Dum Aloo in Microwave

You already know how to cook Dum Aloo the usual way. If you don’t, then refer to this recipe. Here we are presenting you with a recipe on how you can make Dum Aloo in microwave. It would be easier to make this dish in an oven. Also, the process will be quicker and a little less fussy.

Ingredients

• Potatoes: 8-10 (medium sized)
• Tomato Puree: 2
• Cloves: 2
• Cinnamon: 2-3
• Cardamom: 1
• Cream: ¼ cup
• Sugar: ½ teaspoon
• Ghee: 1 teaspoon
• Salt: to taste
• Mawa or Khoya: 50 grams
• Cashew Nuts: 4
• Raisins: 6
• Green Chilies: 4
• Onions: 2
• Ginger: 1 inch long
• Red Chilies: 4-5
• Garlic: 4-5 cloves
• Turmeric Powder: ½ teaspoon

Method

1. Cut onions, ginger and 3 green chilies and soak red chilies.
2. Make a mixture of onions, ginger, green chilies, red chilies, garlic, and turmeric powder.
3. Grind and make a paste of the above ingredients. This paste will serve as dum aloo gravy.
4. Peel potatoes and pierce with a pointed object. Soak them in salty water for an hour.
5. Heat the soaked potatoes and a cup of water for 7-8 minutes at the micro high temperature.
6. Let them cool. Make a hole in each of the potatoes for stuffing.
7. Mix mawa, cashew nuts, raisins and 1 green chili (chopped to make stuffing.
8. Fill the potatoes with stuffing and cover with the mashed pulp you have taken out while hollowing.
9. Take ghee, garam masala and gravy paste in a pan and heat them at micro high for 5 minutes.
10. Cook the above mixture again for 4-5 minutes at micro 450.
11. Add tomato puree, cream, salt and sugar.
12. Cook the mixture again for 4-5 minutes at micro 450.
13. Add stuffed potatoes in the gravy and also water as per need.
14. Now cook the potatoes for 3-4 minutes at micro 450.
15. Dum aloo is ready now. Garnish it with chopped coriander leaves.