Mutton curry recipe Bengali style mouthwatering Mutton kosha

This Mutton curry has a very delicious aroma & taste and also mouth-watering too. In Kolkata, this mutton curry loves most by the peoples of  Kolkata, also this dish famous in other cities too. This mutton curry has a very unique flavor, that's why people love it. it has some unique Indian spices infused, along with Ghee. onions, hang curd, etc, Rest I will share in my recipe down below. just follow my steps for getting a mouth-watering mutton curry/kosha. This is a slow-cooked mutton curry don't be hurry while you making this dish. If you give time for a dish that will gives you the best results then you feel good after all of this.

Cooking time : 3 hr

Serve portion : 4 person

Ingredients:

(For marination)

Mutton/Lamb - 800gm

Onion - 3 pcs (paste)

Garlic - 8gm(10-12 peeled pieces)

Curd - 100gm

Salt - 10gm

Turmeric - 5gm

Shahi Garam Masala - 4gm

Mustard oil - 2tbsp

(cooking ingredients in oil)

Mustard oil - 10ml

Sugar - 1tbsp

Curd - 100gm

Onion -2 pcs

Bay leaves - 2 pcs

Dried red chili - 3 pcs

Cinnamon stick - 1 piece large

Cloves - 8pcs

Black cardamom - 1 pc

Green cardamom - 6pcs

Green chili paste - 40gm

Garlic paste - 10gm

Ginger paste - 30gm

Coriander powder -3gm

Red chili powder - 3gm

Cumin powder - 3gm

Water - 50ml

Ghee - 5gm

Hot water - 800ml

Cooking Method :

• First, Marinate the mutton/lamb pieces with Curd, Turmeric, onion paste, garlic paste, salt, mustard oil, and shahi gram masala. Mix them well and cover the marination and put it in the refrigerator for at least 8 to 10 hr.
  
  
  

• (On the menu ingredients list you can see same items which are used for both, like mutton marination and cooking in the oil list ingredients, please keep them ready both. followed by the ingredient list.)

• Now after marination keeps ready other ingredients properly for the mutton/lamb curry. Slice two onions keep aside. make a watery paste of coriander, cumin red chili powder, and water, & make a paste of ginger garlic, and green chilis together, keep them aside too.

• Now take a Kadai or big pan heat mustard oil temper with dried red chillies put bay leaves too now add cinnamon stick black cardamom and green cardamom to saute for 30 seconds.

• Now put sliced onion, cover, and fry onions until brown.

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• After 15 min later put ginger garlic green chilli paste into sauteed brown onions. Now saute them for 5 min.
  
  
  

• Now add that watery paste of coriander-cumin and red chilli. And cook until the raw flavor of spices goes away. cook them for at least 30 min.
  
  
  

• Now time to add marinated mutton pieces, mix the well-marinated mutton pcs in the sauteed brown onion and spice mixture, at high flame.
  
  
  

• Now add curd into mutton, mix them well at high flame. add salt & sugar to mutton.
  
  
  

• Be alert! This is controlled browning; stir often, or curry will burn and taste become bitter.

• Keep hot water ready, 

• add hot water in mutton, over the next two hrs on medium heat, you will add 30ml water more. 

• Cover the mutton gravy for cooking.

• After 2 min later mixes them well and scrape brown bits from the bottom of the pan.

•  Again cover for a few moments and after uncover do mix them like before.

• when you see mutton gravy water dry out while cooking, add 30ml of water to the gravy. (this cooking process can take up to 2 hr so be clam don't be hurry with these steps).

Time to time mutton gravy becomes tender by changing the color to dark brown

• When you understand your mutton becomes tender soft & brownish in color it means your mutton curry is almost ready.

• Finish with 1tbsp Ghee.

• Your mouth-watering mutton curry or kosha whatever you say it is ready to serve with polao or Bengali fried rice or roti or paratha.

Important notes:  If you are in a real hurry or you can't give much time to cook this recipe. So boil your mutton pieces in the pressure cooker. and use them. Do not need marination of boiled muttons. Use that marination puree in cooking, while sauteing all spices in Kadai. This procedure can save your time.

This Mutton curry or kosha is great for dinner. So what you waiting for, make this delicious recipe and make all of your family members happy. I personally love this recipe most & make this recipe at home on occasions, I will say again this is a slow-cooked recipe so don't be hurry with cooking the mutton curry, any questions about the recipe, please let me know in the comment section below.