Nepali style Aloo Dum with Chiwda /Poha/ Flattened rice
Nepali style Aloo Dum with Chiwda /Poha/ Flattened rice

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, nepali style aloo dum with chiwda /poha/ flattened rice. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Nepali style Aloo Dum with Chiwda /Poha/ Flattened rice is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Nepali style Aloo Dum with Chiwda /Poha/ Flattened rice is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

Aloo dum is a very popular dish in my country nepal. You can eat this dish by itself or with puri or naan. You can also enjoy it with rice and dal.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook nepali style aloo dum with chiwda /poha/ flattened rice using 18 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Nepali style Aloo Dum with Chiwda /Poha/ Flattened rice:
  1. Make ready 500 gms small size/ new baby potatoes
  2. Take 2 tbsp White Sesame seeds
  3. Take 1 tbsp Poppy seeds (optional)
  4. Take 5 Whole dry chilli or 1&1/2 tsp Kashmiri Lal mirch powder*
  5. Make ready 135 gms onion
  6. Make ready 180 gms tomato
  7. Prepare 1 tbsp Garlic
  8. Make ready 5-6 tbsps mustard oil
  9. Prepare 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
  10. Get as per taste Salt
  11. Get as required water
  12. Prepare 1/2 tsp Paanch Foran * or simply you can use Kalonji only
  13. Prepare Recipe for Paanch Foran/ 5 spice mix is given below
  14. Prepare Nigella seeds/ Kalonji/ kalo jeera
  15. Get Carom seeds /Ajwain
  16. Make ready Fenugreek seeds / Methi ke daane
  17. Take Black Mustard/ Kala Sarso
  18. Prepare Fennel seeds/ saumph ke daane

Flattened rice is rice which is flattened into flat, light, dry flakes originating from the Indian subcontinent. Rice is parboiled before flattening so that it can be consumed with very little to no cooking. Aloo Poha or Potato Poha is a popular breakfast/snack recipe in Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Madhya Pradesh. Learn To Make Aloo Poha aka Kanda Batata Poha, or Potato Poha Recipe with a quick recipe video tutorial.

Instructions to make Nepali style Aloo Dum with Chiwda /Poha/ Flattened rice:
  1. Boil, cool and peel the potatoes, small potatoes get cooked in half an hour in a covered pot.
  2. Soak the red whole dry Chillies in warm water for at least an hour so that it's easy to grind and make a paste. Dry roast the sesame and poppy seeds, it will hardly take time, just a minute or so (do not over roast it and burn it, otherwise it will become bitter).
  3. Once the roasted sesame and poppy seeds cools, grind it dry in the mixer grinder or mortar pestle into a fine powder. Peel and make a paste of the garlic, onion,make a paste of the soaked Chillies and puree of the tomatoes separately in the mixer grinder one by one.
  4. Now heat a kadai, add mustard oil, once it's heated, add the Paanch Foran or Kalonji, once it crackles, add the garlic paste and saute for few seconds, then add the onion paste and saute it for about 10 minutes, then add the tomatoes and saute it for another 10 minutes or so.
  5. In between after adding the Tomato puree add salt as per taste, chili paste, Turmeric powder. As you saute it, if required add little warm water do that it doesn't burn, cook till the raw flavour of the onion and tomato goes off.
  6. After this add the Sesame poppy seeds powder and little warm water (may be 1/4 to 1/2 cup) and cook and saute for about 3 minutes.
  7. Add in the boiled and peeled potatoes and mix it gently so that the potatoes don't break. If required add warm water maybe about 1/2 cup and cook the potatoes in the gravy for another 5 minutes or so. Check the salt, add if required. You can add a little more water depending on the consistency of the gravy you prefer. But we make it a little dry kind so that the gravy is stuck to the potatoes and not a runny kind.
  8. Serve it with chiwda /poha along with chopped onion,green/ red raw Chillies, coriander leaves, lemon wedge and a cup of hot tea. It goes well with Luchi - Bengali style Puri (another favourite combo…recipe link is given below) and Sel Roti- the traditional Nepali roti made of rice flour (shaped like a ring and is lightly sweetened). Bon Appetit!!! - (see recipe)

Poha is a popular dish which is easy to cook. Poha or pohe is flattened rice or beaten rice, de-husked rice and flattened into dry flakes. A convenient food, a travel snacks that will keep fresh for days and poor man's staple when eaten just with plain water, curd or jaggery. It has the right amount of carb that will sustain you enough.. Know how to prepare Poha Chiwda Flattened Rice Chiwda Recipe in Indian Traditional Style.

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