Mutton Chops Kebab

Kebabs made from mutton chops, is a great starter with mouth watering taste and a healthier option too.
Ingredients:
- Mutton Chops – 1/2kg
- Bay leaf – 1
- Cinnamon – 2
- Nutmeg – 3
- Clove – 4
- Cardamom – 2
- Ginger – 1/2 tablespoon
- Garlic – 1/2 tablespoon
- Green chilli – 1
- Onion – 1
- Coconut Milk – 100ml
- Salt – 1/4 tablespoon
For preparing special Masala –
- Curd – 100 ml
- Salt – 1/4 tablespoon
- Chilli powder – 1/4 tablespoon
- Coriander powder – 1/4 tablespoon
- Turmeric powder – 2 pinch
- Paprika powder – 1/4 tablespoon
- Chilli flakes – 1/4 tablespoon
- Fenugreek – 1/2 tablespoon
- Oil 2 – tablespoon
Things to be done before we start cooking
- Ginger – 1/2 tablespoon (peel ginger and cut it into small pieces)
- Garlic – 1/2 tablespoon (2 cloves of garlic – cut it into small pieces)
- Onion – 1 (peel skin and cut it into small pieces)
- Coconut milk – prepare from coconut shreds – 100 ml needed.
- How to prepare “Paprika powder” – remove seeds from red capsicum – dry and grind those seeds to obtain this.
Steps to prepare
(1) Place a 3 litres pan on big burner – turn on the flame to LOW mode. Put half kg mutton chops to the pan.
(2) Add the below –
- Bay leaf – 1
- Cinnamon – 2
- Nutmeg – 3
- Cardamom – 2
- Clove – 4
- Ginger – 1/2 tablespoon (peel ginger and cut it into small pieces)
- Garlic – 1/2 tablespoon (2 cloves of garlic – cut it into small pieces)
- Green Chili – 1
- Onion – 1 (peel skin and cut it into small pieces)
- Coconut milk – 100 ml (if we are unable to get coconut milk, we can use cow milk instead)
- Salt – 1/4 tablespoon
Stir a little and make sure all mutton chop pieces are dipped completely in the coconut milk (or) the cow milk that we have poured in.
(3) Close the pan with a lid – let the mutton and other contents get cooked in LOW FLAME for 15 minutes.
(4) After 15 minutes, remove the lid. Stir a little.
Then, turn the flame to HIGH MODE. Stir continuously for 2 minutes.
This will ensure that the mutton chop pieces get dried completely.
(5) Take a bowl & add the below to prepare a special masala –
- Curd – 100 ml
- Salt – 1/4 tablespoon
- Chili powder – 1/4 tablespoon
- Coriander powder – 1/4 tablespoon
- Turmeric powder – 2 pinches (less than ¼ tablespoon)
- Paprika powder – 1/4 tablespoon
- Chili flakes – 1/4 tablespoon
- Fenugreek powder – 1/2 tablespoon
Fenugreek powder – preparation
- Place a flat pan on burner – let the pan get a little hot.
- Add, fenugreek – 1/2 tablespoon to the hot pan.
- Stir for 15 to 20 seconds. Fenugreek leaf would have turned crunchy.
- Remove those fenugreek leaf to a small bowl and crush them to powder using our fingers itself.
Mix all the contents well in the bowl – our “special masala” is ready now.
(6) Place the fried mutton chop pieces into the bowl containing ‘special masala’.
Stir well using a spoon so that all the pieces get evenly coated with our masala.
(7) Place a flat pan (tawa) on the big burner – keep the flame to MEDIUM mode.
Pour oil – 2 tablespoons (refined oil, rice bran oil or palm oil)
Wait till the oil gets hot – shake the pan and spread oil all over the pan.
(8) Once the oil is hot, place mutton chop pieces coated with ‘special masala’ coating on the pan. Use a Tong (chimta) to place the mutton pieces on pan.
After 30 seconds, just shake the pan a little so that pieces don’t stick with one another.
(9) After 1 minute, start to flip over all the mutton pieces using a tong.
Again after 1 minute, flip all the mutton pieces. Repeat this step 3 or 4 times.
The frying time should be 5 to 6 minutes in total.
In this time period the mutton pieces get fried completely.
Thus our mutton chops kebab is ready to be served and tasted.
Alternative Kebabs –
We can use the same ingredients and use chicken or fish or prawn pieces instead of mutton pieces – then follow the above mentioned steps to prepare –
- chicken kebab
- fish kebab
- prawn kebab