Kashmiri Mutanjan
| Serves: |
4 |
| Recipe Type: |
Non Veg. |
| Preparation Time: |
20 M |
| Cooking Time: |
60 M |
| Difficulty: |
Difficult |
Ingredients:
- 250 g Rice
- 500 g Lamb (cubed)
- 2 large Onions (quartered)
- 2 piece Cinnamon Sticks
- 12 Cloves
- 12 Peppercorns
- 6-7 Cardamoms
- ½ tsp Coriander Powder
- 2 tbsp Sugar
- 1 tsp Lemon (juice)
- 1 tsp Almonds, crushed
- ½ tsp Saffron (soaked in 1/4 tbsp milk)
- 4 tbsp Ghee
- Salt, to taste
Cooking Instructions:
- Take a medium sized bowl and add onions, cinnamon, cloves, 8 peppercorns, 4 cardamoms, and coriander in it. Now, take a clean cotton cloth and tie all the above ingredients to make a potli. Keep it aside.
- Now, heat a pan and put the potli prepared along with lamb, salt and enough water to cover it. Cook it till the water is reduced to half and let it cool a bit.
- Remove the potli and squeeze out the flavor in the pan itself.
- Add sugar and lemon juice in the same pan and cook it till it gets syrupy and glazy. Keep it aside.
- Take another deep pan and boil rice in water with the other left spices and some salt. Cook till the rice is half done and then drain out the water.
- Take a casserole and grease it. Now, arrange a layer of rice, then the lamb and again the layer of remaining rice.
- Pour saffron milk over top, sprinkle crushed almonds over it, cover it tightly and let it bake at 350 F for 30 to 35 minutes.
- Serve hot.
