Amma's Dalcha

Ingredients

Grinded nuts - Almonds, cashew nuts and 6 candlenuts
Mutton pieces
Ginger garlic
Water
Salt
Toor dhal - 2 cups
Potato pieces
1 tsp fennel seeds
2 cinnamon sticks broken into 4 pieces
4 staranise broken into halves
2 onions diced
1 bay leaf
Curry leaves
Masala Mix - Fish masala, ginger garlic 1 tsp and water
1 tomato diced
2 tsp salt

Method:

1) In a heavy bottom vessel, add mutton pieces, ginger garlic, water and some salt and cook the mutton until the pieces become almost tender for about 45 minutes.
2) Once the mutton is cooked, add toor dhal and potato pieces. Cook until the dhal and potato becomes soft and tender.
3) In a separate pan, add fennel seeds, cinnamon sticks, staranise, onion, bay leaf and saute well.
4) Add the masala mix and grinded nuts.
5) Add tomato piecesand saute well until the smell of the raw masala mix disappears.
6) Add the 5) mixture into mutton mixture 2).Add 2 tsp salt and let the entire mixture be cooked for 15 minutes.

 

Amma's Mutton Pirattal

Ingredients:
1 kg mutton
1 onion diced
3 onions grinded
Curry leaves
1 tsp fennel seeds
1 cinnamon stick
4 pieces of starnise
1 bay leaf
Masala mix - 5 tb Baba's mutton masala, 2 tb Baba's fish masala, 1 tb ginger garlic paste and some
                      water.
Grinded nuts - Cashew nuts, almonds and 6 candle  nuts
2 diced tomatoes
White pepper
Coriander leaves
Salt

Method:

1) In a heavy bottom vessel, add pieces of mutton, 1 tsp ginger garlic, some water , 1 tsp salt and cook the mutton for 45 min to 1 hr until the mutton becomes soft.
2) In a pan, add 1 diced onion, curry leaves and saute well.
3) Add  3tb grinded onion
4) Add 1 tsp fennel seeds, 1 cinnamon stick (broken into 4 pieces) and 4 staranise (broken into halves), and 1 bayleaf and saute well.
5) Add the  masala mix to the spice mix and saute well.
6) Add grinded nuts and saute well. Make sure the masala mix don t gets stick to the pan. If it sticks to the pan, add more oil.
7) Add 2 tsp salt and continue sauting. Saute until the raw masala smell goes away for abt 10 min.
8) When the masala mix changes colour , add 2 diced tomatoes and cooked mutton.
9) Add 1/2 tsp salt and white pepper and let the entire mutton pieces be cooked for another 15- 20 minutes.
10) Garnish the mutton with coriander leaves before serving.