Recipe- Delicious Roasted Aloo Gobi

Don’t we all love winters? No sweating, No relying on air conditioning for a decent night’s sleep and no power cuts to endure. I for one definitely love winters more than summers. Aloo gobi ki sabji is a big hit in most of the Indian homes in winters. We are no different so this vegetable preference wise ranks quite high in our house. But, I am sad to say this, only in adults.

Ingredients

1 cauliflower

3 potatoes
2 tbsp olive oil for roasting
1 tbsp oil for cooking( you can use olive oil, refined oil or even mustard oil for this. Mustard oil gives a very nice flavor to aloo gobi)
½ tsp jeera/ cumin seeds
1 stick dalchini/cinnamon
1-2 tej patta/bay leaves
¼ tsp heeng/ asafoetida
2 small onions finely chopped
1 large tomato chopped
2 green chilies chopped
1 piece ginger chopped
salt to taste
¼ tsp turmeric powder
1/2 tsp coriander powder
¼ tsp red chili powder
A pinch of garam masala
¼ tsp amchoor/ dried mango powder
Chopped coriander leaves to garnish

Method

- Break the florets from the gobi. Cut into half vertically. I always soak gobi florets in water for some time before cooking.

- Peel wash and cut the potatoes into wedges. Prick wedges with a fork. Toss the vegetables with olive oil and salt.

- Preheat the tandoor. Spread vegetables evenly on the tandoor plate and roast for 10 minutes on both. Roast for 10 more minutes on top and lastly 5 minutes on the bottom.

- This time may vary for different tandoors so keep on checking your vegetables while they are roasting.

If you are using an oven

- Keep the vegetables on top rack at 200 C and follow the same process.

- Heat oil in a pan. Add heeng, bay leaves, cinnamon, and jeera to it. When jeera starts to crackle, add onions, green chilies, and ginger and fry till transparent.

- Add tomatoes, red chili, salt, coriander powder, turmeric and cook for 2 minutes till tomato is cooked.

- After that add amchoor powder and garam masala and switch off the flame.

- Add roasted aloo gobi to the prepared masala, mix thoroughly and cook for 2-3 minutes.

- Roasted aloo gobi ki sabji is ready. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.

- Serve hot with Roti, Parantha or Makka ki roti.