Kheema Matar Masala Bread/Pav

Mutton Kheema is one of the most favored and loved minced meat available in India. It tastes very delicious when prepared with correct spices. Used to be one of my most favorite dish of our sunday meals. I say sunday because in most households non-vegetarian is cooked during weekends. The flavors, the aroma sends me back in time :) I have found a place here where I can get fresh lamb meat kheema. So once in a while, I indulge in this preparation and enjoy this dish with my family just the way I did when I was a child.
Let's go to the recipe:

 Ingredients:

• 1 lb mutton Kheema (minced lamb meat)
• 2 med size finely chopped onions
• 2-3 med size chopped tomatoes
• 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste (fresh even better)
• whole masala (4 cloves, 1 2inch cinammon stick, 1 cardamom, 4-5 black pepper)
• 1 cup coconut milk (thin)
• 1/2 cup peas (optional)
• handful cilantro
• 1 tsp red chilli pwd
• 1/2 tsp turmeric pwd
• 1/2 tsp cumin pwd
• 1 tsp coriander pwd
• 1-2 green chillies slit ( if you want more spicy)
• 1 tsp meat masala or garam masala
• 3 tbsp oil
• 1/2 lemon juice
• salt to taste

 Preparation:

• In a pan, add 3 tbsp oil, add whole masala and stir for few sec.
• Add chopped onion and saute till light brown color, add ginger garlic paste and saute for couple of minutes.
• Add chopped tomatoes and let it cook till the oil leaves at the sides. Stir in between.
• Now add all the powders, chilli pwd, turmeric, cumin, coriander, meat masala and stir for couple of minutes. 
• Add mutton kheema and mix it nicely with the masala, add salt, 1/2 cup water and let it cook for good 15 minutes on med heat. Keep stirring in between, add water if needed.
• In the meantime get coconut milk ready. I use store bought tin. You can make it at home by grinding coconut and extracting milk.
• Now add 1 cup coconut milk and peas, green chillies and let it cook till done, maybe another 10 - 15 minutes. When you taste it, should melt in your mouth :)
• Squeeze lemon juice and garnish with cilantro. Serve hot with pav or bread or nan or rotis( You can eat it with wheat bread but I like to have it with white bread, once in a while I give in :))

Notes: This method is one of the ways to make Kheema Matar Masala, South Indians also make a masala based on grated coconut where coconut is ground with spices and added to the kheema and it tastes very yummy too. But that recipe some other day! For now enjoy this dish made in a simple manner.
Instead of coconut milk in tin, you can use coconut milk powder too.

Nutrition Facts: Eaten in moderation it can provide benefits in the department of minerals and vitamins. Very good source of iron in the form of heme iron, that's easily absorbed in the body. Has vitamin B-12 which helps in production of red blood cells.