Sheep Feet

Alright, today i am going to cook sheep feet, this is according to moms recipe, and i don't have to tell you how delicious it is :)

Ingredients:

3 tbsp cooking oil

8 Sheep Feet

2 onions

1 small tomato

2 green chille

1 tsp salt (can add more later if needed)

bunch of coriander leaves

1 1/2 tbsp ginger garlic paste

1 tbsp coriander powder

3 tbsp coconut powder

2 bay leaf

1/2 tsp garam masala

1 tsp ajwan (read note below)

1 tsp sonf seed (its either fennel or mustard, need to make sure)

1/2 lemon

Directions:

Cut the each sheep foot into pieces, clean the feet by scrubbing with knife (there is also tiny hair there, so make sure you clean it all), after that take white flour or rice flour, and scrub the feet, after that wash it again (this will help reduce the smell).

start heating the oil in a frying pan. Now take the onion, cut it into small slices, put it in the frying pan. slow cook the onion till it becomes light to medium brown, after that take onion out, make sure you dry take the oil with the onion, pour the whats left of the oil in a pressure cooker. Put the feet inside the pressure cooker, and let it cook slowly (this is to drain any moisture from the feet)

While the feet is drying up, prepare a mixer or a grinder, divide the bunch of coriander leaves into two halves, add one half inside the mixer, cut the tomato and add it, add the 2 green chilli, and add the fried onion. mix it well. after its done keep it aside.

Back to the cooker, after the moisture has evaporated from the feet (check the bottom of the cooker, only oil should remain, and no water). add 750 ml water add the mixture you made above to the cooker, add the ginger garlic paste, add coriander powder, add the garam masala, add the salt, add bay leaf, add coconut powder.

Now here it gets a bit tricky, get a small piece of clean cloth, put ajwan and sonf inside it, now wrap the cloths and put it inside the cooker also, you only want the flavor of these last two elements, at the end you will take it the cloth.

close the cooker lid, and waittill you hear the first time the air escapes from the top of the cooker, then let it cook on slow fire for 45 minutes. after 40 minutes stop cooking it, let it be inside the cooker for 25 min or so to let the pressure inside the cooker release slowly, after that open the cooker, and check if its fully cooked or not, if needs to be cooked more, then close the lid of the cooker and cook it more. If its done, then cook it again, but this time keep the lid open, this time, you want to evaporate a small portion of the water, but not fully, check for salt, if you need then u can add more.

At the end, add the lemon juice to the final cook, cut the other half of coriander and put it inside the cooker, now u can serve :)

NOTE:

i cooked this a 2nd time, this time i used a dozen feet instead, added a little bit of extra ingredients, remember the cloth trick, this time mom said to add a whole dry ginger (instead of ajwan) with sonf, and wrap it inside the cloth and drop in in the pot.. it was Delicious and better from the first time.