Navratan Korma is a popular restaurant dish, a delicious combination of several vegetable, nuts and fruits cooked in a creamy silky sauce. This dish is extremely flavourful and rich.
- Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a pan, when it is hot enough add whole masala spices (2 black cardamoms, 1 green cardamom, 6-7 cloves, 7-8 small pieces of cinnamon stick) and cumin seeds. Fry a bit and add curry leaves, onion paste (1 large) and stir well.
- Then add salt and cook the onion paste till it is nicely cooked and golden in colour.
- Later, even add 1 tablespoon of ginger garlic paste, 1 teaspoon chopped/ crushed green chillies and mix well.
- Then add a pinch of Hing, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, coriander powder, garam masala and 1 cup tomato puree and mix all the ingredients well.
- To it, add 2 tablespoons paste of cashew nuts and watermelon seeds alongwith little water, 1 tablespoon of yoghurt and cook this mixture till it oil oozes out then cover with a lid and cook for few minutes.
- Now, add in the fried vegetables (capsicum, potatoes, paneer, cauliflower florets, peas and carrots) which were cooked till 95% done. Cover and cook for another 3-5 minutes.
- In the same pan, even add the fruits (apple, pineapple, grapes and pomegranate seeds) and mix well. Adjust the consistency by adding little water and bring it to one boil and the korma is ready.
- Top it with little ghee (optional). Sprinkle some coriander leaves and switch off the flame.