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Tandoori Aloo Recipe
Prep Time | 20 minutes |
Cook Time | 20 minutes |
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Ingredients
- 250 grams’ baby potatoes or regular potatoes
- cup ½hung curd or thick curd
- 3 tablespoons low fat cream
- 1 gram tablespoon besan - substitute 1 tablespoon arrow root flour or corn starch or maize flour orflour, corn meal
- 2 teaspoon ginger-garlic paste OR ¾ inch ginger + 5 to 6 small to medium garlic cloves - crushed to a paste in a mortar-pestle
- teaspoon ½ajwain carom seeds
- 1.5 teaspoon to 2Kashmiri red chili powder
- teaspoon ½garam masala powder
- 1 teaspoon chaat masala powder
- 1 teaspoon coriander powder dhania powder
- teaspoon ½kasuri methi - crushed dry fenugreek leaves, optional
- teaspoon ⅛turmeric powder or 2 to 3 pinches of turmeric powder - optional haldi
- 1 to 2 drops of natural colour orange extract optional
- black salt or regular salt as required
- 3 tablespoon oil for pan frying
- oil as required for brushing if grilling
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Instructions
Prepping and marination
- Rinse the potatoes very well. brush or scrub the mud etc. from them.
- First parboil or half cook 250 grams’ baby potatoes. if pressure cooking, then just pressure cook for 1 whistle. drain the potatoes very well.
- Let them become warm and peel them. halve them if they are larger in size. keep aside.
- Take 1/2 cup thick curd or hung curd in a mixing bowl.
- Add the following spices - 2 tsp ginger-garlic paste, 1/2 tsp ajwain/carom seeds, 1.5 to 2 tsp kashmiri red chili powder, 1/2 tsp garam masala powder, 1 tsp chaat masala powder, 1 tsp coriander powder/dhania powder, 1/2 tsp kasuri methi, crushed (optional), 1/8 tsp or 2 to 3 pinches turmeric powder (optional) and black salt as required.
- Mix very well.
- Now add 3 tbsp low fat cream and 1 tbsp besan or gram flour. again mix very well.
- you can also add 1 to 2 drops of natural color orange extract. this is optional.
- Mix again very well.
- check the taste of the marination and add more black salt if required.
- now add the potatoes in the curd marination.
- mix very well. cover and allow to marinate for 30 minutes or for a couple of hours.
Grilling
- Thread the potatoes on a skewer and place them on a tray which has been lined with a foil or butter paper.
- Place the tray in the oven which has been preheated at 250 degrees celsius for 10 to 15 minutes. grill the tikka at the same temperature of 250 degrees celsius till the potatoes become golden with a few charred spots.
- Whilst baking, remove the potatoes once or twice. turn over the skewers and brush with some oil.