Easy Meat Curry

Ingredients for Easy Meat Curry:

1. Chicken/Mutton 1 kg – Breast pieces/1 big piece
2. Crushed chillies – 3 small spoons
   Kashmiri chilli powder – 1.5 small spoons
   Turmeric powder – ½ small spoon
   Pepper crushed – 1 small spoon
   Cumin – 1 small spoon
   Fennel seeds – 1 big spoon
   Cinnamon – 2 pieces
   Cardamom, cloves – 3 each
   Mace – 1
   Star anise – 1
3. Vinegar – 1/4 cup
4. Coconut oil – 2 big spoons
5. Onion – 2, chopped fine
   Shallots chopped – 1 cup
   Curry leaves – As needed
   Green chillies – 3
6. Salt – As needed
   Sugar – A pinch
7. Roasted potato, carrot, broccoli – To garnish

How to prepare Easy Meat Curry?

1. Soak ingredients no: 2 in vinegar for 10 minutes and make a paste.
2. Marinate chicken/mutton pieces using half of this paste.
3. Heat a little oil and fry the marinated piece.
4. Fry till it turns golden brown.
5. Heat oil in a pan and sauté ingredients no: 5.
6. Add the remaining gravy, along with salt and sugar and sauté again.
7. Add a meat piece, mix well and transfer the contents to a pressure cooker.
8.  Cook the meat till it’s done.
9. Remove the meat piece and boil the gravy on a low flame.
10. Slice the meat pieces and add them back to the gravy.
11. Decorate your chicken/mutton curry with roasted ingredients no: 7.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine, April 1-14, 2023

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