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Clean
and cut mutton into big pieces. Wash and drain well.
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Wash and
soak rice. Slice onions finely, grind ginger, garlic and green chillies to a fine paste.
Whisk yoghurt.
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Apply a
little oil and papaya paste to the mutton and keep aside for 1 hour.
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Marinade
the mutton with yoghurt, ginger/garlic/green chilli paste, chilli powder, garam masala
powder, turmeric, lemon juice, chopped coriander & mint leaves and salt.
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Heat
some ghee and fry sliced onions to a golden colour, remove onions from ghee onto a
clean kitchen paper, when cool, crush coarsely and add along with hot ghee to the
meat & marination mixture. Allow to marinade for about another hour.
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Bring to
boil about a litre & half of water, put in the whole garam masala and simmer for a few
minutes. Drain the rice and blanch in boiling water till less than half done, drain.
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Put the
meat mixture in a thick bottomed pan and cover with blanched rice. Sprinkle saffron soaked
in milk, balance of the clarified butter onto the rice, cover the pan with a tight fitting
lid and seal the edges with dough.
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Cook on
high flame for 15 minutes and then simmer on slow fire for 15 minutes. Remove from fire,
put few live coal on the lid and bake for ten minutes.
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When
done serve hot, garnished with fried onions, cashewnuts, almonds and sultanas.
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