Ready to devour of White chicken korma, rich variation of traditional red korma? The korma is rich aromatic and full of creamy flavors of spiced yogurt sauce.
Updated: 6 March 2021
Hey there! Did you know many people get confused between white korma, white karahi, and white handi? Some people think all are the same and they end up mixing ingredients. Although ingredients are similar they have different aromas and appearances. All karahi, korma, or handi can be made with chicken, beef, mutton, or lamb.
What is White Chicken Korma?
Like traditional korma,( also called kurma and qorma) which has fried golden onion, a variety of garam masala, and yogurt. The white korma has onion paste, a variety of garam masala and almond paste, poppy, or cashew paste. It is highly aromatic.
What is White Karahi?
Karahi literally means wok in Urdu. When meat is cooked in karahi with yogurt and cream, lots of ginger and jalapeno pepper are used . The result is a yummy light karahi.
What is White Handi?
This is another creamy delicacy. Handi is a clay pot or terra-cotta pot. When boneless meat is cooked in a handi with green chili, pepper, and roasted cumin, and coriander, the result is a handi. Sometimes, coconut milk is also added.
How to make White chicken korma with almonds?
Prep steps:
Make a paste of ginger, garlic, green chili and onions. Set aside. (Paste 1)
Next made a paste of almonds. Use some milk if required.(If you don't like the gritty texture of coconut, you can add coconut milk or coconut cream instead for a creamy texture.) Paste 2
In oil fry whole spices first then powdered spices.
Immediately, add onion paste 1 so spices do not burn and lose its flavors.
For for 2-3 minutes until oil separates.
Fry chicken in white korma masala until color changes. (5 minutes.)
Now, mix in yogurt and almond coconut paste 2. Mix well. Add ¼ cup water and chicken will cook in natural water of yogurt.
Cover and cook until chicken is tender for 10-15 minutes. Add cream when chicken is cooked but it is optional. Add garam masala powder, black pepper powder, and almonds halves. Simmer on low flame until oil separates. White badami chicken korma is ready to serve. Garnish with fried onions.
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White Chicken Korma Recipe Pakistani
Ingredients
- ½ kg chicken
Paste 1
- 1 tablespoon ginger paste or 1 inch ginger piece, (adrak)
- 1 tablespoon garlic paste or 3 cloves, (lahsun)
- 1 tablespoon green chilli paste or 3-4 whole, (choti hari mirch)
- 150 gm or 1 medium onion, , cut in chunks
Paste 2
- ¼ cup de silver almond, (badaam bagair chilkay), few more for garnish
- ¼ cup desiccated coconut, (sookha khopra) or 2 tablespoon coconut milk powder or 1 tablespoon coconut cream
Spices
- 6 black pepper, (kali mirch)
- 4 clove, (laung)
- 4 green cardamom, ,crushed (choti elaichi)
- 1 black cardamom, (bari elaichi)
- 1 inch cinnamon, dal cheeni
- 4 round red chili, (gol lal mirch)
- 1 teaspoon cumin, ,roasted and crushed (kuta zeera)
- 1 teaspoon coriander powder, (sukha dhanya)
Other
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 150 gm or 1 medium onion, , sliced
- ½ cup greek yogurt or 250 gm yogurt, (dahi)
- ½ cup water or more
- ¼ cup cream, , optional
- ¼ teaspoon Garam Masala Powder, (garam masala)
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
Instructions
Prep Steps
Make Paste 1
- Make a fine paste green chilies, ginger garlic and 1 onion. Set aside.
Make Paste 2
- Dry roast almonds and let it cool for a minute. Grind almonds and coconut into a fine paste. Add some milk if required to form a paste. Set aside
Make Korma
- Fry sliced onions in oil until golden brown and set aside for garnish.
- In same onion oil, fry black pepper, clove, green and black cardamom, round red chili in oil for 30 seconds.
- Add cumin and coriander powder, stir and add paste 1 immediately. Fry until color changes and oil separates. (3 minutes)
- Add chicken and fry with constant stirring until color of chicken changes from pink to brown.(5 minutes)
- Add almond and coconut paste 2, yogurt and salt. Cover and cook for 15 minutes on medium flame.
- Next add cream, black pepper powder and all spice powder, stir well. Add ½ cup water for gravy. Cover and cook on medium low flame until oil separates.
- Garnish with fried onions and almond slices. Delicious white korma is ready to serve.
Sabia says
What if chicken doesn’t turn out as spicy as I want so can I add whole slited green chilies at last stage and cook for a while ?
Recipe 52 says
Hi Sabia, adding slitted or sliced green can help. You can also add white pepper.
Val says
Very simple, well explained and delicious recipe. Tried and tested. Thank you Mariam
Recipe 52 says
Thanks a lot for the feedback, I'm glad you find my recipe helpful.
Sumith says
Brilliant post!!
Mariam Sodawater says
Thanks Summit ?