Mutton Karahi

Pakistani

Mutton Karahi

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Mutton Karahi is Pakistani home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

65 min Medium Halal Gluten free Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves
4

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Crush the coriander seeds, peppercorns and cumin coarsely in a mortar and set them aside.

  2. Heat the oil in a wide karahi, add the mutton and ginger garlic paste, and fry hard for 12 minutes until the meat is browned all over and the liquid it threw off has gone.

  3. Add the quartered tomatoes and salt, cover, and cook 25 minutes on a low flame, stirring now and then, until the meat is tender. Add a splash of water only if the pan runs dry.

  4. Lift out the loose tomato skins, raise the heat, and bhunno 10 minutes until the water cooks off and the oil pools bright red at the edges.

  5. Add the red chili powder and crushed spices and fry 3 minutes more so the masala clings to the meat.

  6. Throw in the julienned ginger, slit green chilies, crushed fenugreek leaves, garam masala and coriander leaves, squeeze the lemon over, and serve from the pan with hot naan.

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Serve it with

A Pakistani dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Mutton Karahi, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Mutton Karahi carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Mutton Karahi
Allergen In this dish
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy No
Gluten No
Shellfish No
Eggs No
Soy No
Fish No
Sesame No
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories
630 kcal
Protein
43 g
Carbs
15 g
Fat
44 g
Fiber
1 g
Sugar
1 g
Sodium
580 mg
Saturated fat
7 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Mutton Karahi takes about 65 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish. It also turns up at Eid.

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