Beef or Mutton Tehari
Ingredients
At a glance
Cuisine
Bangla
Main Ingredient
Beef
Main Course
Side Dish
Serves
4
- Ground lean meat - 500 gms
- Onion - 1, large, sliced
- Oil - 5 table spoon
- Green Chilies - 4, slit in middle
- Red chili powder - 3 tsp
- Salt - 2 ½ tbsp
- Garam Masala - 1 tsp
- Yogurt - 4 table spoon
- Green Cardamoms -4
- Cinnamon sticks - 2
- Black Cumin/Shahi Zeera - 1 tsp
- Water - 5 cups
- Rice - 4 cups
- Coriander leaves - 2 table spoon
Methods/steps
- Preheat the oven to 350 F.
- Wash and soak the rice in water sufficient enough to remain 5 cms above the level of rice.
- Wash ground meat along with sliced onions well and drain the water completely.
- In a pressure cooker at medium heat, add three table spoons oil and green chilies. Let them splutter.
- Add the drained onions and ground meat and also add red chili powder, 2 ½ tsp salt, garam masala and stir well and let it cook for 10 minutes.
- Add a cup of water to it and cover the lid. Simmer and let it pressure cook for 20 minutes.
- Later open the lid and adjust the heat to medium and cook the meat mixture well till the water dries up.
- In another heavy bottom sauce pan, at medium heat, with high walls, add remaining oil and the ginger garlic paste. Fry till golden brown.
- Whisk the yoghurt and add to the sauce pan. Also add cardamom and cinnamon sticks, salt, black cumin. Let it boil once.
- Add the water and let the mixture boil. Adjust the heat to medium high. As soon as it begins to boil well, add rice and mix well. Be careful not to break the rice grains.
- As the water dries to half the quantity, add the ground meat mixture and mix well.
- Let it cook till very little water remains.
- Transfer the mixture to an oven proof dish and cover it well with an aluminum foil and keep it in the oven for 12-15 minutes till a nice steam has been formed.
- Garnish with fresh coriander leaves and serve hot.
Additional Tips
While mixing do not shake to mix, use utensils to mix rice and meat.
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