For preparing mutton curry with dry fruits, first grind together onion, ginger, garlic, grated coconut and poppy seeds to a fine paste.
Add chilly powder, ground coriander seeds, garam masala, ground cumin seeds, required salt, curd and vinegar to the above paste and mix well.
Apply the paste on the mutton pieces and add bay leaves. Cook in a heavy bottomed vessel, in low flame, till the mutton is dry.
Add coconut milk, almonds, pistachios, dried apricots and green peas to the mutton curry and continue cooking in low fire till the mutton is tender and done.
Stir in saffron and mix well.
Mutton curry with dry fruits is ready and decorate with sliced eggs and coriander leaves. Serve hot with rice or chappathis.