Non Veg Rice Dishes - Mutton Pulov

Non Veg Rice Dishes - Mutton Pulov

Ingredients:

¼ kg. Mutton, small pieces

½ kg. Basmati Rice

½ cup butter/ghee

½ piece ginger

2 or 3 red chilies

½ tsp. turmeric powder

1 garlic finely chopped

3 or 4 onions, cut in small pieces

cashewnuts - about 10 pieces couple of bay leaves

3 or 4 cinnamon smashed/powdered

5 cloves, smashed/powdered

4 cardamom smashed

4 or 5 strings of Saffron

1 cup yogurt/curd

4 green chilies finely chopped

small bunch of finely chopped coriander leafs

½ lime squeezed into juice

Salt as required

To Grind:

Grind the ginger, cashew nuts, red chillies and garlic

into a fine paste using a blender/mixer.

Preparation:

Add the butter or ghee in a pan. Then add the onions

and fry onions

until golden brown and set aside.

Add the ground paste and fry in the pan with 1tsp

ghee/butter

After the oil separates from the paste, add the mutton

and fry

further.

Add little water as required for gravy consistency

Cook covered in low flame till meat is cooked

Boil rice with bay leaves in a vessel and remove when

'almost' cooked.

Add salt, drain and set aside.

Add little water to yogurt/curd if too thick.

Then take a fine piece of muslin and strain the

yogurt/curd

Add the turmeric, smashed cloves, cinnamon, cardamom,

turmeric and finely chopped green chillies. Then add

the coriander

leaves.

Add lime juice to enhance the taste and mix well.

Add curd mixture to mutton. Stir well.

Dissolve saffron in few tspns of milk and sprinkle

over half the rice

In a large pan put rice, mutton and fried onions in

alternate layers

and repeat the process till everything is put.

Add 2 tspn of ghee over the rice. Cook covered in low

flame until rice

is fully cooked .