Pepper Mutton Chops

Hope all of you had a wonderful weekend.Today I am going to share with you guys a non-vegetarian recipe..It is a delicious mutton recipe:"Pepper-Mutton Chops". Last 2-3 weeks we didn't get a chance to visit the halal market. Last day we went there and bought some goat mix.and the  same day I prepared this mutton dish.this one is my husband's favorite one... He likes to have it with appam or chapathi. sometimes we love to have it with bread as well. Nowadays this dish is a very common one in our menu. You can eat 5-6 appam with this chops. Really mouth-watering combo. I got this recipe idea from one of the cookery show..It's  quite different recipe.we are using curd, coconut and dried coconut for the preparation. (If u don't have dried coconut, don't worry, if you have some fresh coconut, just bake it for 10-20 minute in 300F.then that should be better to use for this recipe).The dried coconut is available in all indian groceries.(it is known as Copra).

If u have a plan to prepare this recipe buy the goat-mix (contains both bone-less and bone cuts). While buying the mutton tell them to give the mutton mix. If u try this recipe with boneless, you won't get the exact taste. (By definition Mutton chops means the mutton pieces with bones). Any meat if you prepare with bone would be more tastier than the same with boneless. The bones itself gives nice flavor to the dish.

Its a very spicy one. According to ur taste u can change the spice levels..Try it today itself and enjoy. OK, no more stories today..let me tell you how I prepared this delicious chops..

Preparation Time:30-45 minutes

Cost of the item:3.49 usd/Pound

Ingredients
Mutton chops(mutton with bones): 1 pound
Ginger : 1 medium size
Garlic: 2 pods
Green chili: 2 nos
Red Onion:2 medium size
Tomato: 1 medium size
TurmericPowder: 1 tsp
Pepper Powder: 1tsp
Garam Masala Powder: 1 tsp
Curd: 1/4 cup
Coriander leaves chopped:1/2 cup
salt : to taste
Water:2 cups
Oil: 2tbsp
For Grinding
1.Dried coconut pieces(copra)-4 medium pieces
  CousCous: 2 tbsp
2.grated Coconut: 1/2 cup
3.Peppercorn: 5 nos
Preparation
Step1: 

• Clean the mutton pieces and marinate with some salt
• Crush the ginger and garlic
• Chop the green chili
• Slice the onion into strips
• Cut the tomato into  8 pieces.
• Dilute the curd by adding 1/4 cup of water.

Make the paste of the following:

1. Dried coconut pieces and couscous
2. Grated coconut
3. Peppercorns(for grinding add some water)

Step2:

• Heat oil in a heavy bottomed pan. Add the diluted curd into the oil and let it boil for 2-3 minutes.
• Add the Sliced onion into the curd mix.saute the onions until they are golden and transparent
• Add the ginger garlic and green chili into it and saute well

Step3:

• Add the pepper paste followed by the coconut paste. saute until the oil separates.
• Add the tomatoes and chopped coriander leaves itnto the mix.saute for sometime.
• Add the Couscous-dried coconut meat mix ,stir well.
• Add 2 cups of water followed by the turmeric powder and garam masala.mix all the ingrediets together. Let the mix to boil for 3-4 minute .

Step4: 

• Add the Mutton pieces into it.Let it boil until mutton the pieces get cooked.Meantime add pepper powder and mix well.
• Reduce the heat to medium and cover  the pan with airtight lid and let the mix to boil 10-15 minutes.

The delicious Mutton chops are ready to have..Have it with Appam or chapathi or bread.

Cook's Tip

• According to your taste change the spice level.
• Slow cooking make the chops so tasty.
• Do not try to cook it in high heat.Close the pan with airtight lid and let the chops to slowly cooks in medium heat.

Three In One-Lima Beans-Dal-GreenPeas Tomato Curry

First of all i want to say a big "Thank you" to all my friends for your lovely birthday wishes.Today i am going to share with you guys a simple recipe which I used for preparing three curries. I hope that now you got the idea of the title Three in one..don't confuse with the name..It means 3 curries with a recipe but the main ingredient is different.They are: Spilt mung dal,Green peas and Lima beans. The mung Dal-tomato curry is the one I used to prepare for chapati and rice. But when i tried the same recipe with lima beans/Butter bean( always prefer to use the Lima beans for veg-fried rice and veg kurma.)and green peas it came out nicely and we really liked the curries. Nowadays I got 2 more vegggie varieties in our menu. The best thing is that it is very simple and good combo with rice and chapathi. I think sometimes our trial will end up with  new dish to our daily menu.
Don't forget to try this dishes sure u will love all these. Let me explain how we can prepare this simple and delicious curries:

1.Lima Beans-Tomato curry
Ingredients
Lima beans: 1 cup
Oil: 1 tsp
Green chili: 2 nos
Garlic : 2 pods
Ginger: medium size
Onion: 1 small
Tomato: 2 small
Ground cumin :1/2 tsp
Turmeric Powder: 1/2 tsp
Chili Powder: 2 tsp
Coriander Powder: 1 tsp
Garam Masala:1 tsp
Kasoori methi:1/2 tsp
Water: enough
Salt: to taste
Coriander Leaves:some
Preparation
Step1: 

• Cook the Lima beans in a pressure cooker with 1/2 cup of water until one whistle. Do not over cook. Add salt to taste
• Crush ginger and Garlic.
• Cut the green chili into small pieces
• Cut the tomato into 8 pieces
• Dice the onion into small pieces

Step2:

• Heat the oil in a pan.Add green chili and crushed Ginger garlic.saute for sometime.
• Add the diced onion and saute well.
• Add the tomato pieces into it..stir well ..

Step3: 

• Once the tomatoes are well cooked add the Turemric powder followed by Chili poswder,coriander powder and garam masala.Mix well.

Step4: 

• Add the cooked Lima beans into it.
• Add the Kasoori methi, ground cumin,coriander leaves and salt into the mix.
• Saute well and then add 1-11/2 cups of water.
• Close the pan and let the mix to cook for 5-10 minutes in medium heat.

The Delicious Lima beans Tomato currry is ready to have..very good combo with Rice and Chapati..

2.Dal-Tomato curry

 
Ingredients
Use the Split mung dal 1/2 cup 

rest of the ingredients are same as above.
Preparation

• In step1 cook the Dal with 1 cup of water  in a pressure cooker for 2 whistle or until well cooked.Add salt to taste.

• Follow Step2 & 3 as described above

• In Step4 add the cooked Dal and rest is same as above.

3.Green Peas-Tomato Curry

 
Ingredients
Use the Green Peas  1/2 cup .(soak it Overnight)
rest of the ingredients are same as above.
Preparation

• In step1cook the green peas with 1 cup of water  in a pressure cooker for 2 whistle or until well cooked.Add salt to taste.
• Follow Step2 & 3 as described above
• In Step4 add the cooked Green peas  and cook as per the above recipe.

Cook's Tip

• Do not overcook Green peas and Lima beans .
• According to your taste change the quantity of masala
• If u need more gravy add more water at Step4.

Enjoy the Delicious curries..

Sending this to sara's My legume love affair 23. and also to Cooking with seeds -Cumin seeds event hosted by Sara and the event started by Priya.