Potato Korma Which Tastes Like Non-vegetarian Dish

A very tasty stew made with potatoes, which smells and tastes like a non-vegetarian dish. We call this stew as Korma in our language. Please read on to see how to make this stew.

• Take about 500 grams of potatoes and peel the skin
• Cut the potatoes into cubes of about 3/4th inch size

• Five Green chilies
• One teaspoon of Cumin seeds
• One teaspoon of Fenugreek seeds
• One teaspoon of Poppy seeds
• Two medium sized onions
• Half a coconut
• One inch long piece of Ginger
• Five large garlic cloves
• Handful of Mint leaves
• Handful of Coriander leaves
• Handful of Curry leaves
• Five medium sized tomatoes
• Salt to taste
• One tablespoon of cooking oil

Spice Powders

• Two teaspoons of Coriander powder
• One teaspoon red chili powder
• One teaspoon Garam masala powder
• Half a teaspoon of Turmeric powder
• One teaspoon of roughly ground all spices containing Cardamom, Cinnamon, Cloves, Bay leaf and Star Anise.

• Remove the coconut from shell and cut into small pieces
• Chop the onions
• Cut the tomatoes into pieces

In a mixer / grinder make pastes of following ingredients

• Make Ginger and Garlic paste
• Coconut, green chilies, poppy seeds, Cumin seeds and Fenugreek seeds all mixed together into paste
• Make tomato puree
• Lightly grind the onions

• Heat a tablespoon of cooking oil in a pan
• Add the all spices containing Cardamom, Cinnamon, Cloves, Bay leaf and Star Anise to the heated oil
• Add ginger garlic paste and mix well
• Add roughly ground onions
• Add mint leaves, coriander leaves and curry leaves
• Add tomato puree

Cook all these ingredients in oil till raw smell disappears

• Add the Coriander powder, Red chili powder, Garam masala powder and Turmeric powder to the cooked ingredients in the pan and mix well
• Now add the paste made with coconut and other spices to the pan and cook for about five minutes.

• Now add the potato cubes and salt to the mixture in the pan.
• And about one cup of water to the mix.
• Cover the pan and cook till the potato cubes become tender and absorb all flavor from the spices
• Now you can see that the stew has thickened with properly cooked potato cubes in it.
• Transfer to a serving dish and garnish with chopped coriander leaves.

This dish tastes like a non-vegetarian stew and can be eaten with Rice, Parotas, Chapatis, Bread and Poori