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Pepper Mutton/Chicken Fry Recipe

This is a traditional recipe from southern parts of Tamil Nadu. It is simple to cook and tastes very good. Goes very well with sambar rice, rasam rice etc. Chapati lovers can eat it their rotis and parathas too.

A very good variant to this dish is using chicken instead of mutton and when jeera and pepper powder portion is increased decreasing the no of red chillies, the dish when can give a soothing effect to those who suffer from cold and throat infection.

Mutton/Chicken – 250 gm

Red Chilli – 2 or 3

Onion – 1 big

Pepper– 1 to 1½  teaspoon

Jeera – 1 to 1½  teaspoon

(Pepper and Jeera coarsely ground)

Salt – as per taste

Oil – as needed

  1. Heat oil in a pressure pan or cooker. Add onion and red chillies and fry them till the onions are cooked well and appear translucent.
  2. Add the mutton pieces , salt and a little portion of coarsely ground pepper and cumin and mix and cook them for a few minutes.
  3. Add water and close the cooker with its lid and leave it for good 4-5 whistles or till when you know the mutton will be 90% cooked.Take care not to add too much water, just what is needed to cook the mutton will do.
  4. Remove the lid and transfer the mutton contents to a kadai.
  5. Put the kadai on the lighted stove, and add the remaining jeera and pepper powder. Also, check for salt.
  6. Let them all blend well together and cook in a sim or medium flame until the mutton is well cooked. If needed , add a little more water. Leave the contents on the stove cooking in a simmer flame until the consistency you want the dish to be.
  7. Normally, the dish tastes best when it is almost dry and with a little percentage of wet masala stuck to it.

 

I scrape out the masala from the sides of the vessel and mix it with hot rice. Oh My! It just tastes yummmmmmy! J and when mother does that it tastes much more yummier! 🙂

 

PS:

  1. The above recipe can be made a little gravy like semi solid by adding a small tomato while cooking mutton in the pressure cooker.
  2. You can add cubed potatoes while cooking mutton in the pressure cooker. Surprisingly, braod beans can also be added and tastes better than potatoes. Add one at a time and enjoy the taste variation it gives.
  3. You can add coconut pieces just when you cook the mutton and masala in the kadai.

The vegetables and these coconut pieces taste super good. 🙂

 

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