Shahi Korma

Shahi Korma

Ingredients

Mutton ½ kg
Onion (payaz) grated 1 cup
Garlic (lahsan) 1 tea spoon
Ginger (adrakh) 1 tea spoon
Bay leaves (tej pata) 2
Cinnamon (dalchini) 1” piece
Red chilli (lal mirch) powder 1 tea spoon
Lemon juice (nimboo ka ras) 2 table spoon
Hot spices (garam masala) ½ tea spoon
Coriander (dhaniya) powder 1 tea spoon
Salt (namak) to taste
Clarified butter (ghee) 4 table spoon
Almonds (badam) 5-6
Cashew nuts (kaju) 5-6
Green cardamom (chhoti elaichi) 5-6
Milk (doodh) 1 cup
Water ½ cup

Instructions

  1. Wash and cut mutton into medium pieces.
  2. Now take 1.5 cup of water in a pan add lemon juice, bay leaves, and cinnamon and boil mutton pieces for 30 minutes.
  3. Remove the mutton pieces and keep water aside.
  4. Grind green cardamoms and coriander into smooth paste and keep aside.
  5. Make a smooth paste of almonds and cashew nuts and set aside.
  6. Now heat oil in a pan, add garlic and ginger and stir it.
  7. Add onion and fry it till it becomes pink in colour.
  8. Now add mutton pieces and cook it for 8-10 minutes.
  9. Then add cardamom- coriander paste, red chilli powder and hot spices and stir it.
  10. Now add the water in which mutton has been boiled and boil the meat in pressure cooker.
  11. Once mutton becomes soft, then add milk and stir it continuously till the gravy becomes thick.
  12. Now add salt and almond- cashew nut paste and let it cook on low flame for 8-10 minutes more.
  13. Remove it from flame and serve Shahi Korma with Roti or Nan.

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