dum
/dʌm
/adjective Indian
Cooked with steam: dum aloo...
- Sample sheek kabab, sink your teeth into tandoori chicken or relish dum ka murgh.
- It is particularly used to flavour dishes cooked by the dum method, i.e. baked in a sealed pot.
- From the much popular dum aloo to rajmah, the ones to look out for are nadir yakkhn or lotus stems in yogurt gravy, tsok vangun which is deep-friend brinjal in tamarind flavoured gravy and haakh, a typical Kashmiri saag made in mustard oil.
Origin
From Hindi dam.
- out of doors
- out-of-fashion
- out-of-fashioned
- outoffice
- out of gear
- out of hand
- out of harm's way
- out of hours
- out of humour
- out of it
- out of joint
- out of line
- out of one's box
- out of one's depth
- out of one's gourd
- out of one's mind
- out of one's senses
- out of one's skull
- out of one's tree
- out of one's way
- out of (or beyond) reach
- out of order
- out of place
- out of plumb
- water chemistry