Dabba Gosht: Eid Special Mutton Recipe

Mutton

oi-Anwesha Barari

By Anwesha Barari

Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 13:48

Dabba Gosht is one of those luxuriant Eid recipes rich and delicious. It is an Indian mutton recipe that is popular across the sub continent in various variations. This exotic sounding name is for an interesting lamb curry recipe that is pretty basic otherwise. Owing its allegiance to the royal Mughal kitchens of the Delhi kings this spicy mutton delicacies is royal in its approach to cuisine.

Dabba Gosht cannot be your diet food Eid recipe. It is decadent, fattening and sinfully delicious. So if you want to try this Indian mutton recipe be prepared for eating succulent meat dripping in ghee. It is food meant to pamper your senses. Moreover, Eid recipes are meant to be grand and this one is every bit fit to be that. The main ingredients used in it are mutton and eggs.

Ingredients For Dabba Gosht:

1. Mutton 500 grams (cut into small pieces)
2. Eggs 6
3. Onions 2
4. Ginger garlic paste 2 tablespoons
5. Tomatoes 2 (sliced finely)
6. Bread 2 slices (soaked in water)
7. Dry fruits- almonds and cashews (paste) 3 tablespoons
8. Green chillies 6 (chopped finely)
9. Red chilli powder 1 teaspoon
10. Cumin powder 2 teaspoons
11. Pepper ground 2 tablespoons
12. Curd 100 grams
13. Ghee ' a cup
14. Salt as per taste

Procedure For Dabba Gosht:

• Marinate the mutton with curd, ginger garlic paste, pepper, cumin powder and salt for about an hour.
• Heat ghee in a deep pan and saute the onions in it.
• Prepare a gravy of the rich paste of dry fruits. All you have to do is soak them in water overnight and grind them in the mixer-grinder.
• Cook the marinated mutton in the oil once the gravy starts turning brown.
• Add green chillies, salt and tomatoes; stir occasionally until the mutton is more or less cooked. Don't use too much water to cook the mutton. There should be hardly any water left in the gravy by now.
• Now mash the soaked bread and mix it into the gravy.
• Beat the eggs with a pinch of red chilli powder and salt; cook half of it in a shallow pan.
• Place these cooked eggs at the base of a baking pan and spread out the cooked mutton on tops of it. Pour the rest of the beaten eggs on it and also the remaining ghee; microwave it for 7 to 10 minutes.

Dabba Gosht is ready to eat with rotis or parathas. Garnish it with freshly chopped coriander leaves if you want.