Ingredients
Equipment
Method
Prep
- Rinse and dice the onions and tomatoes finely. Also, slit the serrano peppers into two halves. Additionally, rinse and finely chop the cilantro and set it aside.
Cook
- Select sauté on the instant pot. Next, add in oil to the pot. Further, throw in green cardamom pods, cloves, bay leaves, cinnamon stick, and cumin seeds.
- Once the cumin seeds splutter, add in diced onions, ginger garlic paste, and slit serrano peppers. Furthermore, give it a good stir.
- Add the tomatoes and give it a good stir. Let it sauté for about 3 minutes until it is mushy. Meanwhile, keep stirring occasionally to prevent burning.
- Add in salt, red chili powder, ground turmeric, ground coriander and garam masala. Stir and sauté the spices for 30 seconds. Further add in yogurt and stir well.
- Add in lamb and let it sauté for 2 minutes. Additionally, mix well so that the lamb is coated in spices.
- Discard the bay leaves, garnish with cilantro and serve hot over steamed rice or with tortillas.
Notes
- This recipe has been tried on a 6-quart instant pot. The proportions may vary depending on the size of the instant pot you choose to use.
- All these spices can be easily found in an Indian store.
- You can either use lamb or goat meat.
- I buy the goat/ lamb meat from an Indian grocery store and ask them to chop the shoulder to mid sized pieces. The mutton cut that I have used for this recipe is Bone-in shoulder. Shoulder takes long to cook since it is a sturdy meat. You can modify the cooking time to less depending on what type of goat meat you buy or the size of the pieces.
- Larger pieces take more time, smaller pieces take less time. Modify the time accordingly.
- If you want less curry select sauté after depressurizing and reduce it as per your requirements.
- On a scale of 1 to 5, I would place this recipe at 3 in terms of spice levels. You can reduce/eliminate the serrano peppers if you cant tolerate heat.