Mutton Masala

I have stayed mostly in northern part of India ,

We used to stay in community where everyone's

houses were very close by. You can say it was like a township which was constucted by a government company for their employees. you can find families from all part of india in our community.To our left was banerjee uncle's home and to our right was gurpaal singh.During kali puja Banerjee uncle's wife would bring rosogulla and prasad in a plate to our home and during lohri we will get a plate full of "tilkut" gajjak and pakoras from Gurpreet uncle.

Our moms would assemble at one person's home during evenings and we kids would play in yard .

let me not get carried away with those old memories.

During kali puja mutton will be prepared in almost all houses in our

community. We kids would go from one house to another

tasting good food :)

Here is the reciepe for motton masala

Ingredients:

Mutton (cut into pieces)- 1/2 kg

Bay leaves -3

mustard seeds -1/2 tsp

Onion - 2 big chopped

tomato 1 chopped

Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

Ginger-garlic paste - 2 tbsp

red chillies powder - 1 tsp

tspGaram masala - 1 tsp

coriander powder 2 tsp

cumin powder 1/2 tsp

Coriander leaves

cooking oil -1/4 cup

salt (according to taste)

Preparation:

put oil in a heavy bottom pan and when it heats up, put mustard seeds. When mustard seeds stop splattering add chopped onions and fry till its golden colour.Now add the ginger and garlic pastes and stir well.Add all the other masalas and fry for 2 minutes (make sure it doesnt burn, you can make a paste of rest of the masalas with water and then add it to fried onions). Now add chopped tomato and fry till its soft. Add mutton to it and cook till its done(i usually cook mutton in cooker). Garnish with coriander leaves.