Mutta Surka and Mutton Curry

Mutta Surka

Ingredients for Mutta Surka (Egg Surka):

1. Parboiled rice (Puzhungalari) – 1 cup

2. Eggs – 2

3. Salt – For taste

4. Oil – For frying

How to prepare Mutta Surka (Egg Surka)?

1. Wash rice and soak it overnight.

2. Next morning, grind it to a batter, adding no or very little quantity of water.

3. After grinding it to a fine paste, add eggs and blend once for a second in the mixer.

4. Add salt and stir the batter well.

5. Heat the oil and pour one big spoon of batter.

6. Deep fry your Surkas till both sides turn golden brown. Both sides should be fried well.

Note: When you pour batter in hot oil, it should rise like a bubble or form bubbles on its surface before you flip it over. You can serve it with any non-vegetarian curry of your choice.

Mutton Curry

Ingredients for Mutton Curry:

1. Mutton – ½ kg

2. Cashews – 25 gm

    Coconut grated – 1 big spoon

    Cloves – 2

    Cinnamon – 1 piece

    Cardamom – 2

3. Oil – 2 big spoons

4. Onions chopped – 2 cups

    Curry leaves – 2 stalks

5. Garlic paste – 1 big spoon

    Ginger paste – 1.5 small spoons

    Green chillies – 4, chopped

    Tomatoes chopped fine – ½ cup

    Kashmiri chilli powder – 2 or 3 small spoons

    Coriander powder – 1 big spoon

    Pepper powder – ¼ small spoon

7. Water – ½ cup

8. Salt – For taste

9. Ghee – 1 small spoon

10. Coriander leaves – To decorate

How to prepare Mutton Curry?

1. Clean the mutton and cut it into pieces.

2. Mix together ingredients no: 2 and make a fine paste using a mixer.

3. Heat oil in a cooker and sauté onions and curry leaves.

4. When it turns golden brown, add ingredients no: 5 and sauté well.

5. Add ingredients no: 6, reduce to low flame and sauté again.

6. When the raw smell goes out, add mutton, salt and water and mix well.

7. Close the cooker lid and cook on high flame till the first whistle.

8. Reduce the flame and cook for 10 more minutes.

9. Put off the flame and allow the pressure to drop to zero.

10. Open the lid and add cashew paste.

11. Boil for 5 more minutes.

12. Add ghee and coriander leaves and turn off the flame.

13. Serve hot with Surka.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine July 15-31, 2015 

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