Ayesha's Kitchen

One of the famous dishes in Pakistan Home Cooking, mostly cooked with mutton (goat meat)…….

Ayesha’s Kitchen

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ kg meat (lamb, beef or mutton)
• 1 cup oil
• 1 tbspn nigella seeds
• 1 tbspn fennel seeds
• 1 tspn cumin seeds
• 1 tspn garam masala
• 6 – 10 curry leaves
• 4 – 8 bird eye chilli or dried red chillies
• Salt to taste
• 2 tbspns Grated fresh ginger
• 1 tspn crushed red chilli
• 1 tbspn dried fenugreek leaves
• 1 tspn fenugreek seeds
• 2 onion sliced
• 4 cups water
• 1 cup yogurt

Procedure:

-In a pressure cooker, combine meat, salt, onion, water, 1 tbspn grated ginger and fenugreek seeds.

-Pressure cook for 3 whistles or until the meat is ¾th tender.

-Cook uncovered on high heat and let the water dry. Leave about 1 cup of stock in the meat.

-Now in a separate pan, heat oil and fry onion and ginger until they are brown and crunchy. Now add meat and yogurt and cook on medium flame.

-Add stock and let the meat fully cook. Now add all the spices and cook with constant stirring until the oil starts to separate. Now add curry leaves and dry red whole chillies and cook for anoter 5 minutes.

-Serve hot with home-made chapattis or kandhari naan.

Achar Gosht is one of the favourite dishes of Pakistan especially on Eid Ul Adha. The smell and aroma of nigella seeds and curry leaves give it a tempting flavour ….

Ayesha’s Kitchen

Ingredients:

• 1 kg boneless mutton/ 1 kg mutton chops/ 1 kg mutton pcs.
• Some salt
• 2 onion sliced
• 1 tbspn minced ginger
• 1 tspn garlic paste
• ¾ cup oil
• 4 curry leaves
• 4 dried red chillies
• Some methi seeds
• 1 tspn fennel seeds
• 1 tspn nigella seeds
• 1 tspn cumin seeds
• 2 green chillies
• Some red chilli powder
• ½ tspn turmeric
• 1 cup chopped coriander
• Some water
• 1 tspn fenugreek leaves
• 1 black cardamom
• 2 cups of yogurt

Procedure:

-In a pressure cooker combine meat, methi seeds, garlic, onion, salt and cardamom. Add water and pressure cook for about 5 whistles or until the meat is tender. Carefully remove the pressure cooker and cook on high heat until it’s dry.

-If you are not using a pressure cooker, combine everything in a vessel and boil until the meat is tender.

-Add oil, ginger and all the spices. Mix and add yogurt.

-Cook for 10 minutes on medium heat and add green chillies, curry leaves and coriander. Cook for another 5 minutes serve hot with homemade chapattis.