So I have been wanting to eat Mutton since the past couple of weeks, and finally went and got a 1kg packet of frozen mutton the other day from our very own Kohli’s (for those who are not from CMU/Pitt, fret not, its just an Indian grocery store ) Whenever I go to Kohli’s, I usually end up buying a couple of packets of readymade spice mixes, just because they save me tons of time and headache and do not hurt the wallet so much. So, keeping with my habit, I ended up buying 2 different types of spice mixes specifically for mutton (I will reveal them in later blog posts).

Finally after a week of getting these ingredients, I got opportunity to actually try out my very first real mutton dish (if you don’t count mutton seekh kebab as a dish ingredient). I used Sanjeev Kapoor’s Kohlapuri spice mix as my starting point, and just followed the instructions he had on the packet for a start. Unfortunately these spice mixes have very idealistic cooking times printed, and they usually fall short of the actual cooking time for each step. What should have taken 50minutes to cook, took me a good ~2 hours in reality.

The important thing to keep in mind while cooking mutton curries is that mutton always takes a lot of time to become tender and soft to chew. Unless you’re a fan of eating rubbery stuff (which I’m sure most of you are not), your mutton will always take about an hour or more on simmer to become tender and soft. Mine took about 1.5hrs to become really tender and even then some of the pieces were still a bit chewy. Lesson well learned I hope