Add a dash of flavour to your Holi celebrations with a special laal maas recipe. 

Ingredients:

• 1 kg mutton curry cut
• 100 ml refined oil
• Salt to taste       
• 200 gm onions
• 5 gm black cardamom
• 5 gm bay leaf
• 5 gm cinnamon stick
• 5 gm green cardamom
• 50 gm ginger garlic paste
• 50 gm Deggi mirch
• 25 gm chilli paste
• 100 gm tomato puree
• 25 gm coriander powder

Method:

• Take oil in a pan, add whole spices and let it crackle.              
• Add sliced onions and cook it till golden brown. Add ginger garlic paste.                 
• Add mutton, salt and cook. Put Deggi mirch, chilli paste and coriander powder, mix well.        
• Add 1 litre hot water to the pan and let the mutton cook. When the mutton is almost cooked, add tomato puree.
• Top with fresh green coriander and desi ghee when ready.

Gaurav Misra is the executive chef at The Westin Pushkar Resort & Spa.