Easy Chicken Korma
Chicken korma is a festive Pakistani dish. Chicken is cooked with some spices and a sauce made with fried onions and yogurt. Chicken cooked in luscious sauce is hard to resist.
Servings: 4
Calories: 414kcal
Ingredients
- 1 lbs chicken bone in
- 1/3 cup oil vegetable or light olive oil
- 1 tbsp garlic paste
- 1 tbsp ginger paste
- 1 cup water
Ingredients for yogurt sauce
- 1/2 cup yogurt full fat
- 1/2 cup fried onions see note 1
Whole spices
- 1 black cardamom
- 2 green cardamom
- 1 inch cinnamon stick
- 4-5 cloves
- 4-5 whole black pepper
Other Spices
- 3/4 tsp salt or to taste
- 3/4 tsp red chili powder
- 1 tsp Kashmiri chili powder its for color only
- 1 tbsp coriander powder
- 1 tsp cumin powder
- 1/2 tsp garam masala
- 1/2 tsp black pepper powder
Instructions
Make Yogurt Sauce
- Take half a cup of fried onions and half a cup of yogurt. Add them into the blender and blend them until well combined. It takes less than a minute.
- Add a little bit of water if needed.
Braise your Chicken
- Heat oil in a pan, add all of the whole spices, and cook for one minute.
- Now add chicken pieces. Let the chicken brown from one side before changing to the other side. Keep the heat on medium-high.
- Now turn it over to sear the other side.
- Once the chicken is light golden brown, add ginger and garlic paste. Mix everything.
- Add salt, red chili powder, Kashmiri chili powder, cumin, and coriander powder.
- Cook the chicken with the spices for 3-4 minutes.
Mix yogurt sauce
- Now add the blended yogurt sauce. Mix it well, cover, and cook for 5-6 minutes.
- Once the oil leaves the masala, add water.
- Cover and cook for another 7-8 minutes.
- Add peeled almonds (optional), garam masala, and black pepper powder.
- Mix and enjoy.
Video
Notes
- I used store-bought onions, but you can also make fried onions at home.
Nutrition
Calories: 414kcal | Carbohydrates: 8g | Protein: 18g | Fat: 34g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 8g | Monounsaturated Fat: 17g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 59mg | Sodium: 571mg | Potassium: 264mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 476IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 72mg | Iron: 2mg