Dum Aloo Recipe

Dum Aloo

Though its time consuming and lot of efforts are required but once you get the compliments for your dish all efforts are worth putting :)

Made with loads of Aloo and Love :) 

I prefer to make gravy a day in advance so all masalas are infused and it tastes delicious on the day you plan to eat. 

Preparation Time : 30 minutes
Cooking Time : 60 minutes

Ingredients :

• 10-12 Baby Potatoes or medium sized potatoes (baby potatoes preferred) 
• 2 large onions 
• 2 large tomatoes 
• 12-15 cashew nuts 
• 1 tsp of kashmiri red chili powder 
• 1/2 tsp of  turmeric powder 
• 1/2 tsp of garam masala 
• 1/2 cup of curd or yogurt 
• 1 tsp of fennal seeds 
• 3-4 green chilis 
• oil to shallow fry potatoes 
• salt to taste 
• pinch of asafoetida
• Some ginger
• 8 to 10 cloves of garlic.
• cilantro or kasoori methi

• How to prepare gravy :
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• Grind onion , tomatoes , ginger , garlic , cashews chillis in grinder with little water if required. 
• Heat oil in a pan add gravy and saute the gravy on a medium flame. 
• Add garam masala, kashmiri red chili powder, turmeric powder and curd and saute again 
• Add salt to taste and a pinch of sugar and cook the gravy till you see the oil get seperated from the sides of the pan. Add little water.

Your gravy is ready
Once the gravy is cold enough store the gravy in an air tight container and referigerate it

Boil pototoes either in microwave or pressure cook them with two whistles and remove the skin. If you are using the baby potatoes you can boil them whole but if you are using medium size potatoes you can cut them in half and boil them.
Remove the skin of the potatoes (optional)
Heat oil in a PAN and shallow fry the potatoes till they are golden brown from both the sides.
Make sure the potates are cooked well before you put them in gravy. Add little salt if required and then shallow fry them. You can also deep fry them
Now take another pan or a kadhai and add a tsp of oil and add potatoes first and saute for 5 minutes. Please check again if potatoes are cooked nicely by inserting a tooth pick to check for each potatoes
Now add gravy and add little water and cover the lid and let the dum aloo cook on a medium flame for 20 minutes.
Taste and if you feel the spices are less then add them at this time.
Add kasoori methi and serve hot.
Optional - You can add lemon juice.