Spicy Mutton Curry

Ingredients

• 500g goat meat with bones (mutton)
• 3 onions, roughly chopped
• 3 tomatoes, roughly chopped
• 3tbsp ginger & garlic paste
• 1tsp ground cinnamon
• 2 bay leaves, 8 curry leaves
• 2 cloves
• 1tsp fennel seeds
• 1tbsp turmeric powder
• 1tbsp red chilly powder
• 1tbsp coriander powder
• 3tsp meat masala
• 2tbsp yoghurt
• 2 fresh red chillies, roughly chopped
• Oil, salt, 2tbsp ground black pepper
• Few of coriander leaves

Method

- Saute onion with oil in a hot pan until soft and translucent. Then add tomatoes, the fresh red chillies and fry them all together for about 5 minutes. Remove the mixture from the heat and let it cool for few minutes, and then grind them into a smooth paste.
- Heat oil in a pressure cooker, add the mixture and fry for 3 minutes, then add ginger & garlic paste and cook until the raw smell of ginger & garlic goes off.
- Add the mutton and the meat masala into the pressure cooker, mix all well and fry the mutton with the masala for 10 minutes in medium heat.
- Now add the red chilli powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder, black pepper, salt and a cup of water into the mixture. Stir it well so that all ingredients mix together and close the lid of the pressure cooker. Pressure cook it until the whistle goes off 6 times. Remove from the heat and put it aside.
- Heat oil in a casserole, add cloves, cinnamon, fennel seed, bay leaves, curry leaves and gently fry the spices for 1-2 minutes, then transfer the mutton mixture from the pressure cooker into the casserole, add more water if the curry is too thick. Let it boil for a few minutes in medium low heat until it becomes a bit thick in consistency, add yoghurt, mix well and remove from the heat.
- Garnish it with coriander leaves and serve hot with steamed rice or bread.

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