Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, dum aloo. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really 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 popular of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Dum aloo is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have dum aloo using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Dum aloo:
- Prepare 500 gms potatoes (Preferably smaller ones- suitable for the Dum Aloo)
- Make ready 250-300 gms Fresh Tomatoes
- Make ready 5-6 Red Chilli (soaked in slightly lukewarm water for about 10 mins)
- Get 1 tbsp Freshly Made Ginger Paste
- Take 1.5 tsp Turmeric Powder
- Get 1.5 tsp Red Chilli Powder
- Make ready 1 tsp Hing (Asafoetida)
- Take To Taste Salt
- Prepare 1 Pinch Sugar
- Make ready 1/4 Cup Cooking Oil (Any- Refined)
- Make ready 1 tbsp Mustard Oil (To Pour On Top)
- Make ready 2 pieces Green Chillies
- Prepare 2 pieces Bay Leaves (Tejpatta)
- Get 2 pieces Red Chillies (Whole)
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:
- Clean and cut the potatoes into 2 halves and boil it in a pressure cooker
- Peel it's skin, post boiling & fry/sauté until light golden brown in colour before preparing the main dish
- Now, in a blender jar take the aforementioned amounts of washed & roughly chopped tomatoes, soaked red chilli Ginger & also put 2 Green Chillies as well & blend it all in the form of a thick purée without adding any water to it
- Now, in the same frying pan in which the potatoes were sautéed earlier: Keeping the flame in the medium, add in the same oil - 2 pieces of Bay Leaves & 2 pieces of Whole Red Chillies & the Hing & sauté it until it releases a nice smell
- Now, pour in the entire tomato ginger & red chilli purée that we’ve prepared already into it and also, add in the measured turmeric powder, salt & sugar and keep sautéing well enough- In the medium flame for about 2/3 mins time & then reducing it to the low-medium, for about another 10-12 mins time
- No need to add in any water at all- Just, wash the blender jar in which we’ve prepared the purée for the dish with a very little amount of water & run the blender once more to scrape off the remains of the purée to be poured into the boiling gravy in the frying pan/kadhai/wok
- Well cook until the raw smell of the tomatoes and rest other ingredients are submerged & well incorporated into the gravy of our very unique dish releasing an absolutely delicious & crazily fine aroma to the entire house, the gravy’s thickened substantially… put off the flame & keep it on the oven, covered for about another 10-15 mins time, in it's standby position
- Well, here you go with this fabulous dish to be served piping hot with puris, plain rice/fried rice, parathas & even plain Rotis
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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