking with step wise picture help Instructions.
2 bay leaves, 2 black cardamom, 3 green cardamom pods
4 cloves, 4 black pepper, 1 cinnamon stick
Fresh coriander leaves,
Salt
4 table spoon of oil
3 cups of fresh water
1 table spoon of Garam Masala Powder
Gather all these ingredients first, so that you don’t miss any ingredient while cooking.
Now let’s start Cooking Chicken Korma recipe.
Instructions for cooking Chicken Korma Recipe with Picture Help Stepwise:
Step 1:- Marination Step:
First thing first, wash your chicken pieces perfectly with fresh water and drain the excess water.
Because we have to marinade this chicken pieces. So to do it,
In a bowl, add 1200 grams of chicken pieces
Then add half tea spoon of Salt
Next add Half Tea spoon of Turmeric Powder
Then add Half Tea Spoon of Red Chilli powder in the chicken bowl
And mix everything perfectly with your hands. And now keep this chicken pieces for Marination for at least 20 minutes.
Step 2:-
Take 5 Medium Size of Onions and Cut Them Finely into thin slices like shown in the below image.
And then take 3 fresh red Tomatoes and make a smooth puree of them, using mixer grinder.
If you don’t have mixer grinder, then you can chop tomatoes finely into very small pieces and use them in this recipe.
Step 3:- Spices:
Take a small bowl and in that, Add
1 small tea spoon of Turmeric Powder
1 Table Spoon of Red Chilli Powder
2 table spoon of Coriander Powder
Half tea spoon of Cumin Powder
Half Tea spoon of Dry Fenugreek Leaves (kasuri methi)
Lastly half tea spoon of Garam Masala Powder
Add all these spices in a small bowl and then add little little water in the bowl and mix spices and water and make a smooth paste of it.
Not too thick, not to runny paste, just like shown in the below image.
If you do like this with your spices, before adding them in the recipe, then your spices won’t get burn, and also you can get a little different taste of spices,
Just try the exact chicken korma recipe exactly I shared in this recipe.
Step 4:-
Now take a heavy bottomed pan or Karahi (wok).
And in that add 4 table spoon of Oil and heat it for few seconds.
Then add those finely chopped Onion pieces in this hot oil. And on high flame cook onions for perfectly golden brown colour.
Once the onions are turned to golden brown colour, now remove all the onions pieces from the pan and keep fried onions aside,
We will use it later.
But for now, keep onions in a separate bowl. And now let’s move to the next step.
Step 5:-
Now in the same pan, in which we have fried onions, yess in the same pan or karahi,
Add those marinated Chicken Pieces in this oil and on High Flame,
Shallow fry chicken pieces for 4 to 6 minutes on high flame.
After 5 to 6 minutes of shallow chicken fry, now transfer this fried chicken in a separate bowl.
If you fry chicken first, then raw smell of it gets remove and our chicken pieces will become softer from inside.
Step 6:-
Now in the same pan, in which we have fried onions first, then chicken,
Now in the same pan or karahi,
Add 1 cinnamon Stick (2 inch size)
Add 2 bay leaves
Add 2 black cardamom and 3 green cardamom pods
Add 4 cloves and 4 black pepper
add 1 table spoon of Cumin seeds
lastly Add 2 Table Spoon of Ginger and Garlic Paste in the oil.
On medium flame, cook all these whole spices and ginger garlic paste for 30 minutes.
NOTE: when you cook whole spices in the oil, make sure oil is not much hot,
Or else, whole spices will get burn and they will give little bitter taste in the chicken korma recipe.
Step 7:-
Now add that 3 fresh red Tomatoes paste in the pan and then add half tea spoon of salt in the tomatoes,
And now mix everything perfectly and cook tomatoes for 2 minutes on high flame.
Adding salt in the tomatoes, tomatoes will cook faster and becomes soft.
Step 8:-
Now add those fried onions in the pan, but before, make sure you crush fried onions with your bare hands.
Because doing this, gravy will become smooth and chicken korma will taste better when you eat.
After you add fried onion in the pan, mix it perfectly and continue cooking on medium flame.
Step 9:-
After 2 minute, now add that spices paste which you have made in the step 3.
Yess add that spices paste in the pan and on low flame, cook spices for 3 to 4 minutes on very low flame.
Mix perfectly in the pan and make sure your gravy is smooth, (if it is not, then mash gravy with your spoon and mix)
Step 10:-
Now add that fried chicken pieces in the pan and mix it perfectly with your Gravy.
Mix gently, or else chicken pieces will break.
Note:- now turn the gas flame to medium and cook spices and chicken.
On high flame, Gravy will Dry Fast and gravy becomes thick and spices also can burn,
So on medium to low flame only, mix chicken pieces and gravy gently and cook.
Now cover the pan and cook chicken pieces with gravy on very low flame for 4 to 5 minutes.
Step 11:-
After 4 to 5 minutes of cooking chicken on very low flame, stir in the pan and now
Add 150 Grams of Curd in the chicken and gravy and mix it perfectly
And again cover the pan with lid and continue cooking for more 5 minutes on very low flame.
Note:- when you add curd in any recipe, mix curd perfectly before using it in any recipe.
Mixed curd won’t Curdle. And when you add curd in any recipe, make sure our gas flame is in very low flame or turned off.
Because on high flame, or in hot recipe, adding curd directly, will curdle your curd and it taste bitter.
Step 12:-
Here I am adding more finely Chopped Green chillies to make this chicken korma recipe more spicy and tastier.
This is optional, you can here taste your chicken korma recipe, if you want more spicy taste,
Then add 4 chopped green chillies. If needed, if not you can skip.
But I have added here 4 finely chopped green chillies and mix it perfectly.
Step 13:-
Now the final step, here add 3 cups of warm or little hot water in the chicken gravy.
And mix it perfectly. Add water how much gravy you want.
And now again cover the pan with lid and continue cooking it for more 10 to 15 minutes on very low flame.
After cooking this for 15 minutes, now garnish your chicken korma with some fresh finely chopped coriander leaves.
And yes don’t forget to add half tea spoon of Chicken masala powder or garam masala powder at the end of this recipe and cover the pan with lid and turn off the gas flame now.
Alright guys, now your chicken korma recipe is done, cooking is done, now you can enjoy this super delicious chicken korma recipe.
But first let’s check some Pro Tips.
Pro Tips for Cooking Best Chicken Korma Recipe:
for more in depth flavours in chicken, you can marinade chicken for 2 hours also,
but yess you also have to add spices and ingredients like:
{red chilli powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, fresh ginger and garlic paste, 3 table spoon of fresh curd, some fresh finely chopped coriander leaves and mint leaves, lemon juice}
Add all these ingredients in your chicken marination and keep it for at least 2 hours,
Then grill this chicken pieces and use it later in the recipe.
This way also you can prepare your chicken marination.
So this is extra flavour tip.
In this chicken korma recipe, use fresh grated ginger and garlic paste.
If you love with skin chicken pieces or boneless chicken pieces with bones, no skin chicken pieces, then this is your optional choice, take what chicken you like the most.
Cook onions perfectly till they brown completely, don’t rush in making it brown, or else, outside part will be brown and inside part of onions will be raw, and when you use it in the gravy, then you won’t get smooth gravy, and also you can see raw onion pieces in your recipe.
So frying onions perfectly is important, so take a not while cooking onion.
For more good taste, you can use mustard oil or Desi ghee in this recipe to make it more rich flavour chicken korma recipe.
When you add curd in this recipe, make sure you have mixed curd perfectly before adding it in the recipe, and make sure your gas flame is turned off.
For richer taste like hotels, you can add cashews paste or heavy cream in this chicken korma recipe.
If you want to experiment with this chicken korma recipe, then try adding your own prepared garam masala powder.
Or you can check this best garam masala powder recipe: (garam masala powder recipe)
if you want to cook chicken korma recipe for your kids, just follow the above recipe, but don’t add whole spices and use less quantity of spices in your chicken korma recipe. Follow the exact steps and ingredients I shared above.
chicken korma recipe for 2
chicken korma recipe for 2, take 300 grams of chicken, I think this much quantity of chicken is good enough for 2.
take 3 table spoon of curd in this recipe and when preparing gravy, add only 1 cup of water and cook.
If you are spicy foodie like me, then follow the same steps and cooking instructions as I shared above in this chicken korma recipe.
chicken korma recipe with coconut milk
instead of using water in the gravy, just add coconut milk in the gravy and the cooking steps are same as above recipe given.
And you will get chicken korma recipe with coconut milk.
