Spicy Lamb dry fry / Mutton chukka/ Uppukari

Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 45 minutes.

Ingredients:
1 lb / 450 grams mutton
1 medium, chopped onion
1 small tomato, chopped
2  green chilies, split in to two
2"inch ginger, crushed
8 ~ 10 cloves crushed garlic or 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
2 tbsp of minced cilantro
Salt to taste
1 ½ cups of water

¼ tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp red chili powder or to taste & 2 tsp coriander powder (or)
2 tsp kuzhambu milagai thool or to taste
½ tsp garam masala powder
¼ tsp pepper powder or to taste

For Seasoning
1 tbsp + 2tsp oil
1 tsp fennel seed
Curry leaves as required

Method:

Preparation:

• Clean, wash and cut mutton in to pieces.
• Chop onion, tomato, chilies and keep it aside.

Cooking:

• Heat oil in a pressure pan, add fennel seed or fennel powder, allow it to splutter.
• Throw in curry leaves, green chilies and chopped onion.  Saute till onion turn transparent and soft.
• Add mutton pieces and saute for a minutes. then add crushed ginger and garlic.
• Fry it for another minute. Now add chopped tomato, turmeric powder, kuzhambu milagai thool and salt. Mix well.
• Add required amount of water and close the pressure pan with it lid.
• Cook it in medium heat for 3~4 whistle or more as needed and turn off the heat.
• After 10 minutes, open pressure pan lid.
• Add pepper powder and minced cilantro.
• Adjust spice and salt to your taste.
• Cook mutton in medium heat till it become dry.
• Serve hot with sambar or rasam rice..