Dahi Aloo is a quick and easy yogurt-based potato curry flavored with aromatic spices. It's a quick curry that takes less than 10 minutes. This curry is gluten-free, too.
This is one of the most popular fasting or vrat recipes during Navratri. Dahi aloo or dahi wale aloo sabzi is a potato dish cooked in curd as a gravy and other spice mix. You can make this curry on regular days with onions and garlic, or customize it to create a fasting-friendly recipe.
Dahi Aloo Recipe
This is a popular dish in North India. In dahi aloo, we simmer potatoes in a curd or yogurt-based curry. The curd gravy is seasoned with aromatic spices. We use regular Indian spices to flavor the curry. However, for the fasting recipe, you need to customize it by eliminating ingredients that are not permissible during fasting days, such as turmeric powder and hing.
How to make dahi aloo?
Ingredients-
boiled potatoes, yogurt, ginger, green chilies, coriander leaves
spices - cumin seeds, ground cumin, coriander powder, red chili powder, turmeric powder (skip for fasting dish), hing (skip for fasting recipe), salt or rock salt
Instructions
Break the potatoes roughly into bite-sized pieces. Or dice them into bite-sized pieces and roughly mash a few of them.
Add water to the curd and whisk until smooth.
Now heat the oil in a pan. Add cumin seeds and asafoetida (hing), and let them crackle. Add chopped ginger and green chilies, and sautรฉ for 20-30 seconds.
Now add the spices and stir for 5 - 10 seconds. Keep on a low flame to avoid burning the spices.
Immediately add the yogurt mix or the buttermilk and keep stirring continuously until it starts to simmer. Once it starts to simmer, add roughly mashed/ broken pieces.
Simmer for 5 - 6 minutes on a low flame. Turn off the heat and add finely chopped coriander leaves.
Similar Recipes
Read other vrat recipes on the blog: Kuttu Chips, Kuttu Aloo Tikki, Aloo Jeera, Aloo Tomato, Sama Chawal Khichdi, Sabudana Khichdi, Sabudana Vada, Sabudana Kheer, Fruits Raita, Lauki Launj (halwa).
Tips for perfect dahi wale aloo sabzi
1. Use boiled potatoes for this recipe.
2. To make the gravy thicker, mash one potato roughly.
3. Also, whisk the curd to avoid curdling.
4. Another thing to keep in mind when making any curd-based gravy is to stir continuously until it starts to boil. Otherwise, it will curdle.
5. Add salt after the mixture starts boiling.
Dahi Aloo or Vrat Wale Dahi Aloo Curry
Dahi Aloo | Dahi Wale Aloo | Vrat Wale Dahi Aloo
Ingredients
- 4 medium potatoes boiled
- 1 cup curd whisked
- 1 - 1.5 cups water to dilute the curd thickness
- 1 tsp cumin seed
- 1 inch ginger finely chopped
- ยผ tsp hing (asafoetida) skip for fasting recipe
- 2 tsp coriander powder
- 1 tsp red chilli powder
- ยฝ tsp turmeric powder skip for fasting recipe
- 2 - 4 tbsp coriander leaves finely chopped
- 2 green chillies finely chopped
Instructions
- Roughly break or mash the boiled potatoes.
- Heat oil in a pan. Add cumin seeds and let it splutter.
- Add chopped ginger, green chillies and all spices. Stir for 10 - 15 seconds.
- Add whisked curd to the pan and stir continuously.
- Stir until it starts to boil. Then add diced and roughly mashed potatoes.
- Season with salt and simmer for 5 minutes on medium flame.
- Turn off heat. Garnish with fresh coriander leaves.
- Dahi Aloo is ready to serve.
Notes
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