Thick curry made with minced mutton, onions, peppers, ghee, cloves, cardamom, and salt.

10 seer meat
2 seer ghee
1 seer onions
2 dam pepper
1 dam each: cloves, cardamoms
1/8 seer salt
(1 seer equals 2 ½ lbs., 1 dam equals ¾ oz., 1 misqal equals 6.22 grams)

Qima is a real household favourite, and it can be made in a variety of ways, with or sans vegetables. Alloo qima, palak qima, meythee qima, Hyderabadi achari qima, matar qima, mirch qima, needless to say mincemeat (chicken, turkey, mutton or beef) can be made in as many ways as there are languages, cultures and ethnicities in the subcontinent.

When it was time for me to make qima, I decided upon the largely preferred qima alloo from my mother’s recipe. Here it is, from my kitchen to yours