Winter is here and it’s time to cook the healthiest meals from home. This season brings the best vegetables from, pumpkins to greens, to roots. By incorporating these seasonal gifts, we can add warmth and nourishment to our traditional meals. One of these vegetables is turnip or shaljam which is extremely versatile and full of health benefits. You must have eaten turnip pickle (shaljam ka achaar), turnip kebab (shaljam ke kebab), bharta, turnip sabzi, and what not. But have you heard of Shaljam Gosht? It is a traditional Pakistani dish that is full of flavor and goodness of shaljam. Read on to learn how to make this unique dish!
Also read: How to make black mutton curry – an exotic mutton curry from Jharkhand
Shaljam Gosht is an easy and tasty recipe.
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How does Shaljam Gosht taste?
Shaljam Gosht is a spicy and flavorful dish that goes well with roti, naan, paratha or rice. Although it sounds like an unusual combination, Shaljam Gosht is actually very tasty. The use of mutton for this winter vegetable gives the dish an earthy flavor which contrasts beautifully with the tenderness of the meat and the spices of the sauce. It’s a warm and hearty meal perfect for winter that you can easily make at home. Plus, turnips are high in fiber, vitamin C, and potassium to help you boost immunity, support bone health, and promote heart health. Mutton is packed with Vitamin B12, zinc and iron, which are important for normal blood hemoglobin levels and to avoid anemia.
How to make Shaljam Gosht: Recipe for making turnips
Take a pressure cooker and add ghee to it. Once heated, add the chopped onions along with the solid spices – dalchini and tez patta. Saute and fry the onions until they become transparent and golden brown in colour. Now add mutton, salt and dhaniya leaves to the cooker. Mix them well for 30 seconds so that the mutton absorbs the onion oil. To this, add red chilli powder, haldi and dhaniya powder. Mix it well.
Shaljam Gosht is spicy but versatile.
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While on moderate heat, add whipped curd and ginger garlic to the mutton. Then add water and mix everything thoroughly. Cover the pressure cooker with a lid and wait for at least 7-8 whistles so that the mutton becomes soft and tender. Take a large pan and add it ghee. Once heated, add jeera and stir. Wait for it to sputter. Add chopped ginger, green chillies (cut in half), chopped turnips and sauté. On top of this add butter and salt to taste levels. Cook this on moderate heat.
Now add butter, black cardamom and coriander leaves to the pan and mix. When the mutton is cooked, add it to the same pan and mix well. When the turnip has become tender, mash it into the sauce and cook it until the mutton is soft. Take the Shaljam Gosht out in a pan and garnish it with coriander and butter. And voila! Your Shaljam Gosht is ready to serve!
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