Recipe of Dum Aloo - How to Make Dum Aloo at Home

C) Spices Used in Preparation of Dum Aloo Recipe

1. Edible oil/Ghee -3/4^th tablespoon
2. Salt – ½ teaspoon or as per taste
3. Turmeric powder – 1/4^th teaspoon (a little for sprinkling on potatoes and rest portion in the main preparation)
4. Kashmiri Chili Powder – 1/4^th teaspoon
5. Coriander powder – ½ teaspoon
6. Fennel powder – ½ teaspoon
7. Kasuri Methi (Dried Fenugreek leaves) powder – ½ teaspoon
8. Garam Masala powder – ½ teaspoon
9. Fresh cream – 50 grams
10. Sugar – ½ teaspoon
11. Whole cumin seeds – A large pinch
12. Bay leaves – 2 in number (of small size)
13. Cloves – 4 in number
14. Whole Cinnamon Stick – ½ inch long (single piece)
15. Whole Black Pepper seeds – 8 to 10 in number
16. Cumin powder – ½ teaspoon
17. Water – 1 cup
18. Coriander leaves – 2 tablespoons for garnishing

How to Make Dum Aloo

Initial Preparation of Aloo in Recipe of Dum Aloo

• Wash the potatoes thoroughly in water and clean its outer surface.
• Now take a deep vessel pan and put it on a medium flame burner. Add 3 cups of normal tap water into the pan and add the potatoes in it and let it boil for 4 to 5 minutes, by covering the lid of the pan.
• Later switch off the burner and take out the potatoes and put them in a plate and allow it to cool at room temperature. Once it becomes cool then peel out its outer surface and prick them by a fork, so that in the time of cooking the taste of spices enters its inner portion.

Gravy preparation in Dum Aloo Recipe

• Now in a non -stick pan take 1 tablespoon oil and put it on a medium flame burner.
• Cut Onion, Ginger and the Tomato into small pieces. When the oil on the pan gets hot then add onion to the pan and fry it for 1 to 2 minutes. Then add ginger pieces, tomato, garlic cloves in it and stir it continuously till its raw pungent smell disappears. Then switch off the burner and allow the mixture to become cool at the room temperature.
• When it becomes cool then transfer the contents to a grinder and grind it till it becomes a smooth paste. Add curd into the contents in the grinder, and grind once more. Later keep the gravy mixture paste aside after removing it from the grinder.

The Final Steps in Recipe of Dum Aloo

• Sprinkle little turmeric powder on parboiled pricked baby potatoes and mix them nicely by hand. Next, put a Karahi or non – stick pan on a low medium flame burner. Add 3 to 4 tablespoons of ghee/oil into it and allow it to get warm.
• Once the ghee/oil gets warmed then put parboiled potatoes in it and stir it gently and fry it till its color changes to golden yellow. Then take them out and put them on a plate and keep it aside.
• Now in the remaining ghee/oil present in the karahi/non- stick pan, add cumin seeds and fry it. Next add Bay leaves, Cinnamon stick (after breaking them into small pieces), Cloves and whole Black pepper to the karahi/pan and fry them a little, till a nice aroma starts to come out.
• Next, add previously prepared gravy mixture (mentioned above) to the contents and stir. Add Turmeric powder, Cumin powder, Coriander Powder, Fennel powder and Kashmiri Chili powder, one by one to the same mixture & mix them uniformly and fry them properly.
• When the oil starts to separate from the mixture, then add fried potatoes in it along with salt and sugar. Cook the contents for another couple of minutes, so that the components get uniformly mixed. Later add 1 cup water in it followed by Garam masala powder. Mix it with the gravy preparation and cover the lid of the pan properly and make the flame very low and cook for 8 to 10 minutes.

• Afterward, switch off the burner. Add Kasuri Methi powder and fresh cream to the preparation. Mix the components uniformly and cover the pan with a lid and keep it for another 5 minutes in this condition.
• Later transfer the Dum Aloo preparation to a serving bowl and spread Coriander leaves on it for garnishing. Dum Aloo preparation is now ready to be served to your friends or family members.
• Here we would like to emphasize that many Brahmins in India, do not take onions and garlic in their diet. For them Dum Aloo Recipe without onion and garlic would be exactly like the Recipe for Dum Aloo described above, we just have to exclude the onion and garlic from the Ingredients of Dum Aloo.