Ingredients
(Please note most of these ingrediants are readily available at the supermarket)
Boneless Mutton / Lamb - 1 and 1/2 kg
Basmati Rice - 4 fists of your hand
Ghee (melted and purified butter) - 3 tbsps
Tomatoes diced into small cubes - 5
Onions diced into medium cubes - 4
Ginger - 1/2 inch cubes x2 (Do not remove the peel on the ginger)
Coriander & Cumin Powder - 3 tsp
Red Chilli Powder - 3 tsps
Saffron - a pinch (optional)
Cashew nuts and raisins - 1/2 cup
Fresh Coriander to garnish.
Directions
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1. Cut the mutton pieces into 1 inch cubes. Wash it 3 to 4 times and wait for all the water to drain out in a sieve.
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2. Make a paste with the green chillies, garlic and ginger with very little water.
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3. After the water has drained put the mutton pieces in a dish and add the green paste, turmeric, red chilli powder, salt, coriander and cumin powder, tomatoes, 3 tblsps of curd. Leave to marinate over night or for 2 hours. (Overnight brings the flavour to the mutton) (2 hours if you are in a hurry).
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4. Wash the Basmati rice two or three times and keep to soak for about 2 to 3 minutes. Meanwhile boil 6 cups of water and then add the rice. The water should be about 2 inches above the rice.
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Partially cook the rice to not an extent that the rice is extremely soft but a bit hard.
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Cut the lemon in four cubes and put in the rice so that the rice separates.
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5. After the marinating is completed. In a deep pot put the ghee, the basil leaves and cinnamon sticks. Leave till you can smell the basil leaves and sticks. Add the marination and cover with lid. Add hot water to the mutton after the mutton has released its own water. Cook till the mutton is tender. You can add cashew nuts and raisins after its done.
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6. Separate the rice in 3 portions. Mix the saffron with a little water. In 1 portion of the rice and the saffron and mix.
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7. After the mutton is done. Take out in a separate dish. Then in the mutton pot layer one layer white rice. 2nd layer mutton, 3rd layer white rice, 4th layer mutton and last layer saffron rice.
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8. Leave on the stove to absorb the mutton gravy with the lid on or put in the oven for 10 minutes to grill with the lid off.
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Garnish with coriander.
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Please email me at sunitabansdawala@yahoo.co.uk to tell me how you liked it!
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