Lunch Kashmiri Naat Yakhn or yogurt lamb curry

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Naat Yakhn or yogurt lamb curry is a comforting yogurt based lamb curry cooked in mawal flowers, black and green cardamoms, onion paste and dry mint leaves. Quintessentially Kashmiri...

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Ingredients

500 grams lamb
2 onions, ground to paste
2 teaspoon garlic, ground to paste
1 ½ teaspoon ginger powder
4 green cardamom
4 black cardamom
2 inch cinnamon stick
4 cloves
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
1 teaspoon garam masala powder
1 cup yogurt
5 Kashmiri dried red chilies
4 tablespoon ghee
Salt to taste
Water as required
1 tablespoon dried mint

Method

  1. First soak Kashmiri red chilies in water for about 30 minutes. Then drain from water and grind into a paste.
  2. Pressure cook lamb with little salt and a teaspoon of cumin seeds for 1 whistle.
  3. In a wide deep bottom pan heat ghee. Add cumin seeds, green cardamom, black cardamom, cinnamon and cloves to hot oil. Then add onion paste and sauté until the paste turns golden brown.
  4. Add the minced garlic and dry ginger powder(you can also add fresh grated ginger in place of dried ginger powder) and sauté for a minute. Add ground red chilies paste and cook for a minute.
  5. Add cooked lamb pieces without the water and sauté for 3 to 4 minutes. Whisk yogurt well, add that to the curry, and give it a stir.
  6. If required add about 1/4 cup water, salt to taste cover and cook the lamb until tender.
  7. Finally sprinkle garam masala, dried mint leaves, mix.
  8. Serve hot with steamed rice.
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