Cooking with Sudden - Lamb Mince with peas (Indian style)

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Well since I started cooking on my own i've been trying various home recipies which eventually involve long hours on the phone to mom asking for step by step instructions :p This one dish now i've made about 4 or so times and the last two times it's turned out pretty nicely! So thought I would share it with you lot in case anyone felt like making it too ^_^

It is an Indian dish (keema matar) so does require some indian ingredients, easily available in any shop selling indian stuff. Also, it takes a long time to prepare. Should take about 1.5 hours from what my mom said but whenever i've tried it, invariable takes about 2.5 hours :p.

We start off with heating some oil - 4 tablespoons.

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Once that's done, add in about 1 tablespoon of garlic paste and fry until it starts splattering a bit.

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After that, add in 8 medium sized onions diced along with 2 chopped green chillies.

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Fry that until translucent/pinkish.

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Once that's done, add in the lamb mince. I just put in the entire pack, sbout 500g.

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Cook that until it's crumbly etc. and the water is mostly soaked up. This is supposed to take about 30-45 min. acc to mom but for me after about 1 - 1 quarter of an hour. I decided then to go ahead even though some water was left in it cause frankly I was starving :p. Keep stirring every 10 minutes or so otherwise it sticks to the pan.

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After that, add in 1 can of tomatoes.

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Cook that until again, water is mostly soaked up.

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After that, add in 1 large tablespoon of ginger paste.

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Stir that in and then add 2 heaped teaspoons of red chilli powder and 1 level teaspoon of haldi (turmeric).

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Stir that in and then cook for about 2 minutes. After that add in 2 cups of water.

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Cook until water is mostly absorbed.

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Then add in about 250g of peas, 2 teaspoons of garam masala, some salt and squeeze in half a lemon.

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Cover, and let that cook for 5-10 minutes.

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You're all done then. Serve and eat with bread of choice :) I personally prefer it with some frozen paratha's called 'Malabar Magic' which you get in the indian shops but you can eat with whatever you like :)

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^^ Haha I agree :p

Looks lovely :)

Keema does come in lots of variants, depending on the person that cooks it, my mum usually cooks it with white onions and a lot less water - I don't like mince with sauce so that's a bonus :D

PS: Thanks for making me hungry
 
Nice. Looks very tasty. Thread title would have ten times better if it read 'Cooking, all of a Sudden - Lamb mince with peas (Indian style)' IMO :cool: :o
 
Lol you cook like me - mess everywhere! :D

I may actually try this recipe!

Mess? You should see when I try and cook chinese! Now that's messy! This is just everything in one pot. Chinese I need like 3 bowls, 2 woks and 2 or 3 plates :p lol. Takes me ages to clean up after :(

Hmm...do white onions taste all that much better? Never found much of a difference, but never tried this recipie with them. Mom said onions, so I got onions, lol. I might try it with white next time since everyones recommending it ^_^

As for using the real thing instead of paste, hell no! Too much work! Buy teh stuff, then peel and chop and then mince it anyway :p + for this I only have to buy the mince. onions and peas I usually have at home.

I'm glad I made you all hungry. Now you know how I feel everytime I look at one of the cooking threads on here :p Finally have the pleasure of being stuffed and looking at you :D
 
you could make that recipe a lot better by,

1. using tharka instead of pastes and adding the tharka after you have fried the onions (tharka = ginger and garlic cloves blended).

2. dont add any water.

3. use tortilla wraps instead of frozen pratha's or supermarket chapati's, tortilla's taste better when cooked on a thuvva (indian frying pan used for making chapati's)

also the reason why it takes you that long is because your using far too much water, and you must have it on a low heat or your cooker aint that powerful.

you can also add potatoes into this recipe, chopped into squares as thick as your thumb
 
Mess? You should see when I try and cook chinese! Now that's messy! This is just everything in one pot. Chinese I need like 3 bowls, 2 woks and 2 or 3 plates :p lol. Takes me ages to clean up after :(

Hmm...do white onions taste all that much better? Never found much of a difference, but never tried this recipie with them. Mom said onions, so I got onions, lol. I might try it with white next time since everyones recommending it ^_^

As for using the real thing instead of paste, hell no! Too much work! Buy teh stuff, then peel and chop and then mince it anyway :p + for this I only have to buy the mince. onions and peas I usually have at home.

I'm glad I made you all hungry. Now you know how I feel everytime I look at one of the cooking threads on here :p Finally have the pleasure of being stuffed and looking at you :D

its a common misconception that you need to peel ginger, nobody can tell the difference between peeled ginger and un-peeled ginger after you blend it.

1. peel an onion and chop the side bits

2. throw 1 onion and a whole ginger and a few garlic cloves into blender

3. blend until you make your very own fresh paste (tharka)

this is of course a quick way to do it, you could do it the long way by peeling the ginger, then finely chopping both the ginger and garlic, then throwing them into the pan with the onions.
 
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