Mutton Gravy is cooked with a lot of spices to give a soupy gravy. Here all the spices are fried separately and blended into a paste, and then added to mutton to form a rich and spicy gravy. The texture of the Mutton Gravy is got by adding coriander leaves and blended along with the spicy paste, which gives a nutty flavour and a thickening effect to the gravy. The gravy makes a good combination for most of the breads and rice.
Ingredients:
1. Mutton - 1 kg.
2. Onion - 2 no.
3. Garlic - 1 no.
4. Pepper seeds - 2 tsp.
5. Chillies - 6 no.
6. Ginger - a medium piece.
7. Cinnamon - 3 to 4 small pieces
8. Cloves - 7 no.
9. Chilly powder - 1 tbsp.
10. Coriander powder - 2 tbsp.
11. Turmeric - 1 tsp.
12. Coconut powder/fresh coconut pieces - 1/4 cup
13. Coriander leaves - 1 cup.
14. Salt to taste
15. Oil - 3 tbsp.
Cooking Method:
1. Wash the mutton and keep aside.
2. Chop One onion and keep this too aside.
3. In a deep bottom vessel or pressure cooker, heat 2 tbsp of oil and fry the chopped onions for 3 to 4 minutes. Add the mutton pieces and cook in low to medium flame covered. Add salt after giving it a thorough stir. In the meanwhile we can make a masala paste for the gravy.
For making a paste:
2. Take the outer layer of the garlic pods and keep this too aside. Peel and chop the ginger.
3. Once all this is ready, heat up 1 tbsp. of oil and fry the garlic and green chillies in just low to medium heat. Then add garlic pieces to it followed by onion pieces.
4. To this add cinnamon, cloves and coconut powder. After giving a stir after a minute switch off the flame. Now when the ingredients are hot, add turmeric, coriander powder, chilly powder and coriander leaves to it, mix it and allow it to cool.
5. Once all the fried ingredients cools down blend it in to paste.
Continued from Cooking Method:
4. Now add the blended paste to the meat, which is getting cooked and cook this for around 10 to 15 minutes on low to medium flame covered with a lid. Keep stirring once every 3 minutes.
5. Add sufficient water to this for the meat to get cooked and cover the pot or lock the pressure cooker lid.
6. Pressure cook until the meat is tender.
7. Mutton gravy can be relished with just steamed rice or any sort of breads like chapati, poori, kulchas, nans and other breads.
