Dahi Aaloo | Potato in Yogurt Gravy

Dahi Aaloo | Potato in Yogurt Gravy | Thakur Barir Ranna

Today sharing a Traditional Bengali dish which was very famous in Tagore Family. Hope you understood what do I mean to say about Tagore Family ! Tagore Family means the leading Family of Kolkata before 300 years of history. Rabindra Nath Tagore who born in this family. As this family was a Royal in culture and literature. At the same time they were very broad minded about the world resources like world Culture, World Literature and in case of World Food of course. Yes they were really a fond of authentic cuisines. But for them still they had lots of dishes or foods which are carrying the impressions and signature of Royal Tagore Family.

So today sharing a Lovely Authentic and Traditional Recipe from the book of "Thakur Barir Ranna" name Dahi Aaloo. I know very well that you will love it definitely. Its really a quick and easy recipe but really tasty one. It goes very nicely with Plain rice or Chapathi / Roti. To prepare it you need very few ingredients at all. And as it is cooking with very minimal oil and spices , it si something like healthy too.So friends lets try it now an Authentic Traditional Bengali Dish.

Dahi Aaloo | Potato in Yogurt Gravy | Thakur Barir Ranna

Recipe by Nabanita Das

Prep time: 15 mins
Cook time: 15 mins

Ingredients

500 gm Baby Potato (Boiled)
200 gm Yogurt
2 tbsp Roasted Cumin Powder
1 tsp Red Chili Powder
1 pinch Asafoetida
1 tsp Ghee/Clarified Butter
4 tbsp Mustard Oil
Salt to taste
Sugar to taste
1 tsp Besan/ Gram flour
2 tsp Turmeric Powder
3 tbsp Coriander Leaves finely Chopped(optional)

Cooking Directions

Put yogurt into a bowl and mix salt , sugar and red chili powder and whip it.
Add besan and mix well.
Heat mustard oil in a kadai.
Add boiled Potato,turmeric powder and fry until color turns into golden.
Add yogurt mixture to it and mix well.
Adjust seasoning if needed.
Cook until its like gravy type.
Heat ghee in other tadka pan for temper.
Add asafoetida and pour it into the potato gravy ,mix well.
Now sprinkle roasted cumin powder mix and cover for sometimes.
If you like you can add little chopped coriander leaves.it is optional.
Serve with plain rice accompanied by dal or with roti as well as paratha.

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