Zafrani Bagdadi Gosht

Zafrani Bagdadi Gosht

Ingredients

Mutton (meat) ½ kg
Onion ( payaz), cut into thick pieces 1 cup
Thick curd (dahi) ¾ cup
Garlic (lahsan) 1 tea spoon
Ginger (adrakh) 1 tea spoon
Green coriander (hara dhaniya) chopped 4 table spoon
Green chillies (hari mirch) chopped 2 table spoon
Red chilli (lal mirch) powder ½ tea spoon
Salt (namak) to taste
Saffron (kesar) few strands
Clarified butter (ghee) 4-5 table spoon
Vegetable oil (tel) for frying onion

Spices to grind

Caraway seeds (shahi jeera) ½ tea spoon
Green cardamom (chhoti elaichi) 5-6
Cinnamon (dal chini) 1” piece
Mace (javitri) ¼ tea spoon
Roasted gram (bhuna chana) 1 tea spoon
Cashew nuts (kaju) 2 table spoon
Poppy seeds (posta) 1 table spoon
Desiccated coconut (nariyel ka chura) 2 table spoon

Instructions

  1. Take grinding spices in a blender jar and make a smooth paste of it.
  2. Take curd in a big bowl; add garlic, ginger, green chillies, green coriander, red chilli and mix well.
  3. Add mutton in this mixture and keep it aside for 4-5 hours.
  4. Heat oil in a pan and fry onions in it. Once it becomes golden remove it from flame and keep aside.
  5. Heat clarified butter in another pan, add the marinated mutton and cook it till the water completely dries up. Adjust salt and red chilli powder.
  6. Add water and cook it in pressure cooker.
  7. Once mutton becomes cooked completely, add the ground paste and cook it on low flame for 10 minutes.
  8. Now add fried onion and put the flame off.
  9. Serve Zafrani bagdadi gost with sheermal, nan or tandoori roti.

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