Pepper Mutton Fry Recipe

Pepper Mutton Fry Recipe, a popular South Indian style mutton dish. A simple stir fry made with onion, tomatoes, ginger, garlic, chillies which is spiced with lots of freshly crushed black pepper, fennel seeds to make this mutton pepper fry seriously addictive.

Pepper Mutton Fry (Roast)

Pepper mutton or pepper chicken is a family favorite in my house. We make it more often than other dishes. To me an Authentic pepper mutton shouldn't use heavy spices at all.

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All the spice and heat should come from the freshly ground black pepper alone. So this is how I make my pepper mutton. Check my pepper mutton gravy recipe too.

About Pepper Mutton Fry

Pepper mutton also known as lamb pepper fry or mutton pepper fry is a popular South Indian dish made with onions, chillies, ginger, garlic, black pepper and few spices.

Every household has their unique way of cooking pepper mutton. This is how I make it at my home.

For me pepper mutton heat should come from Black pepper and green chillies. So I use them generously in this dish. Also roasting black pepper with fennel seeds bring the natural oil from the spice, which in turn makes the pepper mutton so yummy.

I used onions which is sauted until golden brown. You can use shallots too.

This is an easy recipe to try. A dry preparation of mutton with lots of onions, curry leaves and freshly ground pepper and fennel. The dish turns out peppery and spicy which goes well with rice, roti or even appam, idiyappam.

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Ingredients

• Mutton - Use tender mutton (lamb) pieces for this dish. Depending on the age of your mutton, the cooking time will vary. So you can adjust the time accordingly.
• Coconut Oil - I used coconut oil for my roasting process. You can use gingelly oil or for more aroma use ghee.
• Onions & Tomatoes - sliced onions is cooked till golden, which adds colour. Tomatoes add slight tang which is perfect. You can use shallots instead of onions.
• Ginger & Garlic - fresh ginger and garlic is crushed and used.
• Chillies & Curry Leaves - the spice for this dish, comes from black pepper and green chillies only. So use accordingly.
• Spice powders - there is no spice powders used in this dish. I added turmeric when cooking mutton. garam masala powder in the end for flavour.
• Special Pepper Spice Mix - fennel seeds and black pepper is roasted and ground to make the special spice blend. It adds the unique taste which we love.

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Cooking Mutton

1)Take mutton, salt, turmeric and water in a pressure cooker. Cover and Cook for 5 to 6 whistle, simmer for 10 mins.

2)Now turn off the heat and let the steam go all by itself. Open the cooker and set aside. Depending on your mutton texture, you need to cook longer.

If there is too much liquid in the cooker, you can strain it and make mutton soup or make rasam. Little liquid is not an issue.

Special Pepper Spice Mix

3)take black pepper and fennel seeds in a small pan.

4)Roast on low heat until it turns few shades darker and gets toasty aroma. take it off the heat and allow to cool completely.

5)Take it in a blender and grind into a coarse powder.

6)This is your special pepper mutton spice mix. It adds so much flavour to the dish. Set this aside till needed.

Masala Ingredients

7)Take all your ingredients. Slice onions, slit green chillies, chop tomatoes, curry leaves and coriander leaves. You also need crushed ginger and garlic paste.

Make Masala

8)Heat oil in a kadai. Add in onions, curry leaves and green chillies. Saute until it gets golden brown.

9)Add in ginger garlic paste and cook for 2 more minutes till the raw smell from them leaves and gets aromatic.

10)Add in chopped tomatoes and mix well. Cook this for 3 to 5 minutes until the tomatoes get mushy.

11)Sprinkle salt over this and toss to combine.

12)Add in the mutton pieces along with any cooking stock. If there is too much liquid, you have to strain it first.

Making pepper mutton

13)Roast this on high heat until the water evaporates.

14)Let the mutton gets some colour on the high heat.

15)Add in garam masala powder. This is optional, but it adds so much taste.

16)Roast the mutton on medium heat until it gets golden brown colour.

17)Add in the crushed fennel seeds and pepper spice mix, toss to coat each mutton pieces with this spice.

18)add coriander leaves and toss to coat.

19)Pepper mutton fry is ready to enjoy.

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