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This instructable is based on instructions from Premila Lal's book, The Complete Book of Indian Cooking. It's great, and cheap (like $15 for hundreds of recipes), so if you think this looks like an easy and good recipe, buy it!
The actual recipe shown here is modified slightly from the original to make it easier to cook using ingredients found in stores in the US. Additionally, it is adapted from the recipe for chicken korma found in Premila Lal's book, substituting lamb for chicken. The biggest substitutions are:
3 tbsp ghee -> 3 tbsp butter (close enough)
6 green chiles -> 4 red chiles (easier to find in the US)
The actual recipe shown here is modified slightly from the original to make it easier to cook using ingredients found in stores in the US. Additionally, it is adapted from the recipe for chicken korma found in Premila Lal's book, substituting lamb for chicken. The biggest substitutions are:
3 tbsp ghee -> 3 tbsp butter (close enough)
6 green chiles -> 4 red chiles (easier to find in the US)
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Signing UpStep 1Step One - Prepare Onion Paste with Spices
The first step is to prepare an onion puree base that will also contain ground spices.
Here I'll demonstrate the way that you peel onions in a commercial kitchen as well -- you can peel an onion in 12 seconds! Maybe I'll make a separate short instructable just for that later!
Peeling an Onion in 12 seconds
1. Cut the tips of the onion off on each side(i.e. where the stems are).
2. Cut the onion in half, using the now flat tips to lay the onion flat.
3. Now the peel is totally unattached from the onion, and can be easily peeled with almost no effort.
Chop Onions into a spice puree'
1. Peel two onions. Chop into small chunks, and throw into a food processor in batches.
2. For one of the batches, add:
Here I'll demonstrate the way that you peel onions in a commercial kitchen as well -- you can peel an onion in 12 seconds! Maybe I'll make a separate short instructable just for that later!
Peeling an Onion in 12 seconds
1. Cut the tips of the onion off on each side(i.e. where the stems are).
2. Cut the onion in half, using the now flat tips to lay the onion flat.
3. Now the peel is totally unattached from the onion, and can be easily peeled with almost no effort.
Chop Onions into a spice puree'
1. Peel two onions. Chop into small chunks, and throw into a food processor in batches.
2. For one of the batches, add:
- 4 red chiles (dried or fresh)
- Ginger equivalent to about 1" of fresh ginger (1-2 tbsp of powder)
- Garlic equivalent to about 1 pod of fresh garlic (1 tbsp of powder)
- 1 tbsp poppy seeds
- 3/4 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tbsp coriander leaves (or powder)
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This is my sort of thing, super.
L