Bengali Style Aaloor Dom.........Dum Aaloo

Hello, my fellow foodies. Hope you are doing good and enjoying the cool breezy winter season. It's a mid December, but in Kolkata we don't feel the winter as such. Wrapping a light stole in the evening can protect you from the cold. 

In Portland, USA, we used to get almost 10 months of winter and I used to get fed up with that kind of weather as you have to clothe yourself in jackets and scarfs etc. You can't dress up in your pretty skirts and dresses :( So, in that way I'm happy as I can wear my skirts, tees even in the mid December.....Lolzzzzz

Winter brings many more things with it. You can enjoy so many delicacies like:

• Gajar Ka Halwa (Recipe here)
• Vegetable Croquettes (Recipe here)
• Motor er Kachuri (Peas Kachori)
• Gurer Payesh (Palm Jaggery Rice Pudding)
• Gurer Mishti (Palm Jaggery Sweets) and many more......

From the above list I have already posted few items on the blog and many more are in my bucket. Hope to post their recipes soon. AMEN!!!

Anyway, there is one more item which my family and I enjoy a lot and that is Aaloo r Dom or Dum Aaloo. I have already posted the recipe of Achari Aaloo (Recipe here) which is one of my favorites. This is a more of Bengali style Aalor Dom which you can enjoy with Luchi (Puri) on a cozy Sunday morning.

I like to twist each recipe a bit to give the recipe my personal touch so I did with this recipe too. So, let's go through the recipe to learn more about it and hope you'll like it.

Achari Aaloo.....Pickle Flavored Potatoes

Achari Aaloo.........Aaloo or Potato is very versatile root vegetable which fits into any curry you make. When it comes to Indian cuisine you can see generous use of potatoes. That's why there are so many recipes made with Aaloo whether its Dum Aaloo, Jeera Aaloo, Aaloo Paratha, Samosa and the list is never ending. There's a secret about Bengali's.....they can't imagine their Chicken or Mutton Curries without potatoes........Sssshhhhh

Somehow, I don't like potatoes because it adds lots of extra pounds. So I try to use them as minimum as possible in my daily diet. But, when it comes to Aaloo Paratha or Achari Aaloo I can't resist myself.

Achari Aaloo.....Achar means Pickle in English. But we don't use pickle in this recipe. Instead we use the spices which are used to make pickle to infuse the flavor of pickle. This dish gets its tanginess from Amchur Powder (Dry Mango Powder). You can replace it with vinegar or lime juice. There are many variations of this dish. You can replace potatoes with chicken, mutton, paneer, cauliflower or any other vegetable of your choice.

So, let's start with our finger licking piquant recipe: