Mutton cooked in Mughlai style. The preparation is unique, and if you follow the steps then you will be licking your fingers after you are done.

Servings: 4 | Time To Prepare: 2 hrs | Submitted By: Shantanu Nag

Ingredients

• 1, lb, (ribs favorable) Meat (lamb or goat)
• 1, medium, paste Onion
• 2, tbsp, paste Garlic
• 1.5, tbsp, paste Ginger
• 2, tbsp, grounded to paste Cashew nut
• 4, crushed Cardamom
• 3, crushed Black Cardamom
• 3, tbsp Yogurt
• 2, tbsp, (not sweet) Cream
• 1, tsp Mace
• 10, kept whole Whole Red Chili
• 6, slit Green Chili
• to taste Salt
• 1, tsp Sugar
• 1/4, tsp Saffron
• 2, tbsp Milk
• 1, tsp (optional) Kewra Water
• 1/2, cup Ghee

Instructions

1. In a large bowl mix the meat, yogurt, onion, ginger, garlic, cashew paste, green and black cardamoms, mace powder, salt and sugar. Marinade for 1-2 hours.
2. In a cooker heat ghee. Add the meat shaking off the excess marinade into the bowl. Fry in medium heat for 15 minutes.
3. Add all the marinade and whole red chili. Mix and bring it to boil on full heat.
4. Reduce heat to low, cover and cook for 45 to 60 minutes. Make sure not to let the meat stick to the bottom of the cooker by stirring it frequently.
5. Cook till the meat is tender. Add water as required so that the meat does not stick. If needed give 3 to 4 whistles to make the meat tender. Remove pressure.
6. Mix the milk and saffron in a small sauce pan and heat for a minute. Add it to the meat.
7. Add cream and slit green chilies to the meat. Bring it to boil on full heat. Reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes.
8. Add the Kewra water and simmer for another 10 minutes. Remove from heat and serve with rice, pulao or paratha.

More Pictures

1		Mutton mixed with yogurt. Onion, Ginger-Garlic, and cashew Paste.
2		Mix and Marinate
3		Fry meat shaking off excess marinade.
4		Adding red chili, and fry.
5		Add rest of marinade and fry properly.
6		Adding milk mixed with saffron

Ratings

shwetasinhade (5/4/2004)….I loved it the only problem was the whole red chilli melted while cooking and the rezala was too hot.

Stephen3 (4/18/2004)….very nice but you must like hot ones try putting in half the chillis

mitikasach (7/15/2002)….Finally found a good recipe for Mutton Rezala, one of my favorites.

Note: these are the reviews posted by users on the old angithi.com website,
which has been now ported to this blog site.

A quick and easy to cook mutton preparation. Very tasty with very less spices. You will be surprised that mutton can be cooked with so less spices. Try it today!!

Servings: 4 | Time To Prepare: 25 Minutes | Submitted By: Shantanu Nag

Ingredients

• 1, lb (lamb) Meat (lamb or goat)
• 3, medium Onion
• 2, pods Garlic
• 1, tbsp Coriander Powder
• 1, tbsp (powder) Peppercorns
• 1, tsp, paste Ginger
• 1/2, tsp Turmeric powder
• 1, tbsp Garam Masala Powder
• 4, Potato
• 2, tbsp Cooking Oil
• to taste Salt
• 4, chopped Green Chili
• 1/2, cup (chopped) Cilantro
• 1/2, tsp Sugar

Instructions

1. Cut meat into small pieces. Slice 2 onions into four pieces each. Take the other onion, and make a paste with half of it and the rest half, cut into slices. Cut the potatoes into half.
2. Boil the meat in a large vessel. Add the chopped onions, garlic, salt and potato pieces. Add water as required. Cook till mutton is tender. Remove from heat and keep aside.
3. Heat oil. Add onion and ginger paste. Fry for a minute. Add coriander, turmeric (optional) and peppercorn powder and cook for a few minutes.
4. Add the boiled meat, potato and onion along with the water. Boil for five minutes. Add garam masala, green chili, salt and sugar. Cook for two minutes. Remove and serve garnished with chopped coriander leaves.

More Pictures

1		Boil the meat with all the ingredients as mentioned in step 2
2		Mutton cooked properly and prepared
3		Fry onion & ginger paste along with the sliced onions.
4		Fry till onion is brown.
5		Fry with spices.
6		Add the boiled mutton and everything else.

Mutton cooked with unripened jack fruit (echor) and potato. Its is a full meal, and this recipe turns out very tasty. Famous Bengali delicacy. Use canned Jack fruit if fresh not available. Must try it out.

Servings: 4 | Time To Prepare: 2 hrs | Submitted By: Shantanu Nag

Ingredients

• 1, cup, segments deseeded & quartered Jackfruit
• 1, lb, small cubes Meat (lamb or goat)
• 2, medium, cut each into 4 pc Potato
• 2, medium Onion
• 1, tsp Garam Masala Powder
• 5, pods Garlic
• 1/2, inch Ginger
• 1, tsp Turmeric powder
• 2, tsp Red Chili Powder
• 2, tsp Coriander Powder
• 1/2, tsp Cumin Seed Powder
• 4, tbsp Cooking Oil
• to taste Salt
• 1/2, tsp Sugar

Instructions

1. Grind  garlic, ginger, 1/2 onion and 4 tbsp water. Strain out the juice and throw away the pulp. Marinade  mutton with this juice, and rest of the spices. Mix salt and sugar and let it marinade for 1/2 hr.
2. Wash, clean and cut the kathal (jack fruit) into small square pieces. If fresh jack fruit is not available, then you can use the canned version. Mix with 1/2 tsp salt and 1/2 tsp turmeric powder.
3. Mix the potato pieces. with 1/2 tsp salt and 1/2 tsp turmeric powder. Heat the oil in a cooker and fry till light brown. Keep it aside. In the same oil fry the jack fruit, till it turns light red. Keep it aside.
4. Finely slice the rest of the onion. In the same oil fry the onion till it turns light brown.
5. Add the marinade with the mutton. Fry the mutton in medium heat till oil separates into the side of the pan. Will take close to an hour of frying.
6. Add 2 cups of water and bring it to boil. If required give 3 whistles as required for making the meat tender.
7. Remove pressure and add the fried potato and jack fruit  Cook in medium heat for 20 minutes. Remove from heat and server hot.

More Pictures

1		Jackfuit in can, available in chinese/indian grocery stores.
2		Raw ingredients for this recipe
3		Mutton cleaned and cut into pieces
4		Strain the juice into the mutton.
5		Mix rest of spices, as mentioned in step 1 of instruction
6		Potatoes mixed with turmeric and salt.
7		Fry potatoes in oil till golden brown.
8		Jackfruit mixed with turmeric and salt
9		Fried jackfruit and potato kept aside
10		Fry onions till light brown
11		Add the marinated mutton.
12		Fry till oil starts coming out
13		Add water and the fried potato and jackfruit. Simmer till done.