When it comes to spices, Malabar knows the best. This black cumin-flavoured pathiri and cumin flavoured mutton curry combo is proof. It is nothing like your regular ney pathiri. This deadly combo could make your Eid banquet sumptuous.
Ingredients
For pathiri
1 cup fried rice flour
1/2 cup scraped coconut
1/4 tsp black cumin seeds
Water
Salt
Oil
For mutton jeera
1/2 kg mutton cooked with fenugreek seeds, salt and pepper powder
5 onions sliced
2 tsp minced ginger
2 tsp minced garlic
3 tomatoes chopped
6 green chillies sliced
1/2 tsp pepper
3 cardamom pods
3 cloves
1 inch piece of cinnamon
A pinch of fenugreek
½ tsp cumin
1 tsp turmeric powder
2 tsp fried and powdered coriander
Salt
2 cups of thick coconut milk
Oil
For seasoning
2 tsp ghee
1/2 cup shallots
2 green chillies split
2 sprigs of curry leaves
Preparation
For pathiri
Mix rice flour with hot water and salt
Mix well
Add scraped coconut and black cumin seeds
Knead well
Roll the pathiri dough on a plantain leaf
Press it into the shape of a flower
Heat oil in a pan
Fry the pathiris till they turn golden in colour
For mutton jeera
Heat oil in a pan
Saute the onions
Add ginger and garlic
Saute well
Add tomatoes, green chillies, mutton and mix well
Fry and powder pepper, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, fenugreek and cumin
Add it to the curry
Add turmeric powder, fried and powdered coriander and salt
Mix well
Add coconut milk
Cover with a lid and cook for 10 minutes
For seasoning
Heat ghee
Saute shallots it it
Add 2 green chillies and curry leaves
Saute till onions turn light brown
Add the seasoning to the mutton curry
Serve hot
