Friday 14 February 2014

Maaz Rass ( Mutton Soup)

You will find soups very few in Kashmiri cuisine cause people here love to indulge into main course.This soup which I am sharing today is a very simple clear soup. My mom always made this when anyone got sick at home and all used to join in and have some in cup.This a nutritious soup with mild flavour. So here goes the recipe.


INGREDIENTS:

300gm mutton
7-8 cloves of garlic
2-3 whole peppercorns
1 tsp of turmeric
1 tsp of jeera/ cumin seeds
1 small onion
2 tbsp cooking oil
salt to taste


METHOD:

wash the mutton thoroughly in running water. In a pressure cooker add in the mutton, turmeric, jeera, peppercorns, garlic, salt and 5 cups of water. Give a stir and close the lid and pressure cook until 8 to 10 whistles. In the mean time thinly slice the onion and fry until crisp in frying pan with 2 tbsp of oil. This is the tempering for the soup. Once the cooker is cooled down and its pressure is released. Put in the crisp fried onion and its oil. Give a stir. Check for the salt and its ready to serve. You can sprinkle some pepper powder on top of each serving bowl and chop the mutton into small bits and serve in the soup. Its as per your wish. Enjoy this simple soup piping hot and relax.



Note:
Same recipe can be followed for chicken too. You can reduce the number of whistles to 6 since chicken gets cooked faster. Please use mutton or chicken with bones avoid using boneless as it tastes best only with bones.
You can also add other spices if you like. 
 

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