Aloo Posto
Aloo Posto (Potato cooked in poppy seed paste) is a delicious & popular Bengali recipe generally eaten as a dry accompaniment with a meal of steamed rice and daal. This recipe finds a place with biulir daal (urad daal) in every other Sunday afternoon lunch at our home.
Ingredients:
Ingredients:
- 4-5 medium sized potatoes
- 4 tbsp poppy seeds / posto / khuskhus
- ¼ cup water (to make poppy seeds paste)
- 2 tbsp mustard oil
- 1 tsp panchphoron
- 1 bay leaf / tej patta
- 3 green chillies
- ½ tsp red chilli powder
- ½ cup water
- salt to taste
Procedure:
- Wash, peel and dice the potatoes into one inch sized cubes.
- Take a pan, boil water and steam the potatoes a little (ensure that the potatoes do not become too mushy). Keep aside.
- Soak poppy seeds in 1 cup of boiled water for 30 mins. Drain and put poppy seeds in a blender. Add 1 green chilli, ½ tsp salt and ¼ cup water and blend to form a smooth paste.
- Heat oil in a kadhai. Add bay leaf & panchphoron and let them splutter.
- Reduce the flame. Add the poppy paste, 2 green chillies, red chili powder and salt and stir fry for 3-4 mins.
- Add the semi-cooked potatoes to the poppy paste, mix well and again stir fry for 2-3 mins.
- Add water and cook till the water evaporates and the potatoes are done.
- Transfer in a serving bowl and serve hot with rice and daal.
Tip:
Instead of steaming the potatoes, you can directly cook them with the poppy paste with enough water to cook the potatoes until tender.
heyii thanks a lot for the super-simple receipe....keep up the tastefull work :)
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Sulagna
Recipe was really good
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