Jyothi

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Preparation Time: 30mts Cooking Time: 45mts Total Time: 0 mins 4

Ingredients

500 gms long grained rice (basmati)
Mutton cut into small pieces 1kg.
2 tsp garam masala
6 red chillies
a handful of cashewnuts (kaju)
5 onions, sliced and fried
2 cloves (laung / lavang)
2 sticks of cinnamon (dalchini)
3 cardamoms (elaichi)
6 green chillies
1 small bunch of coriander (dhania), chopped
1 bunch of mint leaves (phudina), chopped
3 tsp ginger-garlic (adrak-lehsun) paste
2 pinches of saffron (kesar) strands (dissolved in ¾ cup milk)
1 cup beaten curds (dahi)
2 tbsp lemon juice
4 eggs, boiled
5 tbsp ghee or oil
salt to taste

Method

Grind the red chilies and cashewnuts to a fine paste.
To the mutton apply the ginger - garlic paste and beaten curd. set aside.
Heat 4 tablespoons ghee and fry the red chili masala.
Add the marinated mutton, ¼ of the fried onion, one teaspoon garam masala and salt to taste.
Keep frying till ghee separates.
Add 1½ cups warm water. pressure cook till tender.
Heat dekchi, add 1 tbsp ghee and fry the sabut masala.
Add the rice and fry a little. add the green chilies and salt to taste.
Add enough warm water. cook till rice is done, remove and spread on a thali, discarding the whole masala.
Mix together the chopped kothmir, pudina, garam masala and fried onion.
Set aside.
Take a heavy bottlomed dekchi and line it with ghee.
Spread a layer of rice and cover it with half of the mutton. sprinkle half of the pudina / kothmir mixture and juice of 1 lime.
Cover with rice, followed by a mutton layer. finish with a rice layer.
Sprinkle the rice with saffron milk and dot with ghee.
Cover tightly and place over a griddle for dum for 20 minutes. serve hot, garnished with eggs cut into halves.

This recipe was contributed by jyothiv on 18 May 2002

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