Rista (Meat-balls with red gravy)
Ingredients:
- 1 kg boneless mutton from the leg
- 1 cup of mutton fat
- 1 cup of moval** extract
- 1 teaspoon
saffron (soaked in a cup of water) - 1 teaspoon red
chili powder - 1 teaspoon dried ginger
powder - 4 black cardamoms
- 3 black fennel
powder - 2-3 bay
leaves - 3 cloves
- 2 pieces cinnamon
sticks - 1 teaspoon
asafoetida powder - 1 cup of mustard
oil - Salt to taste
Preparation:
- Pound boneless meat on a smooth stone with a wooden mallet and add the
meat fat while pounding. - Make sure the pulp is mixed well to make the round balls.
- Add brown cardamom powder, a little salt and 1 teaspoon ginger powder.
- After mixing well make round balls about 3 inches diameter.
- Heat oil in a large, heavy pan, sauté salt, asafoetida and a glass of
water and red chili powder. - Keep on stirring until it leaves the red colour.
- Add about 8 glasses of water and the rest of the spices and bring to a
boil. - While the gravy is boiling add meat balls slowly and gently boil for an
hour. - Add the moval extract and simmer for 15 minutes.
- Serve with steaming
plain rice.
Moval is a dried flower available only in Kashmir.
Generally it is used for coloring dishes. To prepare moval
extract- soak moval in a cup of water for about an hour, drain and store. As an
alternative we may use saffron
extract. Soak 1 tsp saffron in a cup of water and add to the dish.