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Kurma, a thick gravy made with vegetables in a creamy coconut-nut based sauce. In South we refer as “Kurma” NorthIndians call it as “Korma”. Kurma is usually served with Roti/Naan or other Indian Flat Breads. We generally use mixed vegetables to enrich the kurma. But we can also use one single vegetable, in this case we use Potato to make kurma. Cubed potatoes are cooked in onion-tomato gravy and enriched with coconut-nut paste. This Potato Kurma is a delectable side dish for Roti/Naan or any Indian Flat Breads!

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Tips for making Potato Kurma:

For the coconut paste, I also add poppy seeds. Poppy seeds gives a nice nutty flavor. But if you can't use poppy seeds, you can exclude it and increase the quantity of coconut and roasted gram dal. We can also alternate poppyseeds with cashews
Always while sautéing onions, we can add a pinch of salt which will bring out the moisture in the onions and help them to cook evenly and quickly. Also there will be less consumption of oil if we add salt
We can add cooked potatoes and mix with the prepared gravy. But pressure cooking cubed potatoes along with the masala makes the masala gets incorporated nicely with cooked potatoes
We can also add kasoori methi leaves while garnishing

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Instructions with step by step Pictures:

Take the grinding ingredients in the mixer and grind it to a smooth paste and set it aside. Heat oil in a pan, add baby leaf, cinnamon stick, cloves and saute it for couple of seconds. Then add cumin seeds and allow it to crackle

Add chopped green chilli and finely chopped onions and saute them till the onions are nicely sauted and becomes golden brown. Then, we add chopped tomatoes and saute the tomatoes till they are mushy

When the tomatoes are nicely mushy, add the ground masala paste and saute the masala paste for 2-3 minutes.

Then, add the chopped potatoes along with turmeric powder, salt, red chilli powder and coriander powder and mix well. Then add green peas and give everything a good mix

Take everything in a vessel and add 1 cup of water and keep the vessel inside the pressure cooker and pressure cook it allowing it for 2-3 whistles. After the pressure is fully released, take out the vessel, give the kurma is a good mix and then finally garnish with chopped coriander leaves