Meat in Gravy with Rice from The World of Parsi Cooking: Food Across Borders by Niloufer Mavalvala

Ingredients

• 1 tsp red chilli powder
• 2 whole green chillies, slit
• 1 cup of chopped, fried onions
• 6-9 cloves
• 1 tsp ginger paste
• ¼ tsp turmeric powder
• 1 heaped tsp cumin powder
• 1 tsp salt or to taste
• ¾ kg / 1½ lb pieces of meat bone-in; lamb, mutton or goat
• 1 tbsp oil
• 1½ tsp garlic paste
• 2 potatoes, peeled and cut in pieces
• 4 cups water
• 2 crushed fresh tomatoes
• 1 cardamom pod, slightly bruised
• 6-9 black peppercorns
• 1 cinnamon stick