How to prepare Mutton Rogan Josh? Check Out the Recipe

Easy, breezy and delicious mutton contains succulent pieces of lamb immersed in aromatic gravy along with flavored spices like cinnamon, fennel, cloves, and ginger. This flavored dish warms your dinner table with hearty and meaty curry. And furthermore,this dish has a fiery red colour which comes from Kashmiri chilli peppers. These peppers have more colour than heat which looks so delectable in nature. So make your dinner parties more spicy and aromatic with mutton rogan josh. To get this dish just call the best restaurant in Bangkok, and you will get the traditional and authentic mutton rogan josh at your doorstep. If you want to know the recipe and cook this flavorsome dish at home then in this article you will be enlightened with some simple and easy steps of cooking mutton rogan josh.

Let us introduce ourselves about the origins of this dish.

Basically this dish originated in the Kashmir region but some experts say that it was firstly introduced by Mughals from Persia. The dish comprises two names which have two meanings-Rogan means oil or butter in Persian and Josh means fiery, passion, spunk. Hence this dish is all about cooking with spicy flavors in an oil based gravy. People cook this dish with yogurt or curd and then they use the pressure cooker till the pieces become tender.

Recipe of Mutton Rogan Josh

Have a look at the ingredients of Mutton Rogan Josh below:
1) Chopped mutton cubes (qty should be 1kg)
2) Some amount of ghee
3) Cumin seeds
4) Asafoetida
5) Black cardamom
6) Peppercorns
7) Red chilli
8) Coriander powder (1 ¼ teaspoon)
9) Saffron
10) Fennel seeds powder (1 ½ tablespoon)
11) All purpose flour ( 1 ¼ tablespoon)
12) Salt as per taste
13) 2 ½ tablespoon of milk
14) Little amount of water
15) Hung curd
16) Three Coriander leaves

How to cook mutton rogan josh at home in simple and easy steps:

1) In the initial phase, prepare the saffron milk by mixing saffron in the milk.
2) Alongside, put some ghee in the pressure cooker and heat it for sometime.
3) You can mix whole spices in the ghee and heat/fry them for a while.
4) Afterwards, add red chillies, asafoetida, cumin seeds in the ghee and fry everything for sometime.
5) Now add mutton pieces carefully in the mixture and stir them properly.
6) Cover the cooker with the lid and leave the mutton in a medium flame so that the pieces could be cooked.
7) After 10 minutes,when the mutton becomes light brown, add water in the mixture and stir the mixture with spices.
8) These spices will be absorbed by the pieces and cook the mutton for sometime in a high flame.
9) Now the usage of yogurt comes into picture.
10) Take a small skillet and add all purpose flour, yogurt or curd and blend the mixture properly.
11) From steps 1 to 3, take this mixture of saffron milk and add all the spices in the yogurt and mix them well.
12) Now add everything in the pressure cooker and whip them well with a ladle and cook the mutton for sometime in the mixture.
13) Now add 1 or 2 cups of water in the pressure cooker and cook the mutton in a low flame for a few minutes.
14) Stirring should be done meanwhile to avoid stickiness with the surface of the cooker.
15) Once done ,embellish it with coriander leaves and serve this curry with naan or chapati to your loved ones.

From the aforesaid steps, you can easily prepare mutton rogan josh at your home. And moreover if you want to enjoy restaurant style curry then visit the Indian restaurant in Bangkok i e Amritsr restaurant, which has been talk of the town in the Bangkok region for quite some time. Bring your family members to enjoy this awesome curry and nibble the mutton pieces along with rice or naan.