- Servings: 2
- Preparation time: 10 minutes.
- Boiling time: 10 minutes.
- Frying time: 15 minutes.
- Cooking time: 8 minutes.
- Total time: 43 minutes.
Chicken is extremely popular in all over world, traditionally Dum style cooking in earlier days into earthen pot sealed with Aata dough, over slow burning coals for hours. Here I am using gas stove.
It is main course recipe with delicious gravy (curry) to be used everyday meal, will be loved by children and adult.
Ingredients:
- Chicken: 300 gm (medium size breast piece).
- Potato: 4 no. (Small)
- Onion: 1 no. (Small)
- Tomato: 1 no. (Small)
- Red chilli powder: 1 teaspoon
- Turmeric powder: half teaspoon
- Coriander powder: 1 teaspoon
- Garam masala powder: half teaspoon
- Ginger: 2-3 “piece
- Garlic: 3-4 flakes
- Whole red chilli: 1 no.
- Green chilli: 2 no.
- Cumin seed: half teaspoon
- Bay leaf: 2 no.
- Salt: 1 ½ teaspoon
- Mustard oil/any cooking oil: 3 tablespoon
- Ghee: one teaspoon (optional)
- Water: 1 cup (as per gravy consistency required)
Preparation:
- Peel off potatoes and cut into equal medium size pieces. Boil the peeled potatoes with chicken, along with ½ teaspoon of salt and bay leaf. Keep aside.
- Grind ginger, garlic, tomato and onion; make fine paste, Keep aside.
Method:
- Take fry pan heat oil in it. When it smokes, put 2 whole chilies, cumin seeds and bay leaf.
- Add boiled chicken and potatoes in it. Stir fry it for 2 -3 minutes, take it out and keep aside.
- Add ground paste Stir it and fry (keep it stirring otherwise it may burn) till oil separates from the masala (About 5 minutes).
- Take a bowl put chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and salt in it, add one tablespoon of water and mix it well, it will become paste.
- Add this paste in the fried masala and stir it., add fried potato and chicken in it. Stir it for 2 minutes.
- Add one cup of hot water and cover it, Lower the flame and heat it about another 5-6 minutes.
- Add Garam masala powder, one teaspoon ghee and put off the flame, Now, chicken potato Dum is ready to serve.
- Serve with fluffy puries or rice.
Chicken aaloo Dum (chicken potato Dum) by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.