Mutton Stew (മട്ടൺ സ്റ്റൂ)

 

Link to video recipe:

https://youtu.be/qze-occYGGY

Ingredients

Mutton, ½ kg

Juice of 1 lemon and 1 tbs salt (for washing mutton)

Coriander powder, 1 tsp

Fennel seed powder, 1 tsp

Black pepper powder, 1 tsp

Turmeric powder, ½ tsp

Cinnamon, 1 ½ inch piece

Cloves, 3 nos.

Cardamom, 2 nos.

Onion (chopped), 1 no. (100 g) 

Ginger (minced), 1 tsp + 1 tsp

Garlic (minced), 1 tsp + 1 tsp

Salt, ½ tsp + ½ tsp

Vinegar, 1 tbs

Water, ½ cup

Potato, 1 whole (250 g)

Coconut oil, 1 ½ tbs

Onion (sliced), 1 no. (100 g)

Green chilis, 5 nos.

Curry leaves, a few

Black pepper (crushed), 1 tsp

Garam masala, 1 tsp

Coconut milk (thick),* 1 cup

Coconut milk (thin)*, 1 ½ cup

Sugar, 1 tsp

Ghee, 1 tbs

Cashew nuts, 15 nos.

*Prepared from a whole coconut. Grate the coconut, add warm water and blend. Squeeze out the milk to prepare the thick milk, set aside. Add water to the grated coconut again and squeeze for the thin milk. Tastes a lot better than store-bought coconut milk or coconut powder.

Preparation

• Wash the mutton by adding lemon juice and salt in water, and drain the water completely.
• Cook the mutton in a pressure cooker by adding coriander powder, fennel seed powder, pepper powder, turmeric powder, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, chopped onion, 1 tsp ginger, 1 tsp garlic, ½ tsp salt, vinegar and ½ cup water until three whistles blow.
• Cook the whole potato in a pressure cooker by adding water (until 2 whistles blow) and set aside.
• Heat coconut oil in a saucepan and add sliced onion. Sauté until translucent.
• Add 1 tsp ginger and 1 tsp garlic. Sauté for 30 seconds.
• Add green chilis and curry leaves, and sauté for a few seconds.
• Add crushed pepper and garam masala, and sauté for a few seconds.
• Add cooked mutton and mix for two minutes, over medium low flame.
• Add thin coconut and mix.
• Add cooked and chopped potato pieces to the mutton stew.
• Boil the mutton stew until it turns thick.
• Check for salt.
• Add sugar and mix well.
• Meanwhile, roast cashews in ghee. Add cashews (with ghee), and thick coconut milk, to the stew. Gently warm (do not boil) 
• Remove from heat. Garnish with fresh curry leaves.

Thank you. 
Enjoy warm, with chappati, idiappam, appam or pathiri.