Roasted Aloo Gobi ki sabji

Equipment

• Kadhai

• Electric Tandoor

• OTG

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

Instructions

Roast vegetables

1. Break the florets from the gobi. Cut into half vertically.
2. I always soak gobi florets in water for some time before cooking.
3. Peel wash and cut the potatoes into wedges.
4. Prick wedges with a fork.
5. Toss the vegetables with olive oil and salt.
6. Preheat the tandoor.
7. Spread vegetables evenly on the tandoor plate and roast for 10 minutes on both.
8. Roast for 10 more minutes on top and lastly 5 minutes on the bottom.
9. This time may vary for different tandoors so keep on checking your vegetables while they are roasting.

If you are using an oven

1. keep the vegetables on top rack at 200 C and follow the same process.

For Masala

1. Heat oil in a pan. Add heeng, bay leaves, cinnamon, and jeera to it.
2. When jeera starts to crackle, add onions, green chilies, and ginger and fry till transparent.
3. Add tomatoes, red chili, salt, coriander powder, turmeric and cook for 2 minutes till tomato is cooked.
4. After that add amchoor powder and garam masala and switch off the flame.
5. Add roasted aloo gobi to the prepared masala, mix thoroughly and cook for 2-3 minutes.
6. Roasted aloo gobi ki sabji is ready.
7. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
8. serve hot with Roti, Parantha or Makka ki roti.