Wednesday 26 September 2012

Dumdaar dum aloo

Baby potatoes, I always like making something with them and recently i spotted them at a local Reliance Fresh store so that very night i bought them i had to prepare Dum aloo. I gave it a little bit of my twist to it from the regular one.

Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 25 minutes
Serves: 4


Ingredients:

1. Baby potatoes 1/2kg
2. Tomatoes 3-4
3. Green chillies 2-3
4. Dry red chillies 3-4
5. Saunf 1/2tsp
6. Dhania powder 1tsp
7. Jeera seeds 1tsp
8. Ginger garlic paste 1tbsp
9. Coconut shreeded 2tbsp
10. Salt
11. Cardamom 2 pods
12. Cloves 3-4 pods
13. Cinnamon stick 1inch
14. Pepper corns 4-5 corns
15. Poppy seeds 1tsp
16. Oil
17. Water
18. Coriander leaves


Method: 

1. Wash the baby potatoes well and poke them with fork and pressure cook with a little bit of salt.
2. Grind tomatoes, cinnamon stick, cardamom pods, clove pods, pepper, coconut, saunf, green chillies and dry red chillies and poppy seeds to a fine paste.
3. Heat oil in a kadhai and add jeera seeds once they splutter add ginger garlic paste and saute.
4. Now add the grind paste and let it cook till raw smell disappears.
5. Once done add dhania powder and mix well.
6. Now add the peeled and cooked baby potatoes, salt (be careful if you've already added salt while cooking potatoes) and mix well. Add water if required.
7. Close the kadhai and let it cook for about 3-4 minutes. keep stirring in  between.
8. Garnish with corainder leaves and serve hot with chapathi or parantha.







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