Indian lamb recipes
17 Indian lamb recipes, each written for this site and each saying what its method turns on.
- Biryani, sourced from India. Two layers of rice with the meat between them, which is what a pilau is not. Lamb.
- Champaran meat, sourced from India. The pot is sealed with dough and then shaken, not stirred. Lamb.
- Dhansak, sourced from India. Meat cooked into a sweet and sour lentil sauce, with caramelised rice beside it. Lamb.
- Dopiaza, sourced from India. The onions go in twice, boiled into the gravy and fried over the top. Lamb.
- Hyderabadi haleem, sourced from India. Mashed as it cooks until the meat is no longer in pieces. Lamb.
- Hyderabadi marag, sourced from India. A thin mutton soup thickened with cashews and cream rather than flour. Lamb.
- Jalfrezi, sourced from India. A stir fry made to use up cold meat, with the technique brought by Chinese labourers in Assam. Chicken, Lamb.
- Khichra, sourced from India. The same pot as haleem with the meat left in chunks. Lamb.
- Korma, sourced from India. It is braised in yoghurt and it is deliberately the mildest of these, aromatic rather than hot. Lamb.
- Laal maas, sourced from India. Mathania chillies in a yoghurt sauce, hot enough to have covered the smell of game. Lamb.
- Lukhmi, sourced from India. A flat square pastry whose dough is made with yoghurt instead of water. Lamb.
- Mughlai paratha, sourced from India. A wheat flatbread folded round egg and onion and fried flat, as a gozleme is. Lamb, Egg.
- Nihari, sourced from India. Shank and marrow cooked overnight, flavoured with long pepper rather than black. Beef, Lamb.
- Pasanda, sourced from India. Meat flattened into strips, in a sauce of almonds ground in warm milk. Lamb.
- Rogan Josh, sourced from India. The red comes from alkanet or Kashmiri chilli, not from tomato. Lamb.
- Shab deg, sourced from India. Turnip and mutton left in the pot overnight, which is what the name says. Lamb.
- Shami kebab, sourced from India. Meat and chana dal boiled together until tender, ground, and bound with egg. Beef, Lamb, Egg.
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