Recipe- Bengali Style Goat Curry

This recipe is the ‘easy version’ of Bengali-style goat curry. If you are cooking goat meat for the first time or even cooking a curry for the first time - this is the recipe for you. Easy goat curry is made with goat meat, more commonly known as mutton in India.

Ingredients

1 kg goat meat (curry pieces)
2 large potatoes
1 large onion sliced
1 inch ginger grated (or 1 tablespoon ginger paste)
2-3 cloves garlic grated (or 1 tablespoon garlic paste)
⅓ cup yogurt
1½ tablespoon cumin powder
1 tablespoon chilli powder or as per taste
2½ teaspoon turmeric powder
Salt to taste
2 tablespoon ghee
1 teaspoon garam masala

Method

- Wash and clean the goat meat

- To this, add onion, ginger, garlic, yogurt, cumin powder, chilli powder, salt, and 2 teaspoon turmeric powder. Mix well and cover

- Let the meat marinate for one hour

- Wash and peel potatoes. Cut them into large cubes

- Heat ghee in a kadhai and add ½ teaspoon turmeric powder

- Add potatoes and fry until it is light golden. Set aside

- Next, add the marinated meat along with ½ cup water to the same pan

- Cover and let it cook on low heat for about 30 minutes

- Stir occasionally to make sure it does not burn or stick to the bottom of the pan

- Once the spices are fully cooked and fat releases, add 3 cups of water and bring to boil

- Cover and simmer for about 15 minutes until the meat is almost done

- Add the fried potatoes and cook for a further 15 minutes or until the meat and potatoes are cooked

- Add garam masala and mix well

- Serve hot with steamed rice.