Jungli Maas is a delicious spicy mutton recipe from Rajasthan usually cooked in the jungle while on hunting. As Jungli Maas recipe required very few ingredients so it is perfect non vegetarian recipe to cook in outdoors or while hunting birds or animals. Jungli Maas got its flavour with dried red chillies, salt and ghee. You can also add garlic to enhance the flavour of the dish. The hero of the recipe is Meat so let it shine without adding any fancy ingredients or spices.

Ingredients

• Mutton or Goat meat (with bone)- 1 kilograms, Garlic cloves- 8 to 10, Dried red chillies- 15 to 20 or to taste, Ghee or Clarified Butter- ½ cup, Salt- to taste

Method

• Marinate mutton with the ingredients mentioned under marination ingredients section. Ensure that you mix them properly. Keep it aside for 30 minutes for oil, spice and juices to penetrate.
• Heat water in a pan. Add dried red chillies, coriander seeds, green cardamom, peppercorn to the pan. Allow the mixture to boil nicely. It should not take more than 10 to 12 minutes. Once done you will see that the dried chillies has gone soft and tender.
• Separate all the wet ingredients from Water through a sieve. Do not throw the water. We will use it later.
• Place all wet ingredients and garlic cloves in a grinder and grind it to a fine paste. At this point all your prep work is done. Time to get to the curry going.
• Heat mustard oil in a non stick pan. Add black peppercorns, cinnamon sticks, bay leaves, cumin seeds and Star Anise to the pan. This is done to slightly flavour the oil. Now add onions and saute till they are golden brown.
• Add garlic paste and saute for 5 minutes on low flame. Add the marinated mutton to the onions and sauté on low heat for 10 minutes.
• Add 1/2 cup of strained spiced water(that we had retained) to the pan and let the mutton cook in it on medium heat for 15 minutes.
• Add the rest of grinded magic spice mixture and 4 cups of strained spiced water to the mutton.Cover and cook for about 60 to 75 minutes on low flame or until the mutton is cooked properly. Once done, garnish it with fresh chopped coriander and serve hot