Kashmiri Dum Aaloo
INGREDIENTS
1. Baby Potatoes, boiled, peeled and lightly scratch them with fork on all sides: 200 gms (if normal potato, boil, peel and cut into chunks and scratch lightly on its sides)
2. Salt: to taste
3. Sugar: 2 pinches
4. Water: as required for the gravy
5. Oil: 2 tbspns
6. Butter: 2 blobs
FOR PASTE- 1: [RAW PASTE]
Onions: 2 big [if small, take 8 to 10 shallots]
Tomatoes: 2 medium
Kashmiri red chilly: 2 nos
FOR PASTE- 2: [SAUTE AND GRIND PASTE]
Onions: 2 big
Tomatoes: 2 medium
Kashmiri red chilly: 2 nos
Ginger: 2 inch size
Garlic: 4-5 cloves
Cashews: 5-7 nos
Spice Powders:
Turmeric powder: 1 tspn
Coriander and cumin powder: each 2 tspns
Garam masala powder: 2 tspn
Kashmiri red chilly powder: 2 tspns + 1 tspn for sauting potatoes separately.
To Garnish
Kasuri Methi: a handfull
To Temper:
Bay leaves, cloves, cinnamon, fennel seeds and jeera
METHOD
1. As said above, boil potatoes, peel them and lightly scratch them with fork on all sides.
Heat a kadai, add oil and add 1 tspn Kashmiri red chilly powder and turmeric powder and saute the potatoes till roast and keep them aside. Add 2 pinch salt to it while sauteing.
2. FOR PASTE- 1: [RAW PASTE], smoothly grind all the ingredients mentioned under raw paste. Keep it in mind, RAW PASTE!!
3. FOR PASTE- 2: [SAUTE AND GRIND PASTE], heat a kadai [you can use the same kadai, in which u sauted potatoes], add oil, add every items mentioned under "saute and grind paste" and saute well and cool it completely. Grind as a smooth paste.
4. Add oil and then butter; put all the ingredients mentioned under 'to temper'. Saute for a min. Add the "SAUTE AND GRIND PASTE" first and saute for few mins, after 2 mins, add "RAW PASTE" saute well for 5 mins.
5. Add the crispy and roasted potatoes, mix well. Add required water for the gravy consistency. Add salt for the entire dish and 2 pinch sugar. Close the kadai with a lid and cook for 10-15 mins in a medium flame.
6. Crush a handful of kasuri methi and garnish the gravy, close with a lid again and simmer completely the dish for 5 mins and then turn off.
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