Chicken Korma - Instant Pot & Stovetop recipe (2024)

How To Skin Chicken Drumsticks

Most Indian recipes such as curries, pulao, and biryani calls for skinless chicken legs or drumsticks. And as you may have noticed, most US grocery stores sell drumsticks with skin. I have always gotten questions on how I deskin chicken and I recently also published a quick video tutorial on Instagram. Here are the quick and easy steps to de-skin the drumsticks:

• Break a paper towel into two pieces
• Use each piece as a grip to hold the two ends of the drumstick
• Then pull down the skin from the top thick part towards the bottom pulling apart the skin

How to Make Stove Top Chicken Korma

• Heat oil in a large skillet or pot. Add cardamom, cloves, black pepper, and cumin, and saute for 30 seconds or until aromatic.
• Add onions and salt and cook on medium heat for 8 to 10 minutes or until the onions turn light brown and translucent. Cover the pot with a lid to speed up the cooking of onions.
• Add ground spices, ginger, garlic, and chicken.
• Add ¾ cup of water and give a quick stir.
• Cover the pot and cook on medium heat for 10 to 15 minutes or until the chicken is fully cooked. Use a digital thermometer to make sure that the internal temperature of the thickest piece is at 165 F.
• Add a few spoonfuls of the curry to the yogurt and mix well. Stir in the yogurt in the chicken korma and gently mix. Garnish with cilantro.

Serving

Serve chicken korma with basmati rice, parathas, and cucumber salad. For a low-carb meal, serve with cauliflower rice. Note: Be sure to pick out and discard the whole spices while you eat.

More Indian Curry Recipes

Do you Enjoy Indian curries? Here are some of my popularInstant Potcurry recipes:

• Healthy “Butter” Chicken
• Prawn Masala
• Restaurant Fav Chicken Tikka Masala
• Mom’s Authentic Chicken Curry
• Indian Fish Curry
• Quick and Easy Kheema Curry
• Royal Mughlai Chicken Korma
• Spicy Homestyle Chicken Karahi

Looking for vegetarian options or trying to include more plant-based meals in your diet? Then check out these easy vegetarian recipes for dinner.

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• ▢ 1½ pounds chicken thighs cut into pieces or 6 skinless drumsticks **
• ▢ 1 tablespoon oil
• ▢ 4 whole green cardamom pods
• ▢ 4 cloves
• ▢ 12 black peppercorns
• ▢ ½ teaspoon cumin seeds
• ▢ 1 large yellow onion finely chopped
• ▢ 1 teaspoon ginger paste paste
• ▢ 1 teaspoon garlic paste paste
• ▢ ¼ teaspoon ground turmeric
• ▢ 1 teaspoon Kashmiri chili powder
• ▢ 1 teaspoon ground coriander
• ▢ 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• ▢ ¼ cup water
• ▢ ½ cup full fat or Greek yogurt
• ▢ 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• ▢ ¼ cup cilantro chopped

Optional Pot in Pot Rice (For Instant Pot Recipe only)

• ▢ 1 cup basmati rice rinsed and drained
• ▢ 1½ cups water
• ▢ 1 teaspoon kosher salt

Instant Pot Recipe

• Turn the Instant Pot to sauté mode and heat oil. Add whole spices - cardamom, cloves, black pepper, and cumin. Saute for 30 seconds.

• Add onion and mix well. Saute for 2 minutes covered with glass lid.

• Add ginger, garlic, turmeric, red chili powder, ground cumin, ground coriander, and salt. Mix well.

• Add chicken and water. Mix well to evenly coat all the spices to the chicken. Turn the saute mode off.

• Optional Pot in Pot Rice - Add rice, water, and salt to a stainless steel pot.Place a tall trivet in the Instant and place the rice pot over it.

• Close Instant Pot with pressure valve to sealing. Pressure Cook for 8 minutes followed by 5-minute Natural Release.

• Open the Instant Pot. Take out the rice and trivet if cooking rice.

• Add a few spoonfuls of hot curry to the yogurt and mix well. This step is important to avoid the cold yogurt getting split in the curry.

• Cook on Saute mode to thicken the sauce. Garnish with chopped cilantro!

Stove Top Recipe

• Heat oil in a large skillet or pot. Add cardamom, cloves, black pepper, and cumin, and saute for 30 seconds or until aromatic.

• Add onions and salt and cook on medium heat for 8 to 10 minutes or until the onions turn light brown and translucent. Cover the pot with a lid to speed up the cooking of onions. Add ground spices, ginger, garlic, and chicken.

• Add ¾ cup of water and give a quick stir. Cover the pot and cook on medium heat for 10 to 15 minutes or until the chicken is fully cooked. Use a digital thermometer to make sure that the internal temperature of the thickest piece is at 165 F.

• Add a few spoonfuls of the curry to the yogurt and mix well. Stir in the yogurt in the chicken korma and gently mix. Garnish with cilantro.

Serve with hot steamed rice and parathas. For a low-carb meal serve with cauliflower rice. Be sure to pick out and discard the whole spices while you eat.

How To Skin Chicken Drumsticks

Here are the quick and easy steps to de-skin the drumsticks and check out the video tutorial on Instagram:

• Break a paper towel into two pieces
• Use each piece as a grip to hold the two ends of the drumstick
• Then pull down the skin from the top thick part towards the bottom pulling apart the skin

Variations

• We enjoy this curry a bit soupy. If you want a thick curry, reduce the ¼ cup water by adding only 2 tablespoons of water and saute in the end for a few extra minutes.
• For boneless chicken thighs or breasts - cook for 5 minutes followed by a 10-minute natural pressure release.