Light chicken korma
By Emma Lewis
Cooking time
Prep: 15 mins Cook: 20 minsSkill level
EasyServings
Serves 4A mild and healthy chicken korma curry that's still satisfying and full of flavour
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Freezable
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 243
- protein
- 37g
- carbs
- 4g
- fat
- 9g
- saturates
- 1g
- fibre
- 1g
- sugar
- 3g
- salt
- 0.31g
Ingredients
- small knob fresh ginger, peeled and finely sliced
- 1 garlic clove
- 1 onion, sliced
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 4 skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite-size pieces
- 1 tsp garam masala
- 100ml chicken stock
- 3 tbsp low-fat fromage frais
- 2 tbsp ground almonds
- handful toasted, sliced almonds, to serve
- coriander leaves, plain rice, naan bread or chapatis, to serve
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Method
- Cook the ginger, garlic and onion in a large pan with the oil until softened. Tip in the chicken and cook until lightly browned, about 5 mins, then add in garam masala and cook for 1 min further.
- Pour over the stock and simmer for 10 mins until the chicken is cooked through. Mix together the fromage frais and ground almonds. Take the pan off the heat and stir in the fromage frais mixture. Sprinkle over sliced almonds, garnish with coriander and serve with boiled rice, chapatis or plain naan bread.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, February 2006
Comments, questions and tips
Comments
Tasty curry not quite the same as korma from takeaway but all family love it and clean plates all round. I add some chillies and more veg mushrooms peppers etc. Good curry for watching the calories. I have also made it with mascarpone or creme Fraiche when I have no fromage frais and works just as well.
I made this last night, it was nice but nothing exciting, good as a quick midweek meal.
It was lacking the taste of coconut so might add that next time. The sauce is very runny and not much of it so if this was split between 4 people as the recipe suggests, then you'd have mainly pieces of chicken with rice.
Very tasty, easy, everyone loved it. Special bonus being low fat :-) The combination of fromage frais and ground almonds was a surprise as it worked so well and replaced the usual coconut milk which I don't like, so a very good alternative - great find! Have filed recipe, will definitely do it again!
Made this for the first time for dinner tonight. Although it went down well and everyones plate was empty, ( maybe they were just being polite : D ), I'm sorry to say it had no taste at all. After the fromage frais went in, everything began to curdle. It was basically just chicken and water! Instead of almonds I used red and green peppers. I won't be making this again and will try something else. Fun to try though!
