Mutton Soup Pulav recipe
A quick and easy rice recipe cooked in spiced mutton broth
Servings: 5
Equipment
- pressure cooker or pot
Ingredients
For the mutton broth
- 1/2 kg mutton pieces cleaned and marinated with salt
- 2 tbsps oil sunflower or coconut
- 3 onions finely chopped
- 4 tomatoes medium sized
- 6 green chillies finely chopped
- 2" piece ginger finely chopped
- 7 cloves garlic finely chopped
- 7-8 peppercorns
- 1/2 cup coriander leaves chopped
- 1 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 small lemon juice freshly squeezed
- salt as required
- 5 cups water
For the Pulav
- 3 cups basmati rice
- 1/2 cup ghee
- 5 pieces cinnamon
- 6 cloves
- 5 green cardamoms
Instructions
For the mutton broth
- Pour 2 tbsps oil in the pressure cooker or pot
- Add the onions, ginger, garlic and green chillies together. Saute till lightly brown and the raw smell is gone.
- Add tomatoes and saute well till they're mushy
- Add the turmeric powder
- Then add in the rest of the broth ingredients- coriander leaves, peppercorns, lemon juice and salt and mix well.
- Add the mutton pieces
- Pour in now 5 cups of water. Mix well.
- Close the pressure cooker and cook for 3 whistles or till mutton is cooked
- Separate the mutton pieces from the broth and keep the soup or broth aside.
For Pulav
- Wash rice. Soak for 20 mins and then drain the water
- Take 1/2 cup of ghee in the pressure cooker
- Add the cinnamon, cloves, cardamoms and fry
- Add the rice and fry for a while.
- Add enough salt and the soup or broth we kept aside
- Close the cooker and cook for 1 whistle. Remove from the flame.
- After 5 minutes, remove the lid and stir in the mutton pieces. (The rice will not be sticky because of the mutton broth)
Notes
- You can make the recipe with chicken or beef as well.
- You can avoid the spices if you don't prefer them.