Go Back

MUTTON YAKHNI (LAMB OR GOAT)

Lamb or Goat in Gravy
Prep Time 30 minutes
Total Time 2 hours

Ingredients
  

  • 1 kg Lamb or Goat
  • 3/4 cup water
  • 250-300 mls Yogurt
  • 1/4 tsp Ginger Powder
  • 2 tbsp Saunf Powder
  • 1 tsp Corn Flour or Rice Flour
  • 2-3 Cloves
  • 1 Big Cardamom
  • 1-2 Small Sticks of Cinnamon
  • 1 Bay Leaf
  • 2-3 Green Cardamom
  • Salt to Taste
  • 2 tsp Ghee/Oil
  • 1/4 tsp Ground Pepper

Equipment

  • Pressure Cooker

Method
 

  1. Wash the mutton & put it in a pressure cooker. Add 3/4 cups water, salt, all the whole masalas except the green cardamoms. Add ginger powder & saunf powder also.
  2. Pressure cook for ten minutes. If the water is in excess after the meat is cooked allow it to boil till very little water is left. 
  3. Beat the curds along with the corn flour & add to the boiling meat.
  4. Heat the oil or ghee, add crushed green cardamoms & the pepper powder & pour it over the mutton. If you have garam masala you could add a pinch.
  5. Your yakhni is ready.