Mutton Tikka(Kashmiri Tujj)

Ingredients

1 kg mutton(cut into small pieces)

1 and a half teaspoon cummin powder

1 and a half teaspoon garam masala powder

1 and a half teaspoon red chilli powder

half teaspoon turmeric powder(haldi)

1 and a half tablespoon each ginger and garlic paste

half cup vinegar or use fresh lemon juice of 7 lemons

6 tablespoon curd(dahi)

3 tablespoon of oil

Procedure 

1. Marinate mutton well with all spices, curd and lemon juice or vinegar.

2. Cover it with cling and refrigerate for overnight.

3  Keep coal stove ready .

4. Arrange 4 to 5 mutton pieces on skewers and grill on coal stove '

5. Remove from heat after you check mutton is grilled properly.

5.Serve hot with mint chutney .You can roll it in lavasa (Kashmiri bread) also.

Dried Turnip Boiled Eggs and Cottage Cheese
(Gogji Aara Zamura Dhool te Chaman(Kashmiri Name of the Dish))

Ingredients
10 to 15 Gogji Aara(1 turnip is cut into two pieces(Dried Turnip pieces))
500 gms Chaman(Cottage Cheese cut into medium pieces)
5 Boiled eggs
4 Table spoon fried onions
150 gms oil
5 Green Cardamom
1 teaspoon black cummin seeds
1 and half teaspoon turmeric
2 teaspoon red chilli powder
1 tsp ginger powder
1 teaspoon garlic paste
half  teaspoon cummin powder
salt to taste

Procedure
1. Boil dried turnip in water for few minutes. Let them cool and peel off the cover of  each turnip
    piece.
2. Steam these dried turnip for few minutes in pressure cook so that they will become tender.
3. Heat oil and fry turnip batch wise. Keep them aside and fry cottage cheese like wise and finally fry
    boiled eggs.
4. Take a medium pan and put some oil in it add cummin seeds and green cardamom to it and fry for
     some time. Add garlic paste to oil then fried onions and finally add powdered masala.
5   Add fried turnips to the fried onion masala and keep on stirring put little water in between.
6. Next add fried cheese and boiled eggs mix them carefully just see to it that cheese or eggs
    should not break.
7  Finally add 2 cups of water ,cover with lid and let it boil on high flame for some time and then sim     the flame sprinkle cummin powder and cook for few more minutes until gravy is thick. Serve hot        with plain rice.
 

Mutton Pulao

Ingredients

4 cup basamati rice(soake in water for 7mins)

700 gms mutton(cut in small pieces)

5 medium sized onions( nicely sliced)

1 cup cooking oil

1 tsp cummin seeds

6 green cardamom

3 black cardamom

1 cinnamom stick

3 bay leaves(tejpata)

3 laung

1tsp black pepper corn

1 and half tablespoon both ginger garlic paste

1tablespoon corriander powder

1 tablespoon cummin powder

salt to taste

half teaspoon red chilli powder

4 table spoon curd

4 tablespoon extra oil

1 and half teaspoon sauf powder

1 and half teaspoon ginger powder

Procedure

Step 1

Heat 4 tablespoons of oil in pressure cooker fry half onion in it, add meat and keep on stirring till meat is well coated with oil. Mix sauf and ginger powder in meat and finally add 8 cups of water in it. Close the lid. Once the whistle is up cook on slow heat for about 25 mins or cook as per your place depends how long willmeat take to tender.

Step 2

Heat oil in a wide utencil. Put all ground spices(cummin,seeds,cinnamom,cardamom,bay leaves,laung and pepper corns). Keep stirring till spices crackle. Now put sliced onions and fry untill onion becomes golden brown in colour .Add 2 to 3 tablespoon of water so that onion should not burn. Add ginger garlic paste and all powdered masala except sauf and ginger powder. Keep on frying and add little water in between. Now add already cooked meat in Step 1. Also add curd to it.Keep on frying the meat in the fried onion masala and dont forget to add little water in between or  you can add mutton soup as well. Once meat is well fried and coated with masala  add 8 cups of mutton soup to it. Let it boil then add rice already soaked in  water for atleat 7 mins. Let it boil for some time. Put the flame low now and cook for 35mins. Take it off from gas stove and serve after 10mins with raita.