Taas ( Griddle Fried Meat from Nepal )
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TAAS
It is marinated goat meat with coarsely grinded Nepalese spices with boneless Goat meat Popular in Chitwan in Nepal.
There are already too many posh culinary terms for Nepalese Kitchen like, Goat meat, marinated and grill Grilled, No bone, Nepalese Garam Masala, serve as meal.
Taas is a popular Nepali meat dish that actually originated in Muzaffarpur, Raxual, boader area of India and Nepal. This is dish is very popular in Nepal which is bought from Chitwan of Southern Nepal By Brumeli Nepali.
The boneless lamb cubes are marinated in Nepali coarsely spices and herbs, grill in little oil in medium heat in a large near-flat concave thick-bottomed pan called Tawa, resulting in an assertively spiced crispy on outside and juicy in inside succulent meat.
Long story short, it is girdled fried meat marianed with coarsel spices of Nepal and sereved with salad and pickle.
Again, It is not just grilled marinated meat it is set of meal, Puffed Rice, Tomato Achar, salad of Cucumber, Mooli salad, Green chilli, Red onion and Lemon salad but I used to serve with Fermented pickled Radish.
Moreover, coarsely meat flavoured masala of garlic, ginger, garam masala and chilli.
Ingredients
- 1 Kg boneless lamb, cubes or slice on your choice into bite-size pieces
Marination Spice
- 60 ml / 4 tbs vegetable oil
Spices to make Coarsely Grind marination mix
- 55 gm Garlic Fresh / 10 each
- 50 gm ginger / 2 inch
- 14 gm / 2 Green chilies
- 6 gm / 1 Red chilli dry
- 2 gm / tsp cumin whole
- 2 gm / 1 Tsp Coriander Seed
- 3 gm / 8 Green cardamom.
- 1 gm / 2 Nepalese Bay Leaves / Tej Patta
- 4 gm / 2-inch Cinnamon stick
- Salt 18 gm / 1 tbs
- 15 ml/ 3 tsp lemon juice
Grind together coarsely (Very Important for specifically of this type cooking technique )
Mostly serve with Red onion, Radish, cucumber salad, Green chilli and Lemon topped with fried meat masala /Taas masala over Puff Rice and Grill meat and Tomato Achar.
Enjoy delicacy of Nepal
Enjoy cooking at home.