Mutton chukka

This is our home style of mutton chukka....It is super spicy and goes well with rasam sadham or curd rice...It can also be used as side dish for dosa...Usually we take the meat pieces from mutton kuzhambu and prepare this...here i started from scratch....but u can do like that if u want...

Ingredients

Ingredient

Measurement

Mutton 

1 lb

Cinnamon sticks 

2 inch

cloves

3

cardamom 

1

Fennel seeds

1 1/2 tsp

Curryleaves

1 sprig

Red chillies 

10 or 12

Cashew pieces

few

Red onion  

1 big 

Ginger garlic paste

1 tblsp

Turmeric powder

1 tsp

Pepper powder 

1 1/2 tblsp

Jeera powder

2 tblsp

Yogurt 

1/4 cup

Method

Wash and clean mutton pieces and then marinate it with little yogurt, turmeric and salt....Heat a pressure pan with oil and add cinnamon,cloves,cardamom and fennel seeds...

When fennel seeds splutter,add cashew pieces and fry for a minute...Then add curry leaves and dry red chillies...fry for some time..

Then add the chopped red onion  and ginger garlic paste and fry them till transparent...Now add the marinated mutton(or mutton from gravy here) and the pepper powder and jeera powder...

Mix well and let it cook for sometime in oil, partially closing the lid in medium flame...After 5 to 10 minutes add little water (just enough to partially immerse)...

Close the lid and pressure cook for 5 or 6 whistles and in low flame for 5 minutes...let the pressure release by itself and then open the cooker...

If there is some water boil and let it evaporate until it comes to semi gravy consistency...

Enjoy with hot rice and rasam...you can even nix and eat this with rice...

Wanna try these:

Mutton biriyani

Hyderabad dum biriyani

mutton gravy

Ckn Pepper Fry