Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, dum aloo. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. 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 favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Dum Aloo is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook dum aloo using 35 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Dum Aloo:
- Prepare For marinating potato
- Take 30 small baby potato washed and boiled(they should be cooked but firm)
- Make ready 1 tsp oil
- Get 1/4 tsp salt
- Take 1/2 tsp turmeric powder haldi
- Get 1/2 tsp red chilli powder
- Make ready 1 tsp coriander cumin powder dhania jeera powder
- Take for gravy
- Take 3 small tomatoes washed and chopped roughly
- Get 4 small onion washed and chopped roughly
- Make ready 15 cashew nut
- Make ready 2 green chilli or as per spice level required
- Get 1 inch ginger chopped
- Prepare 3 cloves garlic chopped
- Make ready 2 tsp fennel seeds
- Make ready 1 tsp cumin seeds
- Get 1 tbsp oil
- Take 1/2 tsp turmeric powder haldi
- Get 1 tsp red chilli powder kashmiri red chilli powder
- Make ready 2 tsp coriander cumin powder dhania jeera powder
- Take 2 tbsp oil for shallow frying potatoes
- Prepare 1/2 tsp kasuri methi
- Prepare 1/4 tsp asafoetida hing
- Take 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
- Prepare 2 cloves laung
- Take 2 cardamon elaichi
- Get 1 bay leaf
- Get 1 inch cinnamon stick
- Get 1 tsp kasurmi methi powder
- Prepare 2 tsp ketchup or sugar
- Take 1/2 tsp garam masala
- Prepare 1/4 cup yogurt it should be fresh and not sour
- Make ready salt as per taste
- Get coriander for garnishing
- Take 1.5 cup water or as per the consistency of gravy required
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:
- For marinating potato - Add oil in a bowl. Add salt, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, coriander-cumin powder. Mix well. Take the boiled potato. Pierce them all around with a fork and coat them gently in the marination. Cover and leave it aside for 30 minutes.
- For gravy - In meantime start preparing gravy. Heat oil in a pan. Add cumin seeds, fennel seeds, green chilli, ginger, garlic and cashew nuts. Toss them for a minute.
- Add the chopped onions. Saute till translucent. Add the chopped onions. Mix well and cook the mixute till the moisture dries out.
- Add the spices - turmeric powder, red chilli powder, coriander cumin powder. Mix well.
- Saute for 2-3 minutes. Remove in a bowl to cool and the grind into a smooth paste in a grinder.
- Till the gravy in getting cooled, heat oil in pan and shallow fry the marinated potato in batches. They should get nice golden from all the sides. (you can also deep fry the potato).
- In the same pan used for shallow frying potato, add cloves, cardamon, cinnamon stick, bay leaf, kasuri methi, asafoetida. Saute them and then add ginger garlic paste.
- Add the prepared tomato, onion and cashew nut paste. Saute for 5-7 minutes or till the paste dries on medium heat stirring continuously. Add water and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Add fresh yogurt and mix well. Keep the heat low while adding yogurt to avoid curdling of yogurt. Keep on stirring.
- Add garam masala and ketchup or sugar and mix well. Add the powdered kasuri methi and mix well. Add the shallow fried potato and mix well. Cover and simmer for 5 minutes till all the flavor is absorbed by potato. The Dum aloo is ready.
- Garnish with coriander and serve with hot roti, paratha, naan, kulcha, puri or steamed rice or jeera 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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