The other day I spotted the season’s first baby potatoes in the market, and they were so fresh and tender that I had to get some make DumAloo, a Kashmiri speciality
This dish is a Kashmiri specialty, it's hot and spicy and flavoured with the Kashmiri dry chillis. Dum means cooking under slow continuous heat in a sealed container and alu means potato
The deep dark red color of the gravy is very enticing and is highly flavored with Kashmiri chilli powder, the flavor of which I feel is an acquired taste… not everybody can take its flavor when it is used in higher quantity
DumAloo or Alu Dum is a potato based dish, it is a part of the traditional KashmiriPandit cuisine, from the Kashmir Valley, in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir
Like this instance when I planned to make KashmiriDumAloo with the bag of new potatoes I picked from a farmer’s market on the weekend, but ended up making Achari Aloo, a delicious and simple recipe of roast potatoes with a freshly ground spices used in making Indian pickles