Dum Aloo Lakhnavi
Ingredients Needed
For the Potato Paneer Balls
Mashed potatoes – 2 cups
Crumbled paneer – 1 cup
Roasted Cumin powder – 1/2 tsp
Garam masala – 1 tsp
Salt to taste
For the Fried Potatoes
Diced potatoes – 1/2 cup
Oil for deep frying
Salt a tiny pinch
For the Gravy
Butter – 2 tbsp
Onions – 2 cups (puree)
Tomato puree – 2 cups
Ginger Garlic paste – 1 tsp
Roasted Cumin powder – 1/2 tsp
Garam Masala – 1/2 tsp
Salt to taste
Chili powder – 1 tsp
Kasuri Methi – 2 pinches
Milk – 1 cup
Cream – 1/2 cup
How to make the Dum Aloo Lakhnavi
MW the potatoes and soak in water for the skin to peel off well. Mash with a fork when it is still hot.
For the balls, take the mashed potato in a bowl, add crumbled paneer, cumin powder, garam masala, salt and mix well.
Now dice the potatoes for the stuffing and deep fry till done. Remove and slightly sprinkle salt over it.
Pinch out small balls of the mashed potatoes, flatten in the center, stuff with a teaspoon of the fried potatoes and enclose well, making sure the ball is tightly packed. Continue with the rest and shallow fry in oil. Deep frying this will make the balls lose the shape. You can even fry these in panniyaram pan.
Keep it aside till the gravy is done.
For the Gravy
Heat a nonstick pan with butter, saute ginger garlic paste, then add the onion puree. Fry for few minutes. Then add all the spice powders and combine well. Continue cooking for another 5 mins.
Next, add the tomato puree and cook on high till the tomato puree gets cooked well.
When the tomato onion mix becomes thick and nicely cooked, add the milk and 1 cup water to get a thick gravy.
Finally, add the cream and Kasuri methi and cook for 2 mins. Add few koftas to the gravy and simmer.
Add the rest when serving the gravy.
Note:
Since we do not bind the koftas with anything else, the koftas are soft and will disintegrate into the gravy. However, that tastes awesome like this.
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17 comments
It is surely a complex recipe. But the way you have explained it, it sounds amazing. I think the gravy looks so creamy because of the disintegrated paneer koftas..
The recipe does look complicated and isn't it nice when a flopped recipe tastes awesome in a new form!!
Many a times even my paneer aaloo koftas disintegrate and we all love them..I can understand what you are saying..good one Valli.
Btw, I had to read the recipe twice twice to understand the complexity of the recipe 🙂 I thought you would stuff paneer in potato but it is the other way rounds, potato bites stuffed in a mashed potato paneer outer covering. Nice idea
Sounds very delicious, my kids will definitely enjoy this dum aloo lakhnavi. Potato and paneer koftas who will say no to it.
Potato n paneer are one amazing combo ! A dish well done …
Looks wonderful, Valli. Sometimes appearances are deceiving! But the gravy looks rich and tempting.
potato stuffed with paneer wow.. Mishaps turning into hit is great naa.. love that
Can understand Valli how much frustration is there when koftas fell apart, whatever hurdles may be, koftas in the creamy gravy look tempting. love to have with naan.
Potatoes in kofta and fried forms sounds like a double dhamaal in that yummy gravy curry.
I had heard of Kashmiri and Punjabi version, this Lakhnavi version is new to me. Mashed potatoes seasoned and made into rounds is such a great idea!!
Tell me about complicating and over-complicating dishes. I've had so many occasions when everything completely disintegrated into the hot oil while deep frying. One time I had to dump out the oil from the pan to strain the oil and get whatever I was frying 🙂
Lucknowi kofta curry looks amazing.
Paneer and potato are my two favorites for a side dish. And your dish looks amazing. I have got to try this!
I am really scared to fry koftas as I have many times ruined the whole oil. The paneer and potato kofta sounds awesome. Loving all the subzis you are posting 🙂
Paneer and Potato is a superhit combo Valli – however it turns out, it is loved by all.
The paneer potato kofta in that humble gravy looks too tempting.i am literally drooling here. Once my koftas or pakoda I do not remember exactly disintegrated in the curry and since that day I am adding all kind of kofta like things in the end after removing the curry from heat.
That is one rich gravy valli! Paneer stuffed kofta’s totally droolicious!!!