Dum Alu / Dum Aloo

Ingredients  

Boiling 

200 gm baby potatoes

1 tsp salt

3 cups water 

For Paste 

2 nos Onion

1 tbsp chopped ginger 

10 nos cashew nuts 

6 nos garlic

1/2 tsp fennel 

For Gravy 

1 no cinnamon 

2 nos cloves 

3 nos cardamom

2 tbsp ghee 

2 nos Bay leaf 

1/2 tsp cumin 

1/2 tsp turmeric 

1/2 tsp kashmiri chilli powder 

1/2 tsp coriander powder 

1/2 tsp garam masala powder 

5 tbsp Curd 

Salt - to taste 

1 tbsp coriander leaves ( chopped) 

Method 

1. Soak the cashew nuts in hot water 

2. Wash and Boil the baby potatoes, cool it then peel and keep it ready 

3. Make a paste with cashew nuts, ginger, garlic, onion and fennel 

4. Add the curd in paste then make a smooth paste 

5. Heat the ghee then add the cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, bay leaf and cumin

6. Keep in low flame then add the paste, cook it for 15 mins, stir it every 2 mins 

7. Add the chilli powder and other all above powder masalas into it 

8. Add the boiled baby potatoes into the gravy 

9. Close the lid and sealed with dough or silver foil then cook it in dum cooking  for 10 mins 

10. Remove the dum then garnish with coriander leaves