Ingredients

• 500 g - mutton, cut into serving portions
• 150 g - baby potatoes, peeled
• 1/2 cup - beaten curds
• 2 - medium tomatoes, blanched and sliced
• 2 - big onions
• 4 flakes - garlic
• 1" piece - ginger
• a few sprigs coriander leaves
• 1 tsp - turmeric powder
• 1 tbsp - each of garam masala and ground cumin seeds
• salt to taste

How to Make Mansha

• Fry the potatoes lightly in oil and set aside.
• Grind onions, ginger and garlic to a paste.
• Soak the mutton in curd and tomatoes for 1 hour.
• Heat 4 tbsps. oil and add onion paste and fry to a golden colour.
• Add all the spices and fry briefly.
• Put in the mutton mixture and salt and cook till the mutton turns dry, then fry to a rich red colour.
• Cover mutton with hot water and cook till it is almost done, put in the potatoes and continue cooking till the mutton and the potatoes are done.
• Serve decorated with coriander leaves.