Hungry Soul

Passport & Plate - Lamb Curry

India | Sunday, March 1, 2015 | 5 photos

Ingredients
Ingredients:


500g diced lamb
2 medium sized onions
3 cloves of garlic
2-tbsp-grated ginger
1-2 green chili (optional)
1 Bay Leaf
1-tbsp ginger garlic paste
3-4 tablespoon of yogurt
Oil
Water

Here is a list of spices I used:

Salt
1 tbsp Red Chili Powder (or as much as your taste buds allow you)
1 tbsp Coriander powder
¼ tbsp of nutmeg powder
½ tbsp Cumin powder
2 tbsp of fenugreek leaves
½ tbsp allspice powder

 

How to prepare this recipe
Clean the diced lamb pieces and set them aside. I am not going to marinate these because they will have enough time in slow cooker to absorb all flavors from curry.

Chop onion, ginger and garlic.

Heat oil in a pan and add some bay leaves.

Add garlic and ginger and sauté it for few minutes. Do this on low flame.

When it starts turning brown, add diced onion.

Keep stirring it for 3 to 4 minutes at low flame.

Add ginger garlic paste, mix and stir it for another 2 minutes.

Add all the mentioned spices and mix them properly and leave it on low heat. If the paste looks dry, add just a bit of water.

When the raw smell of the onions and spices fades away, add yogurt to the mix. Stir it well, and cover the pan for another 5 minutes. Keep the flame low else the mix might stick to the bottom of the pan.

The yogurt will make the mix thick and you will start noticing oil oozing out from the sides. This means the paste is ready to be transferred to the slow cooker.

Mix enough water and transfer it to slow cooker along with diced lamb.

Leave it in there for another 6-7 hours.

When done, serve it with rice or naan bread

 

The story behind this recipe
It was our anniversary and we had just migrated to a new country. We had a plan to flay to Tasmania for our anniversary but my husband hurt himself on his knees and was unable to even walk properly. So we were left with no plans as such. The least I could do is prepare a nice dinner for him. And I knew he loves lamb. So I put it in slow cooker and when he got back home after work (limping ! ), the aroma in the house was enough to bring a smile on his face. And since it was slow cooked, I had enough time to tidy up the home and arrange for a small candle light dinner at home itself :)