Call a category without theme settings

My theme has the following code to call the category name from theme setting. I remove the setting as I wanted to disable that option to change the category ID. But I don’t know hoe to call a specific category with this code?

My theme has this code to call category from theme settings page.

<?php $recent = new WP_Query("cat=".get_theme_mod('featuredcat')."&showposts=1"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>

What should i change to set a specific category without calling it from theme settings page? Can anyone help me?