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. Nowadays we all are concerned about our diet and hence deep frying potatoes can be skipped or we can do shallow frying so that original taste remains in the dish. The main ingredient to bring in more taste to the gravy is cashews. Cashew paste gives rich flavour to the gravy. We can alternate cashews with almonds or poppy seeds also. Dum Aloo can be served with any pulao varieties or with any Indian Bread. Lets see how to concoct this tasty dum aloo.
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| Dum Aloo | Aloo Dum |
Preparation time and Yield :
| Preparation time | 15 mins |
| Cooking time | 1 hour |
| Servings | 4 |
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| Dum Aloo | Aloo Dum |
Ingredients:
| Baby Potatoes | 18-20 |
| Onion | 2 |
| Tomato | 2 |
| Green Chilli | 1 |
| Cashews | 20 |
| Red Chilli Powder | 1/2 teaspoon |
| Cumin Powder | 1/2 teaspoon |
| Coriander Powder | 1 teaspoon |
| Garam Masala | 1/2 teaspoon |
| Yoghurt | 1/4 Cup |
| Salt | To Taste |
* 1 cup = 250 ml
For Seasoning:
| Oil | 1 tablespoon |
| Bay Leaf | 1 |
| Fennel Seeds | 3/4 teaspoon |
| Cinnamon Stick | 1 inch piece |
| Cloves | 2 |
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| Dum Aloo | Aloo Dum |
Method:
- Soak the cashews in warm water for 15 minutes. Drain the water after 15 minutes and grind the cashews to a nice paste. Pressure cook the baby potatoes allowing 2 whistles and peel the skin of the cooked potatoes and keep it ready
- Finely chop the onions and green chillies and grind the onions and green chillies to a nice paste
- Bring about 2 cups of water to boil and add the tomatoes and close it with a lid. After 10 minutes, take out the tomatoes from hot water and peel the skin and puree it in the mixer
- Heat oil in a pan and shallow fry the baby potatoes till they get nicely roasted in all the sides. Take these fried potatoes from flame and keep it aside in a bowl
- Heat the pan with oil and add the seasoned ingredients and saute it for a minute. Next add the onion-green chilli paste along with salt and saute it for 5 minutes till the raw smell of the onion goes off.
- Next add the tomato puree and allow the tomato puree to cook for 5 minutes in low flame.
- Meanwhile, take a bowl and add yoghurt along with spice powder and mix well.
- When the raw smell of the tomato goes off and the oil starts oozing out, add the yoghurt with spice and give a good stir.Next add cashew paste and cooked and peeled baby potatoes and and mix well and adjust the salt.
- Finally add chopped coriander leaves and keep the gravy in low flame for another 10 minutes. Then remove the gravy from flame
- The mouth-watering Dum Aloo is now ready to serve with any Indian Bread or with any Pulao
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| Dum Aloo | Aloo Dum |