Restaurant Style Dum Aloo Recipe

punjabi dum aloo recipe serving on black bowl

Restaurant Style Dum Aloo Recipe

Prep Time 25

Cook Time 50

Additional Time 5

Total Time 1 20

Course Vegetarian

Cuisine north indian

Keyword dum aloo, dum aloo recipe, how to make dum aloo, punjabi dum aloo, restaurant style dum aloo

Servings

Calories 1626

Author Koushik

This punjabi dum aloo recipe is one of the India's most popular restaurant style dum aloo recipe where baby potatoes dum cooked in hot and spicy onion-tomato and yogurt gravy.

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Ingredients

Ingredients For Dum Aloo

400 grams of potatoes
150 grams chopped onions
2 medium-size deseeded tomatoes
60 grams yogurt
5 to 6 tbsp oil
10 to 12 cashew nut
500 ml water to boil

Spices For Dum Aloo

1 tbsp ginger-garlic [paste]
2 to 3 green chili [chopped]
1 bay leaf
1 tsp cumin seed
2 to 3 green cardamom
2 to 3 clove
1 tsp garam masala powder
1 tsp coriander powder
¼ tsp turmeric powder
¼ tsp fennel seed powder
1 tsp Kashmiri red chili powder
1 to 2 tsp sugar
1 tsp black pepper powder
salt to taste
1 tsp Kasuri methi
2 to 3 tbsp coriander leaves[freshly chopped]

Instructions

how to make dum aloo
At first, for preparing the dum allo recipe wash baby potatoes and make them parboiled in a pressure cooker up to 3 to 4 whistles.
Next, drain the potatoes using a strainer and wash them in cold water.
When potatoes become cool a little bit peel them and set them aside
for later usage.
After that gently prick them with a fork without breaking them and place in the mixing bowl.
Now sprinkle some red chili powder, salt, and turmeric powder on potatoes and gently mix them.
Then heat oil in a pan and gently add these boiled potatoes, fry them in a medium-low flame until it becomes crispy and golden brown.
After some time take them out from the pan and place them on a kitchen tissue.
Now for making masala for dum aloo heat oil in a pan and fried chopped onions and tomatoes until it becomes translucent.
Furthermore add ginger garlic paste and cook till the raw smell disappears.
When tomatoes become completely mushy add cashew nut and a dash of water to mix them properly.
Finally, transfer this mixture to a blender to make a smooth tomato-onion puree.
Next, for making dum aloo gravy ,in a pan heat oil and add some whole spices including bay leaf, green cardamom, clove cumin seed, chopped green chili sauté for some time.
Now pour tomato-onion puree and sauté until gravy thickens a little bit.
Also sprinkle some salt, turmeric powder, red chili powder,garam masala powder, fennel seed powder, coriander powder.
Now sauté everything until this aromatic mixture leaving the side of the pan.
After that, add yogurt and sauté continuously until it properly mixes with dum aloo masala.
When the mixture gets thicken completely, pour water into the pan, and mix everything.
Finally, add fried potatoes to this pan, mix it properly with the rest of the spices.
Now, cover the pan with a lid and give a dum cook for 8 to 10 min in low flame.
At this stage, check the taste of salt, if needed add it, also don’t forget to add Kasuri methi and chopped coriander leaves.
Finally, serve this delicious dum aloo recipe with naan, pulao, jeera rice.

Notes

Dum Aloo Recipe Note

While using yogurt don’t use any sour yogurt, also to avoid curdling of yogurt continuously stir with curry until it gets combined.
If you are using large potatoes cut them in ¼ the size which helps to cook them properly.

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