Simple Way to Prepare Homemade Dum aloo

Dum aloo
Dum aloo

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, dum aloo. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Dum aloo is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Dum aloo is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook dum aloo using 20 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Dum aloo:
  1. Make ready 1/2 kg small aloo
  2. Prepare 2 medium big onions ground in a blender
  3. Get 3 big tomatoes (6 Tesco salad tomatoes)
  4. Make ready 6 cloves garlic
  5. Take 1 inch piece of ginger
  6. Prepare to taste Salt
  7. Take Little sugar
  8. Prepare Tez patta (if available)
  9. Take 1 small spoon haldi
  10. Take 1 tspn dhania powder
  11. Get 2 slit green chillies
  12. Take 1-2 teaspoons red chilli powder (to taste)
  13. Take Garam masala
  14. Prepare 8-10 peppercorns
  15. Take 1 tspn zeera
  16. Prepare Small piece of cinnamon
  17. Take 2 longs (clove)
  18. Get 1 big elaichi (small is ok if unavailable)
  19. Get Dhania patta for garnish
  20. Take 1/2 teaspoon amchoor powder
Instructions to make Dum aloo:
  1. Boil potatoes in pressure cooker with some salt for 2-3 whistles
  2. Peel the potatoes and add salt and a pinch of sugar and leave for 5-10 mins. Salt should be enough to flavour the potatoes so they aren’t left bland
  3. Fry potatoes on a frying pan until lightly golden brown starts coming. Taste potato for salt and add more if needed while cooking.
  4. Blend the onions well
  5. Fry some zeera in a saucepan before adding onions
  6. Put the onions to brown in the saucepan with the tez patta (if using)
  7. Blend tomatoes, ginger and garlic into a paste in the blender
  8. Once onions brown, add tomato purée with ginger and garlic into the onions and fry well
  9. Add haldi, dhania powder and fry until the paste thickens and leaves oil
  10. Add aloos into the paste and cook for 3-4 mins, ensuring each aloo has the paste on it
  11. Boil some water and add 2-3 Nespresso size cups into the mixture (more will be added later to balance cooking and thickness). Turn heat onto slow.
  12. Add green chillies, peppercorn, cinnamon, long, amchoor powder, red chilli powder and elaichi and continue to cook on slow. Add water to balance. Start adding salt to taste and keep checking and adding more as needed. Cover saucepan and leave for some time to allow cooking well.
  13. Once happy with the flavour, add some garam masala and boil and heat through until thickness to taste and then remove to serve
  14. Put dhania patta for garnish. Serve with pooris, laccha parathas or laccha rotis. Add some bhujia on the side for crunch!

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