Mutton Ghugni (Bengali: Mangsher Ghugni) is a delicious street food popular in Kolkata. Bite-sized boneless mutton dish is slow cooked with white peas. This dish is eaten with any type of bread, like luchi, pav, roti and paratha.
250g Mutton | boneless, small cubes
1 cup White Pea
STEP1
Wash and soak in water the white peas for 12 hours. Drain off water and keep aside.
STEP 2
Make a cooking paste using:
8 Garlic cloves
1½” Ginger
4 Green Chilies
4 Cardamom (green, only seeds)
4 Clove
½ tsp Poppy Seed
1½ tsp chef’s secret super spice
Little water—to whip up paste
Place cooker on low heat, add 6 Tbs oil, 1 tsp sugar, 1 tsp cumin seed, and 2 cassia leaves. When the cumin starts to crackle, raise heat, add 150g onions (chopped fine) and fry till golden brown. Add the cooking paste and cook for 1 minute. Add 150g tomato and cook till the oil starts to separate, stir intermittently. Add the mutton pieces and stir fry for 2 minutes. Add the soaked white peas, ½ tsp turmeric, salt (to taste), 1 cup mutton stock and 2 cup water. Mix well. Pressure cook at highest heat for 1 whistle; then at lowest for 30 minutes. Open cooker, add 1 Tbs tamarind water, stir the contents well. Adjust gravy—should not be dry or watery. Garnish servings with chopped green chili, chopped onion and a drizzle of tamarind water or lime juice.
If you liked Mutton Ghugni, you may also like:
• Zafrani Dal Gosht
• Mutton Paya Masala
• Pepper Mutton Frychef’s secret super spice brings out the natural flavor of the meats and vegetables in your recipes; not just the taste of spices. Use this masala and make delicious, meat, sea-food, vegetable, paneer, egg, and dal dishes. For example you can use chef’s secret super spice to prepare: Chicken Saagwala, (Chicken in thick palak gravy), Mutton Ghugni (Mutton slow cooked with white peas), Dal Gosth (Mutton in lentil gravy), Pumpkin Rogan Josh (Pumpkin cooked in red gravy), Navratan Korma (Nine gems of vegetarian cooking in sweetish gravy), Vermicelli Upma (South Indian snack made with vermicelli), Dal Tadka (Tempered boiled lentils) and more.
INGREDIENTS: Cumin Seed, Coriander Seed, Cassava-starch, Mustard Seed, Star Anise, Sesame Seed, Garlic, Ginger, Onion, Turmeric, Cashew-nut, Melon Seed, Ajwoin Seed, Dill Seed, Fennel Seed, Clove, Cardamom, Cinnamon, Caraway Seed, Black Cumin Seed, Black Pepper, Brown Sugar, Raw Mango, Himalayan Salt, Poppy Seed (khus-khus), Fenugreek Seed, Cubeb Pepper (kabab chini), Cassia Bud, Sichuan Pepper, Mace, and Nutmeg.
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