Introduction: Potato Korma Which Tastes Like Non-vegetarian Dish

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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.

Step 1: Prepare Potatoes

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

Step 2: Ingredients Required

  • 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.

Step 3: Chop and Cut

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

Step 4: Make Paste

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

Step 5: Preparation Step 1

  • 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

Step 6: Preparation Step 2

  • 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.

Step 7: Add Potatoes

  • 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