Ingredients:
• 1 kg – uncooked Prawns
• 3/4 cup – ground Rice
• 1/2 cup – Coriander leaves
• 1/2 tsp – Turmeric
• 1.5 tsp – Red Chilli powder
• Salt to taste
• For the filling:
• 1/2 cup – finely chopped Pineapple
• 2 small onions, finely chopped
• 2-3 tbsp – Ghee
• 1/2 tsp – dried Lime powder
• For the Tamarind and Tomato sauce:
• Egg-size ball of Tamarind
• 2.4 cups – warm water2 small tomatoes, peeled and chopped
• 1 Onion – finely chopped
• 1 tbsp – Ghee
• 1/2 tsp – Red Chilli powder
• 1 tbsp – Sugar Salt to taste
• Fresh coriander to garnish
Method:
- Combine the ginger-garlic paste with salt and red chilli powder and rub into the mutton.
- Add vinegar and spring onions, leave to marinate for ½ an hour.
- Place the mutton in an oven-proof dish, pour water over it until 3/4th of the meat is covered with water.
- Cover tightly with aluminium foil and cook in pre-heated oven (300 degree F).
- Cook for 1 hour approximately.
- Keep checking, do not overcook the mutton.
- Remove the foil, leave to cool.
- Remove the mutton, strain and reserve the liquid.
- For the gravy:
- Roast the peppercorns on a tawa, crush coarsely and set aside.
- In a heavy bottomed pan add the reserved liquid and bring to a boil.
- Add tomato puree, reduce heat.
- Simmer on low heat until gravy thickens.
- Add pepper, chives, garam masala and salt to taste. Cook on low heat for 2-4 mins.
- Add butter and stir-cook until the butter melts and is well mixed into the gravy.
- Remove from heat, add cream and half of the blackcurrant juice.
- Mix well. Adjust the salt.
- Arrange the mutton in an ovenproof dish. Sprinkle the remaining blackcurrant juice on the mutton and heat it for 3-4 mins. in the pre-heated oven.
- Remove the mutton dish from the oven and pour the gravy over it.
- Sprinkle some extra freshly ground pepper and chopped spring onions over it. Serve hot.