Navratana Korma

This is an Indian vegetable korma with nuts, fruits and an adjustable list of vegetables. It is in a tomato-cream sauce and yogurt based sauce. ‘Navratan’ means ‘nine gems,’ so choose nine of the vegetable, nuts, and paneer ingredients; you can leave out the elements you don’t want to use, or add them all so it is ‘ten gems’ if you wish.

It provides sodium, potassium, saturated fat, carbohydrates, fibre, proteins, calcium, iron and magnesium.

Ingredients of Navratana Korma

2 cups peas boiled

1 large carrot chopped and boiled

1/2 cup tomato sauce

1/4 cup curd

1/4 cup malai(cream)

3 tbsp. butter

1 small sweet lime

1 small apple

1 banana

2 slices pineapple

10-15 cashewnuts

20 raisins

2 glaced cherries for decoration

1 tbsp. coriander chopped

1 tbsp. ghee

salt to taste

Dry Masala:

1 tsp. cuminseeds

2 tsp. khuskhus (poppyseeds)

1 tsp. cardamoms

Wet Masala:

1 large onion

1/4 cup coconut shredded

3 green chillies

Method Of Navratan Korma

Grind the dry and wet masalas separately.

Chop all the fruit fine. Heat ghee and fry cashews, drain and keep aside.

Add butter to ghee and heat, add the wet masala and fry for 2 minutes.

Add the dry masala and salt and fry 2 more minutes.

Add the carrots and peas, mix together curd and cream and add to gravy.

Allow to thicken a bit, add fruit, cashews and raisins and boil till the gravy is thick and the fat separates.

Garnish with grated cheese ,coriander and chopped cherries.

Serve hot with naan, roti or paratha.