Pepper Mutton Curry Recipe

Spicy Pepper Mutton Curry Recipe with Step by Step Pictures. Mutton Pepper Gravy or Pepper Mutton Curry, whichever way you call them. These are delicious spicy lamb curry which is made using plenty of onions, shallots, ginger, garlic, tomatoes and freshly roasted spices.

Mutton Pepper Gravy

Pepper mutton curry which is super flavourful and spicy. This has a pop of sweetness coming from the small onions. Delicious pepper mutton curry which taste amazing with roti, rice or pulao.

It's been a while since i shared any mutton gravy recipe. This is the dish which i made for the get together and everyone loved it. They started asking me for the recipe. This is an easy recipe to make, you don't need much work at all. The curry also was very creamy, rich and tasty.

About this Recipe

Mutton Pepper Gravy or Pepper Mutton Curry, whichever way you call them. These are delicious spicy lamb curry which is made using plenty of onions, shallots, ginger, garlic, tomatoes and freshly roasted spices.

Mutton pepper chettinad style taste fiery with rice, roti or pulao. This gravy is cooked in pressure cooker so it can be made in half the time. If you don't have pressure cooker, you can cook this in a casserole low and slow.

The addition of roasted pepper and fennel seeds powder in the end makes it fiery and tasty.

Ingredients for Pepper Mutton Gravy

• Oil - 4 tblsp
• Cumin Seeds - 1tsp
• Cinnamon / Pattai - 1 stick
• Cardamom - 2
• Onion - 2 large sliced
• Ginger Garlic Paste - 2 tblsp
• Tomato - 2 chopped finely
• Coriander Powder - 2 tblsp
• Chilli Powder - 2 tsp
• Cumin Powder - 1 tsp
• Garam Masala Powder - 1 tsp
• Salt to taste
• Mutton - 500 grams
• Fennel Seeds - 2 tsp 
• Black Pepper - 2 tsp

Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you.

How to Make Pepper Mutton Gravy

1. Dry roast pepper and fennel till light golden. Cool it down and grind to a fine powder.
2. Heat oil in a pressure cooker, add cinnamon, cardamom and cumin. Let it sizzle.
3. Add in onions and cook till light golden. Add in ginger garlic paste and mix well.
4. Add in tomatoes and cook till mushy.
5. Take half of the tomato onion mix and puree finely. Add it back into the cooker.
6. Add in salt and spice powders except the freshly roasted ones and mix well.
7.  mutton and mix well.
8. Cover and pressure cook for 5 to 6 whistle. Simmer for 5 mins. Turn off the heat and let the steam escape by itself.
9. Open the cooker, add more water and bring it to a boil. add the freshly roasted spices. Mix well.
10. Serve.

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Pepper Mutton Curry Recipe | Mutton Pepper Gravy Recipe

Aarthi

Spicy pepper mutton curry which is lipsmackingly delicious. This spicy curry goes well with idiyappam, aapam and many more.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 45 minutes mins

Total Time 55 minutes mins

Course Main

Cuisine Indian

Servings 6 servings

Ingredients

  

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• Coconut Oil - ¼ cup
• Fennel seeds / Sombu / Saunf - 1 tsp
• Cardamom / Yelakai - 4
• Cloves / Krambu - 4
• Bay Leaf - 1
• Fennel Seeds / Saunf / Sombu - 1 tsp
• Cinnamon / Pattai - 1 stick
• Onion - 3 large chopped finely
• Green Chillies - 4
• Tomato - 2 chopped finely
• Ginger Garlic Paste - 2 tblsp
• Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
• Coriander powder - 2 tblsp
• Chilli Powder - 2 tblsp
• Cumin Powder - 2 tsp
• Garam masala powder - 1 tblsp
• Mutton - 1 kg chopped
• Salt to taste
• Whole black pepper - 1 tblsp
• Fennel seeds / Sombu / Saunf - 2 tsp
• Small onion / Shallots - 15 peeled
• Curry leaves a handful

Instructions

 

• Heat oil in a pressure cooker, add in whole spices and let them sizzle.
• Add in Onions and cook till golden. Add in ginger garlic paste and turmeric powder and mix well.
• Add in mutton pieces and saute till it is well seared. It will take around 10 mins.
• Now add in tomatoes and spice powders and salt. Cook that for 5 mins.
• Add in water and cover and cook for 4 whistle. Now let the pressure escape by itself.
• Open the cooker and add in shallots and curry leaves and simmer for 10 mins.
• Dry toast pepper and fennel. Grind till fine.
• Once the shallots is cooked, add the pepper mix and mix well.
• Take it off the heat.
• Serve.

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Version 1: Pepper Mutton Gravy Step by Step

1)Heat oil in a pressure cooker, add in whole spices.

2)Add in chopped onions

3)Saute till golden.Add in ginger garlic paste

4)Add turmeric powder

5)Add in mutton pieces

6)Stir fry the mutton in the oil for around 10 to 15 mins

7)The mutton pieces are well seared

8)Add in spice powders

9)Add green chillies and mix well

10)Add tomatoes

11)Add salt

12)Cook for 2 mins. Add in water. Add very little water

13)Mix well

14)Cover and pressure cook

15)Dry roast, pepper and fennel seeds

16)Cook till it is toasted

17)Take it in a jar

18)Powder till fine

19)Now the pressure is released

20)Add in small onions and curry leaves

21)Cook for 10 mins

22)Now shallots is cooked

23)Add powdered spice

24)Done

25)Serve

Version 2: Mutton Pepper Gravy Recipe (Milagu Mutton Kuzhambu Style)

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Pepper Mutton Gravy Recipe

Aarthi

Spicy and tasty mutton curry which taste so delicious and taste amazing with roti, rice or pulav.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 45 minutes mins

Total Time 55 minutes mins

Course Gravy Dishes

Cuisine Indian

Servings 4 servings

Ingredients

  

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• Oil - 4 tblsp
• Cumin Seeds - 1tsp
• Cinnamon / Pattai - 1 stick
• Cardamom - 2
• Onion - 2 large sliced
• Ginger Garlic Paste - 2 tblsp
• Tomato - 2 chopped finely
• Coriander Powder - 2 tblsp
• Chilli Powder - 2 tsp
• Cumin Powder - 1 tsp
• Garam Masala Powder - 1 tsp
• Salt to taste
• Mutton - 500 grams
• To Roast & Grind: Fennel Seeds - 2 tsp Black Pepper - 2 tsp

Instructions

 

• Dry roast pepper and fennel till light golden. Cool it down and grind to a fine powder.
• Heat oil in a pressure cooker, add cinnamon, cardamom and cumin. Let it sizzle.
• Add in onions and cook till light golden. Add in ginger garlic paste and mix well.
• Add in tomatoes and cook till mushy.
• Take half of the tomato onion mix and puree finely. Add it back into the cooker.
• Add in salt and spice powders except the freshly roasted ones and mix well.
• Add in mutton and mix well.
• Cover and pressure cook for 5 to 6 whistle. Simmer for 5 mins. Turn off the heat and let the steam escape by itself.
• Open the cooker, add more water and bring it to a boil. add the freshly roasted spices. Mix well.
• Serve.

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Pictorial:

1)Take a heavy bottom pan, add fennel seeds and peppers

2)Roast till golden brown

3)Cool it down, take it in a blender

4)Powder it fine

5)Heat oil in a pressure cooker

6)Add cumin, cardamom and cinnamon

7)Add in onions

8)Cook till golden

9)Add in ginger garlic paste

10)Saute for a min

11)Add in tomatoes

12)Mix well

14)Cook till mushy

15)Take half of the mix in a blender

16)Puree till smooth

17)Add it into the pan

18)Mix well

19)Add in spice powders

20)Mix well
21)Add in salt

22)Add in mutton pieces

23)Mix well

24)Cover and cook

25)Done

26)Add in water

27)Bring it to a boil

28)Add in pepper and fennel powder

29)Mixwell

30) Serve