Handi Gosht Recipe - Mughlai Style

Ingredients needed for the Handi Gosht Recipe:
1 kg mutton (cut in cubes)
3 cups sliced onions
3 cups Chopped tomatoes
2 cups fresh curds ( not sour)
2 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
1 tbsp green chilli paste
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 tbsp chilli flakes / 2 tsps powder
1 tsp turmeric powder
1 tbsp black pepper ( fresh, crushed)
1 tsp coriander seeds (roasted and coarsely powdered)
1/2 tsp aniseeds / saunf
1/2 tsp cardamom powder
2 bay leaves
2"pieces cinnamon stick
2 star anise
1 cup desi ghee
salt to taste

How to prepare Handi Gosht:
Heat ghee in a kadai, add green chilli and ginger-garlic paste. Saute the masala till the oil oozes from the sides and the raw smell goes.
Add mutton into it, saute well till the mutton changes to a golden colour.
Heat oil in another pan and deep fry the sliced onions to a golden brown colour. Remove.
Add these fried onions and all the other spices to the meat. Mix well.
Add tomato and beaten curds to the meat with salt to taste.
Simmer the stove and cover and cook till the meat gets tender. It will take at least half an hour to cook the meat without pressure cooker. Cook for a little more time if needed.
Cook till the meat is tender, garnish with chopped coriander leaves .
Serve hot.

Points to Note while cooking:
You can use the pressure cooker if you need to cook fast and have no time.
After adding all the ingredients in the pressure pan instead of a frypan, you can pressure cook for about three whistles or better still would be to simmer for 20 minutes after the first whistle. Remove the cooker from the fire and let cool. Open it and then put it on high flame and dry the gravy if you find the gravy watery.
The gravy should be thick and coating the mutton pieces.