Mutton Korma Recipe, Bengali Muslim-style

Bengali Muslim-style Mutton Korma made in a pressure cooker! 20 Ingredients, 1 Hour, super easy to cook and a bit different from Delhi-style Mutton Qurma!

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Bengali Muslim-style Mutton Korma

Mutton Korma needs no introduction I suppose! With hundreds of recipes available, there are variations. The recipe for Mutton Korma I am sharing is a bit different from the famous Delhi Style Mutton Korma or Awadhi Mutton Korma. I have tried both Purani Dilli Ka Mutton Korma as well as Lucknow style Korma and then I tried a simplified version, Bengali Muslim-style Mutton Korma, a curry quite famous in Bengali Muslim Weddings. Obviously, they do use Deg to cook the mutton curry, however, I use a pressure cooker to cook mutton korma at home! Needless to say, the recipe comes from my in-laws.

Mutton Korma in a Pressure Cooker

Here comes the make my life easy part. Traditionally Qorma is cooked in a deg for hours. You need at least 2 hours to slow-cook perfect mutton quorma. However, the Pressure cooker works quite well if you follow a few tips and tricks.

My recipe is the same as I learned, which is a family recipe that has been handed down for years and years and years. Well not to me! I mean not to me directly. Mehebub helped me with the recipe and I learned. The only thing I changed about it was making it in the Pressure Cooker. If you wish, you can use a heavy bottom pan to cook it however, I prefer my precious me-time which I save on a precious Sunday by using a pressure cooker to cook mutton. Moreover, it is better to save natural gas, isn't it? Supply is not unlimited, after all!

History of Korma aka Quorma

Korma aka Qorma needs no special introduction especially when we talk about Mughlai cuisine. Various types of Qormas were known to be cooked in the Mughal kitchen with or without meat. This probably is the reason, vegetable korma is equally popular. Traditional Qorma aka Korma calls for yogurt and also a few selected spices where the yogurt is cooked with the spices but not till the level of curdling. Basically, Qorma is a rich gravy-based dish. The recipe of Korma, however, varies from state to state and country to country. Though the basic concept is the same, however, qorma has adopted the distinctive flavors of different cuisines. An Awadhi Qorma is completely different than the Bengali Korma and even we cook korma differently in West Bengal and Bangladesh. 

If we took the reference of Akbarnama,  Qorma has popularized during the regime of Akbar thanks to the Rajput cooks. It has been told that the dish was named after the Rajput Kurma tribes. Traditionally Qorma was cooked with a lot of Ghee. Oil was not being used back then.

Variations

• Spicy - add chili pepper flakes while cooking to imbue heat into the dish
• Deluxe - add more Ghee
• Kid-friendly - adjust the spices!

Equipment

Equipment can have a big impact on how a recipe turns out. If using a pressure cooker to cook Mutton Korma, use a heavy one. Else you can use a Deg with a heavy bottom.

Here's how I cook the perfect Mutton Korma!

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