Kaju Curry
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It is not only heavy and rich. It taste really awesome
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Ingredients
- For roasting cashews:
- 1 teaspoon butter
- 1 cup Cashew nuts broken or whole
- For onion paste:
- 2 teaspoon Oil
- 1 large or 1 1/2 cups Onion chopped roughly
- 1/2 inch Ginger chopped roughly
- 2 small Green chilies chopped roughly
- For kaju curry
- 3 medium Tomato pureed
- 1 tablespoon Oil
- 2 tablespoon Butter
- 1 Bay leaf 4 Cloves
- 1 inch Cinnamon stick
- Salt
- 1/4 teaspoon Turmeric Powder
- 3 teaspoon Coriander powder
- 1 teaspoon Red chili powder
- 1 1/2 Kasoori methi
- 1/4 cup Heavy whipping cream or fresh cream or malai
- 1/4 cup Cilantro or coriander leaves chopped finely
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Instructions
- Roasting cashews: Heat 1 teaspoon of butter in a pan and roast the cashews in it.
- Roast them with string continuously till it becomes nice golden brown. remove it to a plate and keep aside.
- Making onion paste: In the same pan, heat another 1 teaspoon of oil on medium heat. Once hot add chopped onion, ginger and green chilies.
- Saute them till onion becomes translucent and let it cool down a bit.
- Once it gets cooled, grind into smooth paste. Also make smooth puree of tomato.
- Making kaju curry Now the same pan, heat remaining 1 tablespoon of oil and butter on medium heat.
- Once butter starts to melt, add whole spices. Saute till you get nice fragrance of the whole spices about 30 seconds.
- Then add onion paste, mix very well.
- Add some salt. Cook till all the moisture goes away and it starts to leave the sides of the pan about 7-8 minutes
- Add turmeric powder, coriander powder, red chili powder and kasoori methi. Mix well and cook for a minutes
- Add tomato puree. Stir it, as it start to boil, it will splutter a lot. partially cover the pan, means half covered, half open.
- cook till oil starts to ooze out from the sides and all the moisture evaporates.
- Add enough water to make gravy consistency. also mix in roasted cashews and let the gravy comes to a boil.
- Add heavy cream. Mix it well, taste the gravy and adjust the salt and spice level.
- Finally add lots of chopped cilantro. Stir it in and turn off the stove..
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