Curried Lamb

Ingredients

• eight ounces of boiling ghee
• four large onions finely sliced
• two pounds of fat lamb
• a teaspoonful and a half of salt
• a quarter of an ounce of cloves
• a quarter of an ounce of ginger
• a teaspoonful of red chillies
• a teaspoonful of turmeric
• a teaspoonful of coriander
• six cardamoms
• one ounce of sugar
• two ounces of lime juice
• two bay leaves
• one cupful of water
• one cupful of milk curd

Method

1. 1

   Fry onions in ghee until red brown.

2. 2

   Add lamb, fry lightly, sprinkle with salt.

3. 3

   Add fried onions, cloves, ginger, spices, sugar, lime juice, bay leaves, water, and milk curd.

4. 4

   Cover and simmer for two hours.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Banquets of the nations (1911) by Robert H. Christie, page 116. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a teaspoonful of turmeric, and when boiling put in the pigeons (which you have wiped) and fry carefully on both sides, turning occasionally, so that the flesh may be thoroughly cooked. Dish with the onions strewn on the top, and eat with chapatee and chutney. 278 CENTRAL PROVINCES (Mussulman) Lime Chutney. Cut twenty-five limes into quarters half way through ; stuff them with salt, and dry them for three days in the sun, bringing them in at sunset. Give them a good shake each time before putting them out in tha morning. Mince small the dried limes. Pound in good vinegar twenty -five dry dates, fifteen large dry red chillies, three whole peeled garlics, and one ounce of green ginger. Mix all together and sweeten with sugar, first adding to it the strained juice of twenty-five limes. It will be ready in a week. A cool oven will do in place of the sun. Kullah Yekhanee. (Curried Lamb.) Fry in eight ounces of boiling ghee four large onions finely sliced, and when red brown place to the one side. Now put in two pounds of fat lamb cut in inch-and-half squares, and fry lightly on both sides, first having sprinkled them with a teaspoonful and a half of salt. Put in the fried onions, a quarter of an ounce of cloves, a quarter of an ounce of ginger, a teaspoonful each of red chillies, turmeric, and coriander, six cardamoms, one ounce of sugar, two ounces of lime juice, two bay leaves

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