Meat Pulao

Ingredients: 500-600gms beef or mutton with little bone 1 ¼ teaspoon ginger and garlic paste. 1 Maggie cube (10gms optional) 2 medium potatoes cut into cubes (big size) 2 ½ cups rice 3 tablespoon ghee Salt to taste For stock: 2 bay leaf 15-18 peppercorns ½ large onion chopped 1 inch cinnamon stick 8 cloves…

Light Mutton Curry with Potatoes

Ingredients: 500gms mutton 2 large onions finely chopped 2 green chilies 1 medium tomato chopped 1- 2 large potato cut into cubes 2 sprig of chopped coriander leaves 4 tablespoon tamarind water Pinch of sugar 1 teaspoon vinegar (optional) 3 tablespoon oil Salt to taste Powdered masala: ¼ teaspoon chili powder ⅛ teaspoon turmeric powder…

Goan Potato Chops

Ingredients: ½ kg mince 6 medium potatoes boiled 1 large onion chopped 1 large tomato finely chopped 1 sprig of curry leaves (optional) 2 tablespoon tamarin water Pinch of sugar 2 eggs 100gms Semolina/ Rawa Salt to taste Masala to grind: ½ cup coriander leaves 2 green chilies 1 small red chili 3 cloves ½…

Beef Curry with coconut (Mother-in-laws recipe) / Pedrinha’s Goan Beef Curry recipe

This is my late Mother-in-laws (Pedrinha Fernandes) recipe which she had handed over to my Wife (Antoinette Fernandes) as we were going through her old diary we found this recipe and thought its worth sharing with Family and Friends. Pedrinha’s Goan Beef Curry recipe Ingredients: ½kg Beef cut into cubes (this recipe can also be…

Meatball Curry / Ball Curry

Ingredients: 400gms mutton mince 7 tablespoon freshly grated coconut (to extract coconut milk) 1 ½ large finely chopped onions 2 green chilies chopped 1 large tomato 4 tablespoon tamarind water 3gms of Maggi bouillon 3 sprigs of finely chopped coriander leaves 1 medium potato cut into cube (optional) Salt to taste  For meat balls: Mince…

Mutton Fortunato

This mutton dish is dedicated to my late dad Tomé Fortunato Fernandes. He loved mutton dishes especially with “nalli” (bone marrow) and I hope this recipe / dish does justice to his favorite protein. My blog is known to stick to Traditional Goan recipes but this particular recipe is an amalgamation of a few recipes…

Mutton Kismoor / Muttonachi Kismour

Ingredients: 1200gms Mutton pieces 3 large onions chopped 1 freshly grated coconut 10-12 sprigs of coriander leaves finely chopped 3 tablespoon tamarind water 2 tablespoon coconut oil Salt to taste Marinate: Stage 1 ( grind to a paste) One pod of garlic 1.5’inch ginger 4 green chilies Stage 2 While marinating add 1 ½ juice…

Slow Roasted Lamb Shanks

Ingredients: 2 Kg Lamb shanks / Lamb leg 2 medium size onion chopped 4-5 Kashmiri chilies broken in half 3 lime (juice) ¾ tsp turmeric powder 2 tsp ginger and garlic paste 1 ¾ cup Chicken stock OR 1(10gms) Maggie cube (dissolved in 1 ¾ cup warm water) 2 green chilies Pinch of sugar Salt…

Brain Omelette

Ingredients: 2 brains (Pork, Goat, Lamb…) 1 large onion finely chopped 4 green chilies finely chopped 3 eggs Coconut Oil as required Salt to taste Preparation: 1. Clean the brain well and try to remove the veins with a wet hand by pinching and slightly pulling. 2. Once the brain is cleaned put it in…

KHEEMA / KEEMA (ll)

Goan Minced Meat Ingredients: 500gms Mutton mince / Beef mince (wash well) 1 ½ teaspoon ginger garlic paste 1 large lime (juice) 2 medium size potatoes cut into cubes Masala to grind: 5 Kashmiri chilies 5-6 cloves of garlic 1” inch ginger 1 ½” inch cinnamon stick 2 cardamom 30-32 peppercorns 15 cloves 1 teaspoon…

Mutton Xacuti

Ingredients: 1 ½ Kg mutton Masala to grind (check process below) 2 tablespoon coriander seeds ½ star anise 1 ½ inch cinnamon stick 2 black cardamom 2 Green cardamom 1 Mace 1 teaspoon Kus Kus ½ teaspoon cumin ¼ nutmeg 24-26 peppercorns 16 -18 cloves 5 Kashmiri chilies 2 pinch of fenugreek seeds ¼ teaspoon fennel…

Mutton curry

Ingredients: 1 kg Mutton (With 60 – 70gms fat – like a curtain/parda type) Masala to grind 8-10 Kashmiri chilies ¾ tablespoon fennel seeds 4 Cardamom ½ teaspoon turmeric 2 pieces of mace ½ star anise (pic is of whole I used half) 22-24 peppercorns ½ teaspoon cumin 1 inch cinnamon stick 8-10 cloves ½…