Spicy Mutton Curry
Spicy Mutton Curry– Melt in your mouth mutton pieces, cooked in caramelised onions, gives you the whole flavour to a new level. Comforting, Pairs extremely well with rice and roti! 
This mutton curry/ Mutton kulambu (in Tamil) is the best ultimate comforting curry I made in very recent time. The mutton pieces are sauteed in caramelised onion that gives you more fragrant and warmness to the mutton gravy. I have added coconut paste that thickens the gravy and the cashew paste gives you a rich and creamy consistency.
Can you see all good things are put into this one Mutton curry which explicitly levels-up the gravy! Isn’t delicious? This has become our new favourite.
A bowl of steamed rice with this spicy mutton curry on a rainy day! I promise that’s your best day.
I hope you will enjoy and love as much as we adored it.
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Why this Recipe works:
Rich and Ultimately comforting! You cannot miss out the flavours.
You can experiment with chicken or any other meat to make a dish everyone will love.
To make a restaurant-style of mutton curry, this is the recipe you should try for.
Steps by Step process to make Mutton Curry/Mutton Kulambu:
Prep work:
- Wash your mutton pieces throughly under running water.
- Slice the onion, grind gingergarlic paste, peel the potato and dice into cubes, chop tomato.
- Make coconut paste and cashew paste.
Tips to make Best Mutton Curry:
Tips to make Best Mutton Curry:Mutton/Lamb: The taste of the mutton curry depends on the quality of the meat. Getting fresh tender Lamb/mutton pieces to gives you greater taste.
Gingelly oil: Gingelly oil has a unique and distinct flavour that makes mutton gravy so delicious, However, you could swap to sesame oil or any vegetable oil.
Fresh ginger garlic paste: freshly made ginger garlic paste gives you more flavour rather than a store-bought.
Browning the mutton: saute the mutton pieces in caramelised onion and browning them gives you the depth of taste.
Nuts paste: I have added cashews paste, you can add some almonds along with cashews for the richer consistency.
Coconut paste variation: You can add 1 cup of coconut milk
FAQS:
1.How do you serve Spicy Mutton curry?
This mutton Gravy can be served with rice, Roti, Naan.
2.How long does this Mutton Kulambu last?
This Mutton kulambu can be refrigerator for 2 to 3 days in an air-tight container.
3.Incase if I use coconut milk, How to make homemade coconut milk?
Take 1/2 cup of grated coconut to a blender, add 1 cup of warm water and blend for 1 or 2 mins. Sieve the coconut extract to get a coconut milk.
This spicy mutton kulambu pairs extremely well with:
- Coconut milk rice
- Neer Dosa
- sweet corn pulao
- Aloo Jeera Rice
- Appam
- For all the mutton Recipes: Mutton/Lamb Recipes
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Spicy Mutton Curry
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 40 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
Description
Melt in your mouth mutton pieces, cooked in caramelised onions, gives you the whole flavour to a new level. Comforting, Pairs extremely well with rice and roti!
Ingredients
- 2 tbs Gingelly oil
- 2 onion
- 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
- 1/2 kg Mutton/lamb
- 2 tsp salt
- 1.5 tbs chilli powder
- 1 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 potato
- 1 to mato
- 1/2 cup coconut
- 10 cashews
- 1 cup water
Instructions
Prep work:
- Wash your mutton pieces thoroughly under running water.
- Slice the onion, grind ginger garlic paste, peel the potato and dice into cubes, chop tomato
- To a blender take 1/2 cup coconut to add 3/4 cup of water and grind to a smooth paste to get a coconut paste
- Grind cashews adding 1/4 cup of water to a smooth paste.
To make the mutton curry:
- Begin with sauteing onions in Gingelly oil till they are lightly browned.
- Add ginger-garlic paste and saute for 2 to 3 mins over low-medium heat until the raw smell disappears.
- Add mutton pieces
- Add salt
- Keep cooking the mutton pieces in onions till the mutton pieces turn to slightly brown colour.
- Add chilli powder and turmeric powder saute for 3 to 5 mins.
- Add diced potato and tomato, saute for 2 to 3 mins
- Add in coconut and cashew paste.
- Mix everything and cook for 2 mins
- Add 1 to 1.5 cup of water and pressure cook for 3 to 4 whistles or until cooked.
- Spicy mutton curry is ready.
Notes
Tips to make Best Mutton Curry:
1.Mutton/Lamb: The taste of the mutton curry depends on the quality of the meat. Getting fresh tender Lamb/mutton pieces to gives you greater taste.
2.Gingelly oil: Gingelly oil has a unique and distinct flavour that makes mutton gravy so delicious, However, you could swap to sesame oil or any vegetable oil.
3.Fresh ginger garlic paste: freshly made ginger garlic paste gives you more flavour rather than a store-bought.
4.Browning the mutton: saute the mutton pieces in caramelised onion and browning them gives you the depth of flavours.
5.Nuts paste: I have added cashews paste, you can add some almonds along with cashews for the richer consistency.
6.Coconut paste variation: You can add 1 cup of coconut milk
- Category: curries, gravy- nonveg, Non-vegetarian Gravy
- Cuisine: Indian