This is a weekend crockpot recipe, the kind where you want to have something ready to go after you get done running errands in the afternoon and in time for, say, "The Durrells in Corfu" to be back on PBS(!) on Sunday night.
Chicken Korma
Adapted from "Martha Stewart’s Slow Cooker"
Note: If you don’t want to have to spring for nut butters
that you might not use again, you can just whir the nuts in a food processor
until they eventually turn into a paste. Just keep in mind that it will take more nuts to yield the called for amount of butter. But this recipe might make you decide
you need more nut butters.
Ingredients
2 tablespoons butter
2 large onions, thinly sliced
6 cardamom pods
1 tablespoons garam masala
¾ teaspoon turmeric
½ teaspoon cayenne powder
3 pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs
¼ cup cashew butter
¼ cup almond butter
½ plain yogurt
½ cup heavy cream
1 tablespoon tomato paste
2 tablepoons grated fresh ginger
2 garlic cloves, chopped
1½ tablespoon sugar
2 teaspoons coarse salt
Chopped cilantro for garnish
Method
Melt butter in a large skillet. Cook onions over medium heat
until golden. Add cardamom pods, garam masala, turmeric and cayenne powder and
cook for 2 minutes. Remove pan from heat.
Chop chicken into 2-inch pieces. Add to pan.
In a food processor or blender, combine nut butters, yogurt,
cream, tomato paste, ginger, garlic, sugar and salt until smooth. Pour mixture
into skillet.
Combine mixture well and turn into a slow cooker. The
original recipe called for cooking this on high for 3½ hours or on low for 7
hours. Since I was running a tad behind,
I wound up cooking it on high for 30 minutes, then for nearly 6½ hours on low,
and it turned out fine.
Serve over rice. Garnish with cilantro. Makes quite a bit,
easily 6 servings.
Rating: Pretty nice.It's got more gentle warmth than heat, and a nice mix of flavors. Makes good use of a cheap cut of chicken; it's tender rather than being either mushy or rubbery, a fate that can sometimes befall chicken in a slow cooker. That blender nut sauce mixture could certainly have other uses as well.
