Chettinad Mutton Masala / Attu Kari Masala – pressure cooker method.

Chettinad Mutton Masala

This is my grandma’s famous dish and it’s a favorite mutton dish among our family members and relatives. Unlike Mutton fry this Mutton masala is semi-dry gravy made with coconut paste, goes excellent with Kal dosa, Idiyappam and even Parotta. You can mix this mutton masala to steamed rice and take it in lunchbox, but I bet your colleagues or friends will finish this before you get a spoon.

Ingredients

Goat / Mutton pieces with bone – 500 gms

Onion chopped – 2 numbers

Tomato chopped – 1 number

Ginger and Garlic paste – 2 tsp

Curry leaves – few

Red chilli powder – 1.5 tsp

Coriander powder – 4 tsp

Pepper powder – ½ tsp

Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp

Salt as required

Ingredients for Coconut paste

Freshly grated coconut – ¼ cup

Fennel seeds – 2 tsp

Roasted poppy seeds – 1 tsp

Ingredients for tempering

Oil – 4 tbsp

Bay leaf – 2

Fennel seeds – 1 tsp

Cloves – 5 numbers

Cardamom – 4 numbers

Cinnamon stick – 2”inch

Dried red chilli – 2 numbers

Method

     1.Clean and chop mutton into desired pieces.

     2. In a large bowl add chopped mutton, half of chopped onion, chopped tomato, half of curry leaves, ginger and garlic paste, red chilli powder, pepper powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and half cup of water.  Mix well everything and allow mutton to marinate for at least ½ an hour.

     3.Add the marinated ingredients to a bowl, place inside a pressure cooker and pressure cook for 15 mins or until mutton is 3/4^th cooked. Remove cooked mutton from pressure cooker.

     4.Heat oil in a pan, when hot add the whole garam masalas and fry till aroma rises, next add rest of the onions and curry leaves to the pan and sauté for a minute.

     5.Add the pressure cooked mutton along with its gravy, ground coconut paste and salt to the pan, bring everything to boil and stir fry until mutton is semi- dry on high heat.

     6.Serve hot Mutton Masala with Steamed Rice or Chapati or Idiyappam or Parotta.

Chettinad Kari Masala