# Mutton Yakhni

A creamy Kashmiri dish, it’s so rich, minty, and has a stunning sweetness from the onion jam, a flavor bomb in a stew.

- Total time: 15 min
- Cuisine: Indian
- Category: Soup
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 2 pounds lamb
- 3 bay leaves
- 4 cardamom pods
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 3 cloves
- 2 black cardamom pods
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1 tablespoon ginger paste
- 2 tablespoons dried mint
- 1 pinch salt
- 2 cups basmati rice
- 4 cups yogurt
- 2 onions
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon ghee
- 4 cups water

## Instructions

1. Start by adding 2 pounds of lamb to a pot. I’m using bone in for extra flavor. Add a couple of bay leaves, cardamom pods, cloves, a cinnamon stick, black cardamom, some garlic, a tablespoon of ginger paste and a heaping spoon of dried mint.
2. Add 4 cups of water and let it boil for an hour.
3. To make the onion jam, thinly slice a couple of onions, then sauté them in a touch of ghee till they get nice and toasty brown.
4. Then blend them into a fine paste.
5. Boil 2 cups of basmati rice in heavily salted water for about 12 to 15 minutes or till the rice grains look nice and fluffy.
6. Once the meat is soft, strain it and set it aside.
7. Add 4 cups of yogurt to the same pot with an egg and whisk it till it boils.
8. Add the lamb back to the pot with the stock and a gigantic spoon of the onion jam.
9. Give the pot a good pinch of salt, another tablespoon of dried mint and let it simmer till it thickens.
10. Once the sauce has thickened and has a body coating the lamb pieces, pour the lamb pieces in a bowl with a few scoops of the sauce, a sprinkle of dried mint on top.
11. Serve it next to a mountain of rice with each scoop of the sauce smothering the rice grains.

## Equipment

- pot
- knife
- frying pan
- blender
- whisk

## Source

- Original video: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1ASdzfD7ze/?mibextid=wwXIfr
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/7d378a89-ba85-442d-a103-80d8610ed163
- Extracted: 2025-03-24

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