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Mince Meat Curry

From Indian Cookery "Local" for Young Housekeepers (1887).

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From Indian Cookery "Local" for Young Housekeepers (1887), printed page 66, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/1indiancookery-1887

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Ingredients

Method

  1. 207.
  2. Meat minced mixed with mussala makes a nice curry, and is quickly made ef meat either cooked or raw.
  3. Brown a minced onion in ghee, then 1 Ib.
  4. minced meat, stir well and add the curry stuff, stir and add its water, and about a wine glass more of water.
  5. Let it cook only a few minutes, if the dish is made of cold meat.
  6. This is a capital curry for Picnics, quickly made and no acid is needed.
  7. The curry stuff is the’usual kind for meat curries.
  8. Meat Curry (Mahratha mode.) 208.
  9. Place a Thoa on the fire, with a heaped tea-spoon ghee, and brown 4 a fresh cocoanut in bits, one large onion, 1 tea spoon shajeera, 1 of anise seed, 6 peppercorns, 2 inches cinnamon, the seeds of 2 cardomons, 2 or 3 cloves, 4 or 5 dry chillies ;—grind these, with 1 table spoon roasted and husked coriander, 14 inches turmeric, a small bunch kotemer leaves, a bit of green ginger and 2 green chillies.
  10. Cut up, as for curry, 1 lb.
  11. of mutton or beef, and mix it with the mussala.
  12. Warm a table spoon ghee, brown $a garlic sliced, then the meat and mussala in a closed chatty for 5 minutes.
  13. Add the mussala water first, and next a large tea cup of water.
  14. When the meat is nearly cooked, pour in 4 a tea cup of warm water, season with salt, and boil gently till the meat is tender.
  15. If liked, five or ten minutes before dinner, add 4 a tea cup of thick cocoanut milk.
  16. No acid is needed.