Bengali Mutton curry - ready for it anytime aka Mangsho Jhol

Have cooked this at ease

Have cooked it for my pregnant wife when her hormones called for this ....every Sunday 

....cooked on demand for other people ...bachelor parties... A perfect act almost every time with every target audience

The recipe is easy..but the patience and the slow cooking is the secret

....every Bengali family has this delicacy almost every Sunday and I remember running over to Maa from the time since I was 5 until 25 and more to get the first grabs

So today with a lot of public demand putting out my version of the Bengali Mangsho jhol aka Mutton curry or stew

Goes with Rice, dosa, appam  , idli, Phulkas and even parantha

Use lamb when no goats are on vicinity

For 2-3 pounds of mutton

Ingredients that go into the mixi raw

RAW Mixture - for Mixi

1 big onion

2 tsp coriander seeds or coriander powder

2 big garlic peeled

one small piece ginger

8 green chillies

1 tsp turmeric powder

2 tsp of pepper

2 big tomatoes

2 Cloves

2 sticks of cinnamon or Chaka 

For Sauté 

3 cardamoms

3 tej patta

1/2 onion finely chopped

Process

1) Wash the mutton with turmeric and salt thoroughly

2) Put the mutton and 1 tsp of turmeric in the cooker with 5 whistles

3) let it cool down to room temperature, separate the mutton stew from cooker

4) Grind the RAW mixture in the mixi and keep it ready

5) Heat the cooking pan and 5 tsp of oil, put the tej patta, cardamoms and finely chopped onion and fry until onions lightly brown

6) Put the cooker mutton without the mutton stew water, strain the water, fry the mutton with the tej patta, onion and cardamoms for 5-7 min

7) Put the mixi raw paste into this and fry thoroughly for 8-10 min

6) Put the mutton stew water into this mixture, put an additional 2 tsp coriander powder, fresh coriander and one potato and 1 tomato sliced into the gravy

7) Cook in low flame until the entire curry turns into red / brown, in low flame for 45 min covering the cooking pan

8) Put some fresh coriander on top before serving

All the best, burppppp....ensure to get a good evening walk or couple Rantac  pills to prepare you for the next meal...this is what most Bongs do :)