NADAN MUTTON CURRY

Ingredients : - 500 grams mutton, 4 dry red chillies, 1 tomato, 1 green chilly, 5 garlic flakes, 1 big onion, ½ cup pearl onions, 1 inch cinnamon, 2 cloves, ½ teaspoon cumin seeds, 1 ½ teaspoons coriander seeds, ½ teaspoon pepper, 1 inch ginger, ¼ teaspoon turmeric, few curry leaves, few sprigs coriander, coconut oil for frying and salt to taste.

Preparation time : -35 minutes     Serves : - 2

HOW TO PREPARE : - Finely chop the onion, tomato, ginger, and green chilly each separately and set them aside. Take a small frying pan and add a little oil and when the oil is hot add the dry red chillies. Sauté briefly and add the coriander seeds. Sauté till an aroma begins to rise then remove these ingredients and instead fry the pepper corns, cinnamon, cloves and cumin seeds and then set them aside too. Next sauté the pearl onions till they are brown and let it cool. Then add these onions and all the other fried stuff to a blender and make a fine paste. Take a pressure cooker and add the turmeric powder, mutton pieces and the freshly ground paste and pressure cook till the mutton is done. Take a frying pan and heat some oil and add the onions. Sauté the onions till they are deep brown and then add the green chillies, ginger and tomatoes. Crush the garlic flakes and add them too. Mix it all up and then add the boiled mutton to it. Cook till the gravy thickens and becomes dark brown in colour. Remove from heat and garnish with coriander leaves. Take a small frying pan and heat a teaspoon coconut oil. When the oil is very hot add the curry leaves and let them crackle. Pour this on the mutton curry and serve hot with rice.