Nepolitan Mutton Rice

Ingredients 
500 Gms Mutton Chops

2 Cups Delh Rice

150 Gms Onions (Finely Chopped)

1 Tbs Shah Jeera

1 Tsp Red Chili Powder

Salt to Taste

½ Cup Peas (Boiled)

Ghee as needed

2 Bay Leaves

20 Gms Cheese

For boiling the mutton

2”Cinnamon Piece

2 Cloves

5 Flakes Garlic

2 Green Chilies

1 Onion (Sliced)

4 Pepper Corns

2 Tomatoes

Method

1. Cook the mutton chops till tender with salt, and all the ingredients from the boiling mutton column with around 5-6 cups of water. Strain the soup and keep the chops and the soup aside.
2. Clean and wash the rice. Heat ghee in a pan and fry onions till golden brown and crisp with shah jeera,, bay leaves, peas and the green cardamoms. Add the chops and fry for a while.
3. In the mutton stock/soup add the rice and chili powder and cook the rice on fast till ½ water is absorbed, then cook the rice on tawa or in oven till completely tender.
4. Place the rice in the serving plate and sprinkle some chili sauce on it put a layer of mutton chops on the rice and top it up with grated cheese.
5. Serve hot.

Hint: You can also use coriander leaves along with cheese for garnishing.