Dum Aloo. - Asmi's Food & Spices

Preparation time 20 minutes

Cooking time ½ hour

Total time 1 hour

Serve 6

Type of Recipe: Curry

Name of author: Asmi Kadam

Ingredients:

15 small size potatoes ( Baby Potatoes)
2 large size chopped onion
2 chopped tomatoes
7 to 8 garlic
1 inch ginger
8 to 10 cashew
4 dry red chilies
1 tablespoon cumin
4 to 5 cloves
Small piece cinnamon
2 bay leaf
1 green cardamom
1 chopped green chili
½ cup Curd
1 tablespoon red chili powder
½ teaspoon turmeric
1 tablespoon garam masala powder
1 tablespoon cumin coriander powder
Salt
Chopped coriander
2 glass of water

Method:

Wash potatoes, and boiled them in water. Add ½ teaspoon of salt it at the time of boiling.

In a kadai, add oil. Once oil heated, add Chopped onion, garlic, ginger and cashew. Sauté well till change the color. Once onion change the color, add Chopped tomatoes, dry red chili and salt. Mix well. Switch off the gas after tomato cooks.

Now add all this mixture in a mixture jar. Grind it till fine paste.

Now peel the potatoes. Make holes through fork in potatoes. In a kadai add some oil. Add boiled potatoes in it. Sauté well till potatoes golden brown.

Now remove those potatoes from kadai. Now in a same kadai, add cumin, cinnamon stick, cloves, bay leaves and chopped green chilies.

Now add masala paste, sauté well till masala removed all the oil. Keep the gas on a slow flame. Now add 1 teaspoon cumin coriander powder and garam masala powder in it mixes well.

In a bowl add curd, red chili powder, turmeric, cumin coriander powder and garam masala powder. Mix well. Add this mixture into onion tomato mixture. Sauté well.