Mutton Tikki by Arunima Biswas

Cooking is all about fun and experimentation for me. Unfortunately, I don’t maintain a recipe book for myself and had a really hard time to write these two for BitebyByte!

Ingredients: Serves 8-10
• 500 gm mutton keema
• 300 gm chana dal soaked in water
• 1 tsp Garam Masala (Cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, bay leaves)
• 2 -3 onions chopped
• 1 tsp garlic paste
• 1 tsp ginger paste
• 1 tsp cumin powder
• 1 tsp Red Chilli Powder
• 1 tsp Turmeric Powder
• ½ tsp Nutmeg powder
• 1 egg
• 1 tbsp oil to cook the meat and 2 table spoon oil to fry

Procedure
1. Heat oil in a pan. Add whole garam masala and heat until splutters.
2. Add chopped onions and fry until golden.
3. Add the mutton keema and cook until pinkness disappears.
4. Add ginger garlic paste, cumin, red chilli and turmeric.
5. Add the chana dal and cook till the dal gets done along with the mutton.
6. Add salt to taste and add the nutmeg powder
7. Empty the contents of the pan into a mixer and grind to fine paste.
8. Beat the egg and add it to the paste.
9. Make round kebabs, keep in the refrigerator for 2 h.
10. Shallow-fry the kebabs and serve with pudina chutney.