Chillzee Recipes - Mutton Gravy (Varuthu araithathu) - Nanthini
Ingredients
For making the paste:
Coriander seeds (thaniya) - 2 big spoon
Red chilies’ - 12
Grated Coconut - 4 big spoon
Fennel seeds (Sombu) - 2 tsp
Cloves (krambu) - 2
Cinnamon (pattai) - 1 small pc
Poppy seeds (kasakasa) - 1 tsp
For gravy:
Mutton - .5 kg
Cinnamon (pattai) - 1 small pc
Cloves (krambu) - 3
Cardamom (elakkai) - 1
Garlic - 6 cloves
Ginger (inji) - half finger size
Onion - 1 or Pearl onion (Chinna vengayam) - 10
Tomato - 1
Lemon juice - 2 - 4 drops
Curry leaves (karuveppilai), Coriander leaves (kothamali) - Little
Turmeric powder - small pinch
Salt - to taste
Oil - as Required
Cooking Instructions
Paste Preparation:
- Add little oil to a pan.
- When the pan becomes hot, reduce the flame to sim.
- Add coriander seeds and fry till it changes color.
- Keep is aside in a plate.
- Now add few more drops of oil and then add red chilies.
- Fry the chilies and when they start turning color, remove it from the flame and keep it along with Coriander seeds.
- Add few more drops of oil and then add grated coconut.
- Fry the coconut till it starts to change in color.
- Now add fennel seeds, Cloves, Cinnamon and Poppy seeds to coconut.
- Continue to fry the mix till coconut turns color.
- Keep it along with Coriander seeds and chilies.
- Let the contents cool and then grind them into a fine paste in a mixie or blender.
- Add water as required.
Gravy preparation:
- Crush Garlic cloves and Ginger piece and keep it ready
- Slightly crush, Cinnamon, Cardamom and cloves and keep it ready.
- Cut onion and tomato into small pieces.
- Keep cooker in medium flame.
- When it becomes hot, add required oil and allow it get hot.
- Add Cinnamon, Cardamom and cloves.
- When they splutter, add ginger and garlic cloves
- After sautéing for a while, add Curry leaves and Coriander leaves.
- Now add onion pieces and sauté well.
- When onion changes color, add tomato pieces and sauté.
- Once tomato gets cooked, add mutton pieces and mix well.
- Add pinch of turmeric powder and lemon juice
- Also add required salt, mix well and let it cook for 2-3 mins
- Now add the prepared paste to mutton.
- Add required water for cooking.
- Close the cooker and let it cook.
- Usually 3 whistles + 10 minutes in sim should do.
- After the pressure goes, down open the Pressure cooker, mix the gravy well. Check salt and add if required.
- Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with rice, chapatti, naan or roti.