Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, dum aloo. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Dum aloo recipe with stovetop & Instant pot instructions. Easy, delicious, creamy & flavorful restaurant style dum aloo recipe made by simmering Dum translates to steam cooked & aloo to potatoes. Dum Aloo is a delicious recipe of baby potatoes cooked in a gravy.
Dum Aloo is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Dum Aloo is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook dum aloo using 20 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Dum Aloo:
- Get 15-16 baby potatoes (can replace with 4-5 normal Potatoes cut in small cubes)
- Get 2 medium sized onions
- Get 1 tbsp ginger paste
- Prepare 1 tbsp garlic paste
- Make ready to taste Salt
- Get 2 green chilies
- Take 1 medium sized tomato
- Prepare 1/2 inch cinnamon stick
- Take 1 star anise
- Make ready 3 green cardamoms
- Take 3 cloves
- Take 1 tej patta (bay leaf)
- Get 1/2 tsp jeera powder
- Make ready 1 tsp coriander powder
- Get 1 tsp garam masala
- Take 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Make ready 1/4 tsp hing (asafetida)
- Get 1 tsp kasuri methi
- Prepare 1 tsp red chilli powder
- Prepare For frying Oil + more oil for making curry
Our dum aloo recipe is also called Punjabi dum aloo. Chilli-coated potatoes in dum aloo curry are cooked with cream, tomatoes and a flavourful paste of whole spices and onions. Dum Aloo or Aloo Dum, a rich and special dish in Kashmiri Cuisine and also in Punjabi Cuisine. The baby potatoes are first deep fried, then cooked slowly at low flame in a gravy with spices.
Steps to make Dum Aloo:
- Take 15-16 baby potatoes or 4-5 normal sized potatoes and boil them for 2 whistles in a pressure cooker.
- Make sure do not boil it till they are very soft as in next steps we will deep dry them & cook them in curry. - Once the potatoes are boiled, peel off the skin.
- If using normal sized potatoes (just like I did), cut them in four parts and keep them aside.
- Heat oil in a fry pan on a medium heat and then start deep frying the potatoes till they get golden brown. - Do not over crowd the pan & fry them in batches. Keep the fried potatoes aside and let them cool off.
- Alternatively, use can pan fry them with less oil. Prick the potatoes with tooth pick and shallow fry them in oil. You can add some chilli powder, chaat masala, salt in the oil to impart more flavor to potato.
- To start making curry, in a pan add 4-5 tbsp. of oil and heat it on medium flame.
- Add 1/2 inch cinnamon stick, 1 star anise, 3 green cardamoms, 1 bay leaf, 1/2 tsp. jeera seeds & 3 cloves and fry them for 30-40 seconds.
- To it, add finely diced 2 medium sized onions and fry them till they get browned.
- Once they are browned, add 1 tbsp. ginger & 1 tbsp. garlic paste.Fry them for 2-3 minutes till the raw aroma of ginger garlic goes off.
- Now add 1 medium sized diced tomato and 2 green chilies to the mixture. Let it cook for 5-7 minutes till the tomatoes become soft and mushy. Turn off the gas and let the mixture cool down.
- Once the mixture is cooled down, add the mixture in the blender and turn it into a smooth paste.
- Transfer this paste again to the same pan & add also the spices (1 tsp. coriander powder, 1 tsp. garam masala, 1 tsp. red chilli powder, salt to taste, 1/2 tsp. turmeric powder and pinch of hing)
- Cook the mixture till the gravy turns to boil on lower flame.
- Add the fried potatoes at this stage.
- Adjust the thickness of gravy by adding water (I added 1 cup of water)
- Let it come to boil and add 1 tsp. crushed kasuri methi and mix well.
- Taste the curry and adjust the spices and thickness as per your preference.
- Serve hot with naan or roti or rice.
Dum aloo or aloo dum is a very popular dish prepared with baby potatoes. There are many ways of preparing dum aloo. I have prepared it in Punjabi style. It is very simple to prepare and tastes delicious. Aloo Dum is an exotic delicious main dish.
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