Oriya Mutton Curry

Oriya Mansa Jhola

Ingredients:

~ 1 kg mutton

~ 3 tbsp Mustard Oil

~ 3 medium sized onions

~ 8 -10 cloves of garlic minced

~ 1” ginger minced

~ 1 bay leaf

~ ½” cinnamon stick

~ 3 cloves

~ 1 tsp cinnamon powder

~ 1 tsp meat Masala

~ ½ tsp sugar

~ Salt to taste

~ ¼ tsp Haldi (turmeric)

~ ½ tsp red-chilli powder

~ 1 small tomato pureed

~ 1 dry red chilly

Method:

~ Marinate the mutton with 1 tsp turmeric powder, ½ tsp salt and keep aside

~ Make a smooth paste of onion, ginger and garlic

~ Heat up oil in wok  .

~ Add a dry red chilly, cinnamon stick, cloves and bay-leaf

~ Add sugar to it

~ Add the onion paste and cook it till translucent.

~ Add ginger-garlic paste and cook it well

~ Add turmeric, meat masala, red chilly powder and salt

~ When the above paste starts to leave oil, add the tomato puree and roast well

~ Add the marinated mutton at this point and stir well so tht the masala blends in with the mutton.

~ Add cinnamon powder to the mutton

~ Cook the mutton on medium heat with occasionally stirring till oil starts to separate .

~ Transfer the above mixture to a pressure cooker and add water till it covers the mutton.

~ Cook it till one whistle, then lower the flame to low and let it cook for another two whistles.

~ Open the cooker only when the pressure settles down .