Korma Paste
This is an easy to make curry paste
Makes enough for: 1 batch curry paste
Ingredients
- 3 cm fresh root ginger, peeled and roughly chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, peeled
- 1 shallot, peeled and roughly chopped
- 6 cardamom pods, crushed
- 5 cloves
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 thin cinnamon quill
- 1 blade mace
- 5 mls ground coriander
- 2.5 mls garam masala
- 2.5 mls paprika
- 2.5 mls ground turmeric
- 2.5 mls cayenne pepper
- 1.25 mls saffron threads
Method
- Place the ginger, garlic and shallot into a blender and blitz until smooth
- Place the cardamom, cloves, bay leaves, cinnamon and mace into a dry frying pan
- Temper over a low temperature until you can smell the cinnamon
- Add the coriander, garam masala, paprika, turmeric and cayenne pepper
- Temper until you can smell the spices then add the saffron threads
- Take off the heat and leave to cool
- Tip into a spice grinder and blend until fine
- Add to the onion mixture and blitz to combine
- Use as per your recipe or store in a sterilized glass jar and use as needed
Notes
See this post on how I sterilize my glass jars.