This recipe is also available in Hindi (हिंदी)


Take 12 potatoes.

Boil them in a cooker for one whistle

Peel off the skin

Make holes in the potatoes with a toothpick so that it is able to absorb the spices well

Fry the potatoes in mustard oil at medium flame till slight golden brown from both the sides.

Remove the potatoes in a tissue paper and let them cool down

Prick them with a toothpick again.

Again fry them in oil until golden brown

Now in one kadhai take 2 Tbsp of mustard oil and let it heat till it’s raw smell goes away. Now add cumin , cinnamon , cardamom and cloves and fry for 30 seconds.

Add hing and fry for another 30 seconds

Add kashmiri red chilli powder, fry for a second

Then immediately add 2 Tbspn of water and give a good mix.

Lower the flame/turn off flame and start adding curd and parallely keep whisking so that curd shouldn’t get curdled. Now add dry ginger powder and fennel powder , mix well and bring to boil at low flame

Add salt as per taste. Now will add 1 and a half cups of water

Bring to boil

Add the fried potatoes .

Cook till 1/4th of water remains .Turn off the flame.

Your Dum aloo is ready to be served. Enjoy!!!