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Meat Recipes

Spiced Rezala

Ingredients

  • 1kg lean boneless mutton or lamb
  • 1 tbsp ginger
  • 1 tsp ground garlic
  • 1/2 cup finely chopped onion
  • 1 tsp ground tumeric
  • 2 tsp ground cumin
  • 1/2 tsp chilli powder (optional)
  • 2 tsp ground coriander
  • 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
  • 1/2 cup natural yoghurt
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1/2 cup cooking oil
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 10 green chillies
  • 1 tbsp ground poppy seed (optional)

Steps

  1. In a saucepan combine all ingredients except sugar, green chillies and poppy seed. Mix thoroughly. Put lid on, cook over a moderate heat for about 25 min, lower heat then simmer for about one hour. Stir from time to time. Add sugar, salt, and poppy seed.
  2. Fry meat stirring constantly till oil surfaces. Add green chillies and one cup of hot water. Simmer for 20 min.

Serve hot with boiled rice, bread, or porota. Makes 8-10 servings.

Brown Meat

Ingredients

  • 2kg tender boneless mutton or lamb
  • 1 cup grated coconut
  • 1/2 cup finely chopped onion
  • 1 and 1/2 tbsp chopped ginger
  • 1 tbsp ground garlic
  • 1 tbsp salt
  • 3/4 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tbsp ground green chilli
  • 1/4 cup finely chopped coriander leaves
  • 1 and 1/4 cup cooking oil

Steps

  1. Cut meat into 5cm cubes, and grind coconut.
  2. Combine all ingredients except oil. Mix them and marinate for 1 hour.
  3. Heat oil in a saucepan, add meat, stir, cover, and bring to a boil. Simmer over a low heat until meat is tender. keep over a very low heat for about an hour or till oil seperated out.

Fried Mutton

Ingredients

  • 2kg lean boneless mutton or lamb
  • 6 whole red chillies
  • 1 tbsp choppped ginger
  • 2 tbsp crushed garlic
  • 1 cup sliced onion
  • 1 tbsp coriander seed
  • 1 tbsp cumin seed
  • 2 tsp pepper corn
  • 6 cardamoms
  • 6 sticks cinnamon
  • 1/2 cup natural yoghurt
  • 1 cup cooking oil

Steps

  1. Cut meat into 1/2 lb pieces. In a saucepan place meat, chilli, ginger, garlic, onion, and coriander. Add water to cover meat. Put lid on and bring to a boil and simmer till gravy thickens.
  2. Add 1 tbsp salt aned rest of the ingredients, stir, cover, and keep over a low heat until meat is tender and water has been taken up. Fry stirring constantly for about 10-12 min, until oil seperates out.

Serve with bread or rice. Makes 16-20 servings

Mutton Rezala

Ingredients

  • 2kg lean boneless mutton
  • 1 cup finely chopped onion
  • 2 tbsp ground ginger
  • 2 tsp ground garlic
  • 5 cardamoms
  • 3 sticks cinnamon
  • 1 cup natural yoghurt
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 1 tbsp salt
  • 20 green chillies
  • 1 cup ghee or oil
  • 2 tbsp keora water
  • 2 tbsp raisins
  • 2 tbsp shredded almond

Steps

  1. Make moderate sized pieces of mutton.
  2. In a cooking pan place meat, onion, ginger, garlic, cinnamon, cardamom, yoghurt, salt, and ghee. Mix well, cover, cook over mdoerate heat for about 25 min.
  3. When gravy thickens add keora, sugar and simmer for about 45 min, stirring from time to time. Add green chilli, raisins and keep over very low heat for about 1 hour. Garnish with almond

Serve rezala with plain pullao, rice, or porota.

Meat Potato Curry

Ingredients

  • 1kg beef or lean boneless mutton
  • 3/4 cup cooking oil
  • 1/4 cup finely chopped onion
  • 1 tbsp ground ginger
  • 2 tsp ground garlic
  • 2 tsp ground tumeric
  • 1/2-1 tsp chilli powder
  • 1 tbsp salt
  • 2 tsp ground cumin
  • 2 tsp ground coriander
  • 1 tsp ground black papper
  • 3 sticks cinnamon
  • 3 cardamoms
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 450g potato
  • 2 tsp curry powder

Steps

  1. In a pan put the ingredients except 1/4 cup of oil, potato and curry powder. Mix them well. Add water just to cover meat. Put lid on, cook over a low heat until meat is tender and water dries up.
  2. Peel and pare potatoes
  3. In a seperate pan heat oil. Add meat and potato, fry 10-15 min. Add hot water to cover meat and potato. Season with curry powder. Simmer till potato is soft.

Serve hot with rice, pullao, porota, or bread. Makes 6 servings.

Taj Kebab

Ingredients

  • 1kg tender boneless beef
  • 150g potato
  • 150g tomato
  • 75g onion
  • 2 teaspoon ground tumeric
  • 1/2 teaspoon chilli powder
  • 2 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1 teaspoon ground garlic
  • 2 teaspoon ground cumin
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 1 tablespoon ground poppy seed
  • 4 cardamoms
  • 3 sticks cinnamon
  • 2 cloves
  • 3 whole red chillies (optional)
  • 1 tablespoon vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon ground green papaya
  • 2/3 cup cooking oil

Steps

  1. Slice beef into moderate sized pieces. Mix with ground green papaya (or meat tenderiser). Keep for 10 minutes.
  2. Peel potatoes. Slice potatoes, tomatoes and onion
  3. In a saucepan arrange 1/3 of the beef, potato, tomato and onion in layers, repeat arrangement twice. Add 1 cup of waterr and place lid on, bring to a boil. Simmer for about 1-2 hours till meat is tender and oil surfaces.

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