Dum Aloo || Punjabi Dum Aloo || Restaurant style Punjabi Dum Aloo

Punjabi dum aloo is tasty, flavored gravy recipe prepared  with baby potatoes. Aloo/Potato is one of the favourite veggie to all and it's kids favourite. It's been long time I did not prepared aloo recipes at home so thought to buy it, found these baby potatoes in Wednesday market @Jolarpet. Half part of it I prepared Potato fry(will post recipe ASAP) and remaining dum aloo Punjabi style. We all regularly prepare potato fry at home. Try this Punjabi style dum aloo for any occasions and grab your guest attention, as it is very tasty and very flavourful. 

  Punjabi dum aloo and Kashmiri dum aloo recipes looks very similar but the difference is - in Punjabi dum aloo we use tomato and cashew nuts paste where as it's not used in Kashmiri dum aloo. Wait for time I will post Kashmiri dum aloo too ASAP🤗😍.  For this dum aloo we use baby potatoes, if you donot find it in your area you can also use normal potatoes by cutting it into half 😋.Just donot miss the taste of the recipe because of that reason 😁😍. 

Let's start recipe... 

                   Punjabi Dum Aloo

Preparation Time : 10 minutes
Cook Time : 20 to 30 minutes
Serves : 3 
Category : Gravies
Recipe Cuisine: Punjabi
Main ingredients :Baby potatoes 
Author : ArunaSarasChandra

Ingredients

Baby potatoes - 12

For potato coating

Red chilli powder - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Salt - a pinch
Oil - 3 tsp(to shallow fry)

For gravy

Oil - 1 tsp
Onions - 1 (big size or 2 medium)
Ginger - 1/2 inch
Garlic - 2 cloves
Elachi - 1 
Clove - 2
Cinnamon stick - 1/2 inch
Tomato - 2
Cashew nuts - 5

For dum aloo

Oil - 4 tsp
Butter - 2 tsp
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Crushed fennel seeds - 1/2 tsp
Kasuri Methi - 1 tsp
Black pepper - 5
Bay leaf - 1/2

Red chilli powder - 1 tsp

Coriander powder - 1 tsp
Garam masala - 1/2 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Salt as per taste 
Water - 1 cup

Instructions 

1) Wash baby potatoes and cook it for 1 whistle and remove its skin once it becomes cool to room temperature.

2) Now poke all the boiled potatoes using fork so that potatoes absorb masala well. 

3) Now add red chilli powder, turmeric powder salt and 1/2 tsp of oil to the potatoes. 

4) saute everything well and rest it for 5 minute so that masala will coat well to potatoes. 

5) Take a pan add  3 tsp of oil let it heat for a second and add coated potatoes and shallow fry it on medium to low flames till it becomes roast as shown below and take the fried potatoes into plate and keep it aside. 

6) In the same pan add 1 more tsp of oil and add elachi, clove, dalchini, ginger, garlic one after other and fry it for a second. Then add chopped onions and salt fry till onions changes color. 

7) Let the above cool and take it into mixer jar and grind it smooth paste and take it into cup. 

8) Take a pan add 3 tsp of oil and 1 tsp of butter let it heat for a second then add cumin seeds, crushed fennel seeds(saunf), pepper,bay leaf, crushed kasuri Methi fry it well.

9) Then add red chilli powder, turmeric, coriander powders and garam masala powder fry everything well in low flames otherwise masala will burn. 

10) Now add above onion paste into masala, mix everything well. 

11) cook the above till oil oozes out. 

12) Meanwhile prepare tomato puree.Take a mixer jar add chopped tomatoes, cashew nuts and grind it smooth paste and keep it ready. 

13) Once oil starts oozes out add tomato, cashew nut puree mix everything well. 

14) Mix the above well and cook it for 5 minutes so that tomato  puree will cook well.

15) Now add fried baby potatoes, and 1 cup of water into above gravy, mix everything well and cook it on medium to low flames for 5 to 10 minutes by closing lid. 

16) Atlast add 1 tsp of butter and coriander leaves mixeverything well and take it into serving bowl. 

Yummy, delicious and flavored Punjabi style dum aloo is ready to serve 😋😋. We can have this Punjabi dum aloo with any flavored biryani's/pulaos  roti's. I had it with plain rice with dollop of ghee, onion slices and lemon, is n't it taste heavenly 😋😋😋😍❤️. 
  

    
Note

* You can also use poppy sedds (gasgasalu) to prepare gravy. 

* You can also fry tomato along with onions and prepare gravy  paste. 


Tips

** You can deep fry boiled baby potatoes to get crispy taste.

** Do not forgot to poke potatoes, it makes potato obsorb the gravy inside the potato. 

** Adding masalas in oil(step - 9) will gives the gravy good taste and restaurants look to gravy. Keep flames low so that masalas(red chilli powder.. ) do not burn. 

** If you do not find baby potatoes then no problem cut large potato into pieces and use. 

** Using butter will give good taste and texture as it is Punjabi dum aloo😊😋😋. 

Check out few curry  and other recipes👇 

     Hyderabadi Mirchi ka salan
  

 Potato Spring Onion Fry

                              Kaju curry

                       Jeera rice     

                         Green Peas Pulao

               paneer butter masala

                          Kadai Paneer

                      khova paneer 

          Stuffed paneer capsicum

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Spring Onion_Carrot_Badam_soup, Healthy and Tasty soup

Today's recipe is healthy and tasty soup must need in this season. This is my first soup post, I submitted it for soup contest in #MMC fb group. This soup gives very fresh taste of spring onion. Soaked badam is used to get rich thickness and taste to the soup. In order to make more healthy I used grated carrot. Adding a pinch of  pepper powder in soup makes soup healthy it gives spicy with pungent flavour. Have it hot and feel fresh and healthy😋😍. 

  

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    Spring Onion_Carrot_Badam_Soup

Preparation Time : 10 minutes

Cook Time : 15 minutes
Serves : 1 bowl
Category : Soup
Recipe Cuisine: Indian 
Main ingredients : Spring onion
Author : Arunasaraschandra    

Ingredients 

Spring  Onion whites - 1/2 cup
Spring onion greens - 1/2 cup
Grated carrot - 1 cup
Soaked badam - 7
Green chilli - 1/2
Garlic cloves - 2
Butter - 1 tsp
Pepper powder - 1/4 tsp
Water - 11/2 to 2 glasses
Salt as per taste

Instructions

1) Soak badam in water minimum 3 to 4 hrs. Take a pan heat it for a second then add  1 tsp of Butter and chopped garlic cloves. Fry till its raw smell goes away. 

2) Now add chopped spring onion whites, greens and green chilli fry it by adding salt. Spring onions fry quickly, fry it on medium-low flames. 

3) Now add grated carrot to the above mix everything well and cook. 

4) Once the veggies become smooth add 1/2 glass of water and let it boil. 

5) Let the cooked veggies cool. Mean while remove badam skin, take mixer jar add cooked veggies and badam. 

6) Finely grind the above to smooth paste. 

7) Add above paste into pan and 1 glass of water,boil till you get thick consistency. 

8) Atlast add black pepper powder to the above and mix everything well and switch off the flames. 

Yummy and tasty Spring Onion_Carrot_Badam_soup is ready. Serve when it hot and feel fresh and healthy 😋🍵. 

Note

* Adjust water as per your consistency. 

* You can also chopp badam while grinding paste. 

Tips

** Soaked badam is very good for health. And also it gives good taste and thickness to the soup. 

** Grated carrot cook quickly, you can also add boiled carrot too. 

** Add very less quantity of black pepper powder otherwise soups taste and flavour will change. 

Hope you liked this healthy, refreshing and seasonal soup 😍. Also check other starters and other recipes by clicking the link below  pic... 

              Homemade butter

          Potato Spring Onion fry

                            Paneer Tikka

                 Cabbage Manchurian

                      Paneer pinwheels

                   Pepper sev

Gujarat hi Methi Masala Khakhra

               Vaamu Aaku bajji

               Corn flakes chivda

                     Bhakarwadi

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Sweet Pongal, Temple style sweet pongal, Chakkara Pongal, Sakkarai Pongal

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  Happy Bhogi, hope you are all enjoying festival with your family😍❤️. Today's recipe is sweet pongal which is very divine in taste and very aromatic. We can also call this sweet apongal as Chakkara Pongal, Sakkarai pongal. Today I prepared sweet pongal using jaggery, we can also prepare it using sugar. We can also offer this sweet pongal on Durga pooja's,vara Lakshmi pooja's. I used edible camphor to get temple prasadam taste. We can also use clove and grated nutmeg too, to get perfect temple flavour. Very small amount of edible camphor(pachha karpuram) is used. Edible camphor(pachaa karpuram) is differ from normal camphor, so take care while adding. 

  I use milk for preparing this sweet pongal which gives very good taste to pongal. Feel free to add ghee, as taste of pongal depends on the amount of ghee we add.

 Also check Ven pongal/ katee pongal/ hot pongal recipe too. 

 

Ven Pongal / Katee Pongal  

  

               Sweet Pongal

Preparation Time : 10 minutes
Cook Time : 15 minutes
Serves : 1 bowl
Category : Desserts/Sweets
Recipe Cuisine: Indian 
Main ingredients : Rice, 
Moong dal/pesarapappu, Jaggery
Author : Arunasaraschandra       

Ingredients

Rice - 1 glass

Moongdal/Pesara pappu - 1/2 glass

Jaggery - 1 cup

Water - 3 glasses

Milk - 2 glasses

Ghee - 1/4 cup

Camphor - 1/2 pinch

Elachi Powder - 1 tsp

Cashew nuts - 12

Raisins - 12 

Instructions

1) Take a pan add 1/2  glass of Moong dal and fry it on low flames. 

2) Now add 1 glass of rice and dry fry both. 

3) Fry the above till you get nice aroma. Do not burn it. 

4) Now wash the above fried in water well. 

5) Take the above washed into pressure cooker and add 3 glasses of water. 

6) And 2 glasses of milk  mix everything well. 

7) Let the above boil for 2 minutes in high low. 

8) And then close the pressure cooker and cook it for 4 whistles. And rest it till the pressure goes. 

9) Mash the above rice and Moong dal with ladle to get smooth texture. 

10) Now cut the jaggery and add 1/2 glass of water. 

9) Heat the jaggery just to dissolve it in water and strain it using strainer, in order to remove the impurities from jaggery. Add elachi powder,        jaggery syrup to the above mashed rice and lentils mixture. 

10) Also add 1/2 pinch edible camphor to above and mix everything well. The mixture will thickens quickly. Then add hot water or milk and mix it well. 

11) Take a pan add 2 tsp of ghee add cashew nuts fry till it changes color. 

12) Now add raisins fry it become fluffy.

13) Add the above fried nuts, raisins and ghee to the sweet pongal and mix everything well. 

Tasty and delicious Sweet Pongal  is ready. 

    Offer Pongal to Lord Sun and enjoy this Kite Festival with your friends and family. 

Note

* You can also use grated nutmeg and clove to get more divine taste and flavour. 

* You can skip adding milk. 

* Adjust jaggery quantity as per your taste. 

Tips

** Do not close the pressure cooker lid immediately after adding water and milk. Let it boil for 2 minutes and then close it. This process will stops the draining of water from cooker while getting whistle. 

** Adding milk will give good taste and texture. 

** Important point to remember is add edible camphor not ordinary camphor. And very very little amount of edible camphor is added by crushing it with your fingures.

** If you feel your sweet pongal very thick then add hot milk or water and adjust consistency. I prefer adding hot or boiled milk. 

** If you want to have it like dessert then keep it in refrigerator for atleast 2 hr and serve it sool. 

** You can increase or decrease ghee quantity as per your taste. But remember adding good amount of ghee gives you delicious taste and texture to sweet pongal. 

Also check other sweet recipes by clicking the link below pic

                  Ellu Bella Mix

                       Pineapple Sheera

Poha Badam Ladoo

   

                       Ragi Peanut ladoo               
     

Moong dal Kheer

Poha Payasam

Dates & dry fruits burfi

        Sabudana Coconut Ladoo

          Almond Mango Sandesh

Rava Ladoo

  Puffed Rice/Maramarala LAdoo

                        Kaju Katli

Sooji Kakara Pitha

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