Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, bengali mutton curry. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Bengali Mutton Curry or as we lovingly call it Mangshor Jhol is an age-old delicacy where mutton pieces cooked with large sized potato chunks in a spicy, hot curry. This is the most Simple way to cook mutton curry in a pressure cooker without any marination. Mangshor Jhol (Bengali light Mutton curry) in a Pressure Cooker!
Bengali Mutton Curry is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Bengali Mutton Curry is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have bengali mutton curry using 27 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Bengali Mutton Curry:
- Prepare For marinade
- Take 1 tsp cumin powder
- Make ready 1/2 tbsp turmeric powder
- Take 1/2 tbsp red chilli powder
- Get 1/2 cup kefir or smoothly whipped yoghurt
- Take to taste Salt
- Take 1 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
- Get 1/2 kilo mutton shank
- Make ready For the curry
- Get Mustard oil
- Take 5 dry bay leaves
- Get 3 dry red chillies
- Prepare 2 medium onions, sliced as thinly as possible
- Prepare 1/2 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
- Prepare 5 cardamom pods
- Take 5 cloves
- Get 1 inch cinnamon stick
- Get 3/4 tsp coriander seed powder
- Make ready Green chilli paste made from 3 or 4 Thai chillies
- Take 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Take 1/2 tsp red chilli powder
- Take 2 potatoes
- Make ready 2 litres hot water
- Take to taste Salt
- Prepare Pinch garam masala powder
- Take 1/2 tsp ghee
- Prepare 2 tbsp yoghurt or 1/4 cup kefir
Though I am not much of a mutton loving person, just thought of preparing it. With a little help from mom, the preparation turned out well. The authentic Bengali recipe for mutton curry calls for mustard oil but its perfectly okay to use any vegetable oil. Another feature of Bengali recipes is that they use potatoes in their biryani, fish curry.
Instructions to make Bengali Mutton Curry:
- Marinate the meat for at least 2 hours - overnight is best, with salt, turmeric, chilli powder, cumin powder, ginger-garlic paste, yoghurt, and mustard oil.
- Pour enough mustard oil in a pan to create a 1 centimetre layer. Heat on medium till just barely smoking, and oil’s colour lightens to pale yellow. Add bay leaves, dry chillies, cloves, cardamom pods, and cinnamon stick.
- Fry onions till medium brown, but they shouldn’t be crispy. Add ginger-garlic paste, and fry for a minute.
- Tilt the pan and gather the oil to one side, and add the turmeric and chilli powder, fry for a few seconds and then mix everything together.
- Add green chilli paste and coriander powder and then mix well.
- Turn heat to low, let pan cool for 30 seconds to a minute, add yoghurt/kefir and stir vigorously to prevent it from splitting.
- Add the meat and sauté till slightly browned.
- Add the hot water, bring it down to a simmer, and simmer from 1 hour 45 minutes to 2 hours.
- Add ghee and garam masala, stir, and remove from the flame.
Bengalis, people from the Indian state of West Bengal and Bangladesh There is one radical oddity that unites the cooks in the east and west - the niramish maangsho or "vegetarian" mutton curry, a. The Bengali Mutton Curry made with Goat meat is synonymous with Sundays and daytime naps. Those days mutton curry used to enjoy it's cult status in Bengali livelihood. It was 'THE' dish which was must for each and every Bengali party. and in almost all Bengali families it was synonymous to. This Bengali style mutton curry is a complete bliss.
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