Mutton Salna (Mutton Chalna)

Ingredients:

Marinade:

• Mutton-1lb
• salt-required
• chilli powder- 3/4 tsp
• turmeric powder
• lemon juice

DryRoast & Grind:

• sombu- 1tsp
• jeera- 1 tsp
• peppercorns- 3/4 tsp
• red chillies- 4
• pattai- 1/2"

Masala:

• Cut Onion- 1 Medium size
• garlic- 5 pods
• ginger- 1 inch
• tomato- 1
• Shredded coconut- 1/2 cup

Procedure:

• Marinate the mutton with the ingredients mentioned in marinate section for 30 minutes
• Pressure cook the marinated mutton with little more water till the mutton pieces are 3/4 cooked or 3 whistles.
• Remove the cooker from stove.
• Heat kadai and dryroast the contents under dryroast and grind section above.
• Grind it in the mixie nicely.
• Heat oil in kadai and fry shredded coconut and add the rest of the ingredients (tomato, garlic, ginger, tomato) under masala section until onion becomes golden brown.
• Grind this mixture in a mixie very nicely.
• Add the masala paste and the dryroasted ground masala powder to cooker with mutton.
• Add 5 tspn oil, required salt and water.
• Mix well and pressure cook the mutton with all masala for 1 more whistles.
• Once the pressure is gone, open the cooker and garnish with corriander leaves.
• Mutton chalna (Salna) is ready.
• Mutton salna goes well with parotta, chapatti, poori or even dosa.

Note: For Chicken Salna, Mutton can be subsituted with Chicken But you do not need to cook the chicken before and you can pressure cook it direcly only once with all masala