Mutton Sukka Recipe | Mutton Chukka Varuval | Spicy Mutton Masala Fry Recipe

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas celebration and enjoying your holidays. We too had a good one. V is off this week, so its going to be a busy week, elaborate cooking, shopping and outing. Now coming to the recipe, Mutton Chukka Varuval/Mutton Fry, after a very long time I cooked mutton few weeks back. This is again my mom's recipe, very simple and easy to cook mutton recipe. Here I used little coconut paste for the varuval but you can skip coconut if you don't like but I recommend adding coconut paste, sure it give rich flavor and unique taste to the fry. Mom makes similar fry with chicken also.  Mutton Chukka is a spicy and delicious side dish that goes well with Biryani, plain rice and rasam and even with soft dosa. We had it with Chicken Biryani and raita. It was a filling and delicious weekend meal.

Mutton Chukka Varuval Recipe

Prep time : 25 mins | Cook time : 10 mins

Recipe Category : side dish

Serves  : 4

Ingredients

1. Mutton  1lb / 400 gm
2. Pearl onion/sambar Onion  4 no.
3. Ginger   1" piece
4. Garlic   4 clove.
5. Clove   4-5 no.
6. Chilli powder    1 and 1/2 tsp
7. Coriander powder   2 tsp
8. Turmeric powder    1/4 tsp
9. Oil  2-3 tsp

To wet grind

1. Coconut, shredded    1 -2 tbsp
2. Poppy seeds/khas khas   1/2 tsp(soaked in 1-2 tbsp warm water)

For Mutton Masala Fry /sukka Varuval

1. Oil   2 tsp
2. Fennel seeds  1/2 tsp
3. Curry leaves   1 sprig
4. Onion  1 medium (chopped or sliced)
5. Tomato  1 small (chopped)
6. Dry Red Chilli   1 no.broken
7. Fresh ground pepper   2 tsp or to taste
8. salt    to taste
9. Garam masala or mutton masala powder    1 tsp(optional)
10. Cilantro    3 tbsp, finely chopped

Method

• Clean mutton and sprinkle turmeric powder and keep aside.
• In a small mixer jar/coffee grinder, add garlic clove, ginger piece, pearl onion, cloves and pulse twice, no need to grind just pulse or pound it in mortar.
• Heat oil in a pressure cooker, add the crushed ginger, garlic, clove, pearl onion and saute for a minute.
• Then add mutton pieces and saute for a minute then add chilli powder and coriander powder and saute for 3-4 minutes.
• After that add 1/2 cup water, enough salt and pressure cook for 8-10 whistles and wait till pressure cools down.
• Meanwhile grind coconut and poppy seeds to a fine paste and keep aside.
• And chop onion, tomato and ground pepper corns and keep everything ready.
• After the pressure cools down, open the cooker and check mutton is cooked soft and tender and add garam masala or mutton masala, stir well..
• And then heat oil in a kadai, add fennel seeds wait till it splutter, then add dry red chilli, curry leaves and fry well.
• Then add chopped onions, saute till turns light golden brown followed by tomato and saute until soft and mushy.
• And now add the cooked mutton with little gravy(retain the remaining gravy and serve with plain rice/idli/Biryani)and stir fry in medium high heat for a minute.
• Then add ground coconut paste and cook covered for 2-3 minutes in medium high heat, after that remove the lid and stir fry until the moisture leaves.
• Lastly add ground pepper and stir fry for a minute and add some finely chopped cilantro, few curry leaves and turn off the stove.
• That's it..Mutton Chukka Varuval ready. Serve Hot as an accompaniment with plain rice & Rasam Or with Biryani.

Notes:
If you don't have pearl onion, then add 1/4th of a medium sized red onion.
You can crush ginger, garlic, onion and clove in a pestle n mortar. Do not use ginger garlic paste and it definitely alter the authentic taste.
You can skip coconut and add fry well with extra ground pepper alone for a pepper mutton fry.
I Used Homemade chilli, coriander powder and garam masala powder.