Dum Aloo Recipe | How to make dum aloo
Dum aloo is a delicious slow-cooked potato curry dish. That tastes delicious and is easy to prepare.
Servings: 4 People
Ingredients
- 500 gm small potatoes aloo
- 3-4 tbsp oil
- 3-4 green chilli
- 2 medium size tomatoes
- 2 inch ginger
- 1 bowl curd
- 2 medium size onion
- cumin seeds
- salt
- haldi powder
- red chilli powder
- garam masala
- Kasuri methi
- elaichi
- dal chini
- kali mirch
- laung
- hing
- cream
- coriander leaves
Instructions
Preparing Potaotes
- Boil the potatoes and peel the skin off them.
- Take a fork and poke some holes in the potatoes. So that the potatoes absorb the flavour of the masala.
- Add ½ tsp salt, 1/2 tsp haldi powder, and ½ tsp red chilli powder. And mix them well.
Shallow frying of potatoes
- Turn on the gas and heat the pan.
- Add 3 tbsp oil and heat it.
- Add all the masala coated potatoes to it.
- Shallow fry them on medium flames.
- Take them out in the tissue paper. So that the extra oil is absorbed by tissue paper.
Making Dum Aloo
- In the same pan add the khade masale dal chini, kali mirch, laung and elaichi. There is no need to add the oil. Use the leftover oil for this.
- Add ½ tsp cumin seeds and cook it a little bit.
- After that, add 2 pinches of hing. And cook it a little bit.
- Add roughly chopped green chillies and ginger to it and mix it well. Cook it a little bit.
- Now, add roughly chopped onion to it. And cook it for 1-2 minutes or cook until they become soft.
- Add roughly chopped tomatoes to it. And cook it for 2-3 minutes.
- Add ½ tsp haldi powder, ½ tsp red chilli powder, and 1 tsp salt and mix it well.
- Cook the masala for 1-2 minutes.
- Remove the mixture to the plate for cooling down.
- Add mixture in the mixer jar and make a smooth paste of it.
- In the same pan, add 1 tsp oil and heat it.
- Add the mixture paste to it. And cook it for 1 minute.
- Add kasuri methi and ½ tsp garam masala to it. And mix it well.
- Cook the masala.
- Add curd to the pan and mix it well for 1-2 minutes on the low medium flame.
- Add all the shallow fry potatoes to it.
- Mix it well.
- Put a little bit of water on it.
- Cover the lid. And Cook dum aloo on high flame for 1-2 minutes.
- Take out dum aloo in the serving bowl.
- Garnish it with cream or malai on top of it.
- And garnish it with fresh coriander leaves.
