Mutton Rogan Josh: Restaurant Style

Mutton Rogan Josh is a traditional recipe of Kashmir, where they use specific ingredients to make the Rogan Josh, but in places where these ingredients are not available we can also make it just like the Kashmiri Rogan Josh.
In restaurants in India, they follow a simple recipe to make this, I am making the same simple restaurant style Rogan Josh which is easy yet tasty. You can also read the original recipe of Kashmiri Rogan Josh.


Ingredients:

• Mutton, 1/2 kg (with bones)
• Onion, 1/2 kg, finely sliced
• Green chillies, 2 slit
• Ginger-garlic paste, 1 tblspn
• Fennel seeds powder, 1/2 tspn
• Black pepper powder, 1/4 tspn
• Cloves, 2-3
• Cinnamon, 1 stick
• Cardamom, 2-3
• Caraway seeds, 1/2 tspn
• Bay leaf, 1
• Curd, 1 cup, 250 ml
• Kashmiri Red chilli powder, 1.5 tblpn
• Salt, to taste
• Garam masala powder, 1/2 tspn
• Oil, 3 tblspn
• Ghee, 1 tblspn
• Coriander leaves, finely chopped
• Lemon juice, 2 tblspn 

Recipe:

• Wash mutton well.
• In a bowl, add cold water and salt.
• Put the mutton into this water and keep aside to brine the mutton for half and hour.
• In a vessel, add oil.
• When its hot, add cardamoms, cloves, bay leaf, cinnamon, caraway seeds, fry for few seconds.
• Add the onions.
• Fry the onions till golden, do not brown them.
• Add Ginger-garlic paste, mix it well for 2 mins.
• Add the mutton straining all its water.
• On a high flame, mix it very well for 3-4 mins.
• Add 1.5 glass of water.
• Put on the tight lid and cook till the mutton is tender.
• Remove the lid, add beaten curd, red chilli powder, salt, fennel seeds powder, black pepper powder.
• Mix well. Add green chillies, garam masala powder.
• Cook on low flame till it reaches the consistency of thick gravy, takes approximately 10 mins
• Switch off the flame.
• Garnish with coriander leaves.
• Serve hot topped with some lemon juice with rice, or roti.

Notes:

• Use fresh mutton.
• Cook the mutton till its well tender, so when you press it between your fingers its tender  like butter.