Meat Cooked with Ground Coconut

Meat Cooked with Ground Coconut

Ingredients

500 gm mutton or beef
2 medium sized onions
3 medium tomatoes, quartered
3 green chillies, slit
5 cm piece ginger, chopped
1 tsp salt

Coconut -spice paste

1 tsp oil
1/2 medium sized fresh coconut grated
6 shallot, chopped
12 dry red chillies, torn into pieces
1 stalk curry leaves
2 tsp coriander powder
2 cloves garlic chopped
1 tsp black pepper powder
5 cm stick cinnamon, broken into pieces
3 cloves
1 tsp fennel seeds
1 tsp turmeric powder

Tempering

1 tsp oil
1 mustard seeds
4 shallots, chopped
1 stalk curry leaves

Method

1. Heat oil for coconut spice paste in a frying pan. Add coconut, shallots, red chillies and curry leaves, and dry, stirring constantly, till coconut turns brown. Mix in a coriander powder and remove from the heat.

2. Allow to cool, mix with remaining ingredients for paste and grind with 3/4 cup water to a fine paste . Wash meat, drain and cut into 3 cm pieces.

3. Place meat, onions, tomatoes, green chillies, ginger , salt, and 1/2 cup water in a pressure cooker and cook under pressure for 30 minutes.

4. Stir in coconut - spice paste and boil to gravy thickens.

5. Heat oil for tempering in a small pan and sprinkle in mustard seeds. When they start sputtering, add remaining ingredients and fry till shallots turn brown.

6. Pour remaining content of pan into curry, mix well and serve hot with rice or pathiri or porotta.