Creamy Mixed Vegetable Korma with Yogurt Recipe

If you use fresh raw vegetables

1. Chop or slice the onion small. Wash, peel and cut your vegetable into bite-sized pieces. Keep the eggplant and tomato apart (and any vegetables such as spinach) because the cooking period is shorter.
2. Boil veggies such as carrot, potato, cauliflower, french beans, green peas etc covered with salt water until soft for about 10 to 15 minutes. Keep tomatoes, par-boiled vegetables and veggies that don't need cooking aside.

To cook the Korma

1. In the meanwhile, add the oil to a pan and fry your cut onion soft and translucent over a medium high heat setting.
2. Briefly take from the heat and add your ginger garlic paste, bay leaf, and slightly crushed cardamom seeds. Quickly stir cook, and temper for 1 minute or so over a medium heat setting. (be careful, ginger garlic paste is semi liquid and jumps up in the hot oil.
3. Take again from the heat and continue to add in the other spices: ground turmeric powder, ground cumin powder, ground coriander powder and red ground chili powder. Stir-fry for 1 minute over a medium heat setting.
4. Add in the tomato and stir-cook for a minute over a medium-high heat setting.
5. Reduce the heat and continue stirring in the tomato sauce and black pepper. Stir-cook to incorporate the ingredients on a medium heat setting.
6. Add all the vegetables and the broth.
7. Mix the entire contents thoroughly and allow to simmer for a minute or two on a medium flame.
8. Stir in the cream and incorporate it into the veg korma curry. Leave to cook for a couple of minutes so that the flavors get into the curry.
9. Reduce the heat to a minimum and toss in the yogurt. Mix it all well.
10. Season with salt and simmer on a lower heat for 5 minutes, or until you are satisfied with the consistency and flavor.
11. Pick out and discard your whole spices, the bay leaf and cardamom pods, before you garnish and serve your korma.
12. Garnish with chopped fresh cilantro (aka fresh coriander) and serve hot with Indian flatbread such as bread, Indian roti, paratha, naan or cooked rice.