Couple weeks back, hubby got some fresh mutton to cook. I was looking for a different recipe other than my mutton thoran, mutton chukka, mutton kuzhambu, chettinaad style gravy and mutton masala. You can check my mutton recipes here..I wanted to do a fried kind of dish. Actually i planned to cook the mutton and deep fry it. But somehow i ended up like this.
I will soon share a fried mutton recipe. This one is less fat i can say, since it is roasted in little oil. Actually the main flavouring for this mutton dish is curry leaves and fennel seeds. I added some kashmiri red chillies to make the dish turn out red.
Give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..
Preparation Time : 10 mins
Marinating Time : 15 mins
Cooking Time : 45 to 50 mins
Serves : 4 to 5
Ingredients:
Mutton - 500 grams
Turmeric Powder / Manjal Podi - 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Coconut Oil - 2 tblspn
Curry Leaves a handful
Roasted Gramdal / Pori kadalai / Pottu Kadalai - 2 tblspn powdered
For grinding:
Fennel Seeds / Sombu / Saunf - 1 tblspn
Kashmiri Red Chilli - 5
Red Chilli Powder - 2 tblspn
Ginger - 3 cm piece
Garlic - 6 fat cloves
Method:
Take mutton in a bowl, add in salt and turmeric powder and mix well. Leave this to marinate for 15 mins.
Now take a blender, add in all grinding ingredients and make it into a puree by adding some water.
Add this puree to the mutton and mix well. Wash the blender with ¼ cup of water and pour that over the mutton as well.
Transfer this to a pressure cooker and cook it for 3 whistle, simmer it for 20 mins. Turn the heat off and let the pressure go all by itself.
Open the pressure cooker and heat again, dry out the mutton.
Once it is dried, heat coconut oil in a kadai. Add a handful of curry leaves in it. Add in the dried mutton and toss well for 5 mins till it is well roasted.
Add in gram dal powder and toss again for 10 mins.
Once the mutton turn golden and well roasted, turn off the heat and serve.
Pictorial:
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| Take all your ingredients |
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| Take mutton in a bowl |
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| add some turmeric powder |
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| season with some salt |
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| mix well and let this marinate for 15 mins |
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| Take a blender jar |
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| add in fennel seeds |
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| add in ginger garlic |
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| i added some kashmiri red chillies, which are optional |
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| add in some chilli powder |
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| now time to blend |
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| make it into a smooth paste |
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| add the paste to the mutton |
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| i washed the blender with ¼ cup of water |
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| add that to the mutton |
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| mix well |
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| take a pressure cooker |
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| add the mutton |
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| cover |
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| Pressure cook |
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| now the mutton is done |
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| put it back on stove to evaporate the water |
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| look the mutton is now dry |
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| no water is left |
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| Now heat coconut oil in a kadai |
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| add a handful of curry leaves |
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| add the mutton piece |
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| saute..saute..saute.. |
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| cook till it gets nicely coloured |
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| Add in roasted gram dal powder |
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| toss well |
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| all roasted |
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| serve |
sindhuja
Mouth watering. ..sure will try tis soon...
Catherine
Oh my goodness, those pics looked great.
Blessings, Catherine.
Anonymous
Looks delicious .Shall try it with chicken.
gunjan gandhi
My O My .. Those mutton pieces looks gorgeous!!
Wl try them soon !!
Anonymous
What is gram daal powder.how to make it at home
Aarthi
@AnonymousIt is nothing but powdered roasted gram dal / pori kadalai / pottu kadalai / chutney dal.
Anonymous
Aarthi thank u so much for this recipe. I tried this today. This came out very well and my hubby got impressed.
Sujatha Nagarajan
This looks so delicious... I'm going to try it soon... Aarthi, can you please give me the recipe for mutton cutlet ?
Anonymous
I mafe this today. It was delicious.However i omitted the powdering dhal part. Thanks
Paramis Kalimuthu
hello, i tried this yesterday & it was delicious, easy to make t0o. but i was wondering why you didnt use cinnamon, anise star, etc to the mutton? Thanks
Paramis Kalimuthu
Hi Arthi, i tried this recipe yesterday, it was delicious & easy to make too. but i was wondering why you didnt add cinnamon, anise star, etc to the dish? thanks
Aarthi
@Paramis Kalimuthuthis dont need those
Anonymous
Hi There
THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing your wonderful recipes. I tried the mutton roast without a pressure cooker and simply on the kadai and it worked so Well!
Reena Balraj
Hi Aarthi I am a big fan of your cooking and your blog has been helping me in almost everyday's cooking and the best part is the pictures which I love so much, I am a bit lazy to read some times a whole huge paras but this is where your blog is very very special to me I can just start cooking only looking at the pictures. I am going to try this motton roast today will post pic n let you know how it came out. Why potty kadalai is added does it not reduce the spices or change the flavor at the end .. ? Thanks !
Aarthi
@Reena Balrajthat powder gives nice crispy and creamy texture to the dish. you can skip that if you dont want to
ilakya_arun
Hi Aarthi shall I do the same process for chicken instead of mutton will it work
bawani73
Hi Aarthi
I never cook mutton before so this its first time I am going to cook. I hope it come out well wish me good luck .
Anonymous
Hi, I have tried this recipe many times and it has never gone wrong. Thank you so much. I usually make a kilo of mutton for family and i always doubled all the ingredients. And it worked out fine. BUT...now i have to cook for ten of my friends and that meant getting 3kgs of mutton. But somehow....2 tbsp chilly powder and 6 pieces chilly pieces for 500g translated to 3kgs is 12 tbsp chilly powder and 36 piece of dry chilly sounds extremely scary. Please help. What do i do? 🙁
Shubha
Thank you for sharing this wonderful recipe, i really loved it.