Chicken Korma

I have been planning to cook up a chicken korma for a long time, watched several recipes on youtube, bought the ingredients and everything - but then essays got in the way.. nevertheless, after some time trying out different variations in the kitchen, here it is: a very tasty chicken korma!

I used these recipes as guidelines: Sorted Food - Skinny Chicken Korma and this one.

For 4 portions you will need

500 g of chicken breast fillets
400 ml of coconut milk
200 g of almond flakes
400 g of rice
2 onions
an about 2 cm thick piece of ginger
1 tablespoon of garlic paste
1 tablespoon of coriander (or a handful of fresh leaves)
3 tablespoons of tomato puree
2 tablespoons of yogurt
2 tablespoons of mild curry paste
1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
2 teaspoons of garam masala
1 teaspoon of turmeric
salt and pepper

oil


Start of by chopping the onions and peeling the ginger (works really well if you use a spoon for that) and chopping it finely. Sweat them off in a frying pan with a bit of oil and the garlic paste. Add the garam masala and the turmeric. Set aside to cool for a moment. In a food processor, blend together the yogurt, tomato puree, mild curry paste, coriander and the onion-garlic-ginger until it forms a smooth paste. In the mean time, cut up the chicken breasts into small pieces and start frying them in a bit of oil in a frying pan. Also start boiling the rice at this point. Once the chicken has been cooked for about 5 minutes (until you can't see any rosy bits any more), add the spicy paste and mix in well. Cook that for about 2 minutes and then add the coconut milk and let it simmer for 20 minutes. Season with salt and pepper right at the end, and if you wish, add another few tablespoons of yogurt. Mix in the almond flakes (leave a handful aside, and garnish the korma with those later on). Drain the rice and serve with the chicken korma (I also served it with carrots that I cut it up into small pieces and boiled in water for 15 minutes) and sprinkle the almond flakes on top. Enjoy this wonderfully spicy dish! :)