Easy Mutton/ Lamb curry kerala stye

Ingredients:

Mutton - 1 kg with bones
Onion- 4 medium sized
Ginger - 1 tablespoon (chopped)
Garlic- 1 tablespoon (chopped)
Curry leaves- 4 springs

For Marinating:

Garlic - 3 cloves
Ginger- Same amount as garlic
Mutton masala- 1 tablespoon

For Dry Roasting:

Red chilli powder (I used Kashmiri chilli powder) - 2 tablespoon
Coriander powder- 2 Tablespoon

For Home made masala powder:

Fennel Seeds- 2 tablespoon
Cardamom- 3
Cinnamon stick- 1 inch long piece
Star Anise-1/2
Cloves- 4
Mace/ Jathipathri- 1

Preparation:

The key ingredient in this recipe is the raw home made masala. Yes. I said raw masala. Just put all ingredients for the home made masala in the mixer grinder and make a fine powder. You can keep this in an air tight container but make sure you use it within few days.

Dry roast chilli powder and coriander powder in a non-stick pan and dry roast until the raw smell disappear. make sure not sure not to burn the powder.

Wash mutton very well and mix with some turmeric powder and salt . Leave it for 5 minutes and wash again. crush ginger and garlic with a pestle and porter. Add this to the washed mutton pieces and then add the mutton powder. Transfer this to the pressure cooker and gently cook up to 2 whistles.

Sauté onion in a non-stick pan and keep this aside.

In a separate pan, add some oil and sauté chopped ginger and garlic and curry leaves.. Add dry roast masala to this and then add the cooked mutton pieces (without water). Sauté everything very well until the masala get coat to the mutton pieces. Now add the water (gravy) was remaining on the pressure cooker. Give everything a good mix again and close the lid. Cook in a medium flame for about 10 minutes and open the lid and add the cooked onions and curry leaves. Top up with boiled water if needed. Cook for further 10 minutes and then add the home made masala. Switch off the flame and enjoy hot.

Dry Beef Fry/ Unakka erachi chathachathu

Dry beef is fairly a new dish for me as we don't have it in Trivandrum. One of my friend introduced me to this exceptionally tasty dish and now I am a big fan of it. Not to mention my hubby.
Dry beef chathachathu is a great comfort food which goes very well with kanji.

 Ingredients:

Unakka beef- 10 pieces

Chilli powder- 1/2 teaspoon

Dry chillies- 5

Bird eye chillies/ kanthari mulaku- 5

Shallots- 10

Garlic- 3 cloves

Curry leaves- 1 spring

Oil- to fry

 

Preparation:

Soak dry beef in cold water for about 1/2 an hour just to make it a bit tender. Wash very well and marinate in chilli powder. Shallow fry beef on a low flame for about 5 minutes and remove from oil. Sauté all other ingredients in the same oil for few minutes. (you can substitute bird eye chillies to green chillies or dry chillies.).

 

Transfer all ingredients to a mixer grinder and crush on the pulse mode. Your unakka irachi is ready to be served.

Beef Barbeque Kerala Style

We are enjoying a well deserved beautiful summer here in UK this year. BBQ and summer goes hand in hand in UK. Last weekend of ours  ended up with an amazing bbq at our friends place. The social gathering and talk around Kerala politics given some extra spice to the bbq party.

Here is my contribution for the bbq.

Ingredients:

Beef steaks- 1 kg (thinly sliced beef brought from Tesco)

For the marinade:

Black pepper- 1 tablespoon
Dried Red chillies- 10 nos
Bird eye chiliies (kanthari mulaku)- 5 (according to heat tolerance)
Shallots (small onions)- 5 nos
Ginger garlic paste- 1 tablespoon
Fennel seeds- 1 teaspoon
Garam masala- 1 teaspoon
Salt- to taste
Oil- 1teaspoon

Preparation:

Wash beef and use a fork to make holes all over the steak and keep aside. Put all ingredients for marinade in a food processor and grind very well into a fine paste. Mix the marinade with the beef steaks and  put it in a freezer bag and refrigerate overnight.

 

The beef is ready for the bbq grill. I want to apologise you for not posting a picture after the bbq was actually done. I will definitely get one next time. Hopefully next year!!!! or you pray for the weather to stay like this for at least two more months!!!!!!!