Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, dum aloo. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Dum Aloo is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Dum Aloo is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
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. Kashmiri Dum Aloo Recipe In Hindi मसालेदार और टेस्टी कश्मीरी दम आलू ऐसे बनाये इस आसान नए तरीके से. Dum Aloo - By Vahchef @ Vahrehvah.com.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have dum aloo using 20 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Dum Aloo:
- Prepare 15-16 baby potatoes (can replace with 4-5 normal Potatoes cut in small cubes)
- Make ready 2 medium sized onions
- Make ready 1 tbsp ginger paste
- Take 1 tbsp garlic paste
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Get 2 green chilies
- Take 1 medium sized tomato
- Get 1/2 inch cinnamon stick
- Get 1 star anise
- Take 3 green cardamoms
- Prepare 3 cloves
- Make ready 1 tej patta (bay leaf)
- Get 1/2 tsp jeera powder
- Make ready 1 tsp coriander powder
- Make ready 1 tsp garam masala
- Prepare 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Make ready 1/4 tsp hing (asafetida)
- Prepare 1 tsp kasuri methi
- Take 1 tsp red chilli powder
- Make ready For frying Oil + more oil for making curry
Each time when I buy small potato,I end up in making other small potato recipes like small potato curry or small potato biryani. Dry the potatoes on a cloth and heat the ghee or oil. 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:
- 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, 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. 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.
So that’s going to wrap this up with this special food dum aloo recipe. Thank you very much for reading. I am confident that you can make this at home. There’s gonna be more interesting food in home recipes coming up. Remember to bookmark this page in your browser, and share it to your loved ones, friends and colleague. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!