Family recipeNon-VegMainHyderabadi
Basic Gosht
Amma's notebook · Main course, page 1
Amma's base for weeknight meat dishes: mutton pressure-cooked with onion and spices, then portioned and finished with any vegetable.
Method
- Pressure cook the gosht with piyaz, adarak laisan, haldi, mirchi, namak and water.
- Divide into as many portions as needed and store.
Amma's notes
- Add one vegetable and a dish is ready: tomatoes, bhajji (greens), beans, aloo, methi, soya, dal etc.
Typed up from Amma's handwritten notebook. Her Hindi and Urdu words are kept as she wrote them.
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