Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, dum aloo. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna 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 current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Dum Aloo is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook dum aloo using 20 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Dum Aloo:
- Take 8 baby potatoes
- Get 1/2 tsp salt
- Prepare 2 cups water or as required
- Prepare 4 tbsp oil
- Get 1 tsp kashmiri red chilli powder
- Take 1 bay leaf
- Make ready 1 cinnamom stick
- Make ready 3 cloves
- Take 2 cardamom
- Prepare 1/2 onion chopped
- Prepare 3/4 tsp ginger-garlic paste
- Get 1 big tomato chopped
- Get 10 cashews
- Make ready 1 tsp cunim seeds
- Prepare 1/4 tsp turmeric
- Make ready 2/4 tsp Coriander powder
- Get 1/4 tsp cumin powder
- Make ready 1/4 cup yoghurt
- Take 1 tsp kasuri methi
- Make ready Coriander leaves finely chopped
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.
Instructions to make Dum Aloo:
- Firstly, pressure cook 8 baby potatoes with 2 cups of water and salt. Pressure cook for 1-2 whistle. Once pressure releases, allow the potatoes to cool. then peel off the skin from the potatoes. Poke all over the potatoes well with fork. Do not break the potatoes, be gentle.
- In a large kadai, add 4 tbsp of oil.once the oil turns hot, add chilli powder and turmeric powder.immediately, add the boiled potatoes. Saute till they turn golden brown. approx. 3-5 minutes. Then keep the fried aloos aside.
- To the same oil, add spices like bay leaf, cinnamon, cloves and cardamom. Saute till they turn fragrant. Next add in sliced onions and saute till they turn translucent. Now add ginger-garlic paste and continue to fry. Once the raw smell on ginger-garlic disappears, add chopped tomatoes and saute till they turn soft.
- Also add few cashews and saute. Turn off the flame. Once the mixture is cooled, blend to smooth paste without adding water. In a same kadai, add a tsp of oil along with cumin seeds.once they splutter, add prepared masala paste and fry for 5-6 minutes.now add spices like chilli powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder, cumin powder and salt to to taste.
- Continue to fry till oil separates. Turn the flame to low and add curd. Add 1 cup of water or as required to adjust the consistency. Stir and boil for 2 minutes on medium flame.finally, add fried aloos to the gravy.
- Close the lid and allow aloo to cook on low flame for 15-20 minutes. Keep stirring in between if required….this helps aloo to cook completely absorbing the flavours of gravy. Lastly, add some crushed kasuri methi.finally, garnish with coriander leaves and serve dum aloo hot with rice, chapathi or naan.
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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