Chicken Korma

The origin of the ‘khoormah’, ‘quormah’ or korma as it is more often to referred to in the British Isles is an Islamic dish that came to India via the Mughals of central Asia. The British, from the time of the East India Company and later the British Raj, enjoyed their chicken and lamb kormas immensely and, as the wife of a retired Indian officer wrote in 1895, ‘if made successfully, constituted an agreeable change from English curries’. Recipes for a korma were included in most of the cook