Nalli Ki Kaliyan By Chef Ajay Chopra from Living Foodz
Ingredients
Baby Lamb shanks 960 gms
Onion 350 gms
Ginger garlic paste 50 gms
Refined oil 60 ml
Ghee 60 gms
Cardamom 05 gms
Cinnamon 02 gms
Cloves 02 gms
Red chilli powder 10 gms
Turmeric powder 05 ml
Coriander powder 10 gms
Yoghurt 200 gms
Lamb stock 400 ml
Cashewnut 100 gms
Cream 60 ml
Saffron 0.5 gms
Keora essence 02 ml
Mace and cardamom powder 02 gms
Instructions
Finely slice the onion and set asideNow add all the other ingredients (except cream) and sauté for another 2 minutes.
Take a heavy bottom pan and put oil and ghee and then add cinnamon, cardamom and cloves and let them crackle.
Add ½ the sliced onions and let it cook till golden brown
Add the shanks and sauté well
Add the ginger, garlic and red chilli paste and sauté for another 5 minutes
Add the powdered spices except the mace and cardamom powder
When it leaves oil, take off from the flame and add the yoghurt
Gently stir and get it back to the flame stirring evenly
After the yoghurt is cooked add the lamb stock and let it simmer for about 25 minutes.
Remove the shanks from the curry and set asidew
Add brown onion and brown cashew paste and cook for another 10 minutes
Strain the curry from a fine mesh and then add pounded saffron, keora essence and the mace and cardamom powder.
Add the shanks in the curry and simmer for another 10 minutes
Finish with cream and serve hot garnished with brown onions and mint sprigs.