Andhra Mutton Pepper Fry

Ingredients

• Mutton -1/2 kg
• Onion - 200 gms
• Tomato - 100 gms
• Ginger - Garlic paste - 1 tsp
• Turmeric powder a pinch
• Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
• Pepper powder - 2 tsp
• Salt to taste
• Curry leaves
• Coriander leaves
• Oil for cooking

For dry roast

• Poppy seeds - 1 tsp
• Fennel seed 1/2 tsp
• Pepper corns - 4 nos
• Coriander Seeds - 1 tsp
• Cumin 1 tsp
• cinnamon - 1 small piece
• cloves - 2
• cardamom - 2

Method

1. Wash and pressure cook Mutton pieces with 2 cups of water, salt and turmeric. Drain the cooked mutton from water and keep the water aside.
2. Chop Onions, Tomatoes. Keep aside
3. Take a Kadai, dry roast all the masala. Once cool, grind to a fine powder.
4. Then heat Oil, add curry leaves. Then add onions. Sauté till the onions are brown. then add ginger garlic paste. cook well. Then add tomatoes and mutton pieces, cook on high flame till the tomatoes are soft.
5. Then add the ground masala and sim for 5 mins, then add the water and bring to boil. Cook on high flame until the water evaporates leaving a nice thick gravy. Now fry the pieces until oil comes out. Once the water is completely gone, each piece gets a nice coating around it. In the end, add the remaining pepper powder over the pieces and stir it well.
6. Finally garnish with finally chopped coriander leaves and with lemon, onions.