Aloo Posto Recipe
Aloo Posto Recipe
Cuisine: BengaliAloo Posto Recipe: Aloo Posto is a traditional Bengali dish made with potatoes (aloo) cooked in a paste of poppy seeds (posto) and spices. It’s a popular comfort food in Bengal.
Ingredients
2 green chillies
5 – 6 medium potatoes
1/2 tsp sugar
1 tsp pure ghee
2 tbsp mustard oil
4 tbsp poppy seeds (khuskhus)
salt to taste
1/2 tsp onion seeds (kalonji)
Directions
- Take off and cut the potatoes into one-inch-sized pieces.
- Keep them in water.
- Soak poppy seeds in one cup of warm water for 15-20 minutes.
- Remove and grind to a fine paste.
- Heat up mustard oil in a pot till it reaches the smoking point.
- Remove, cool, and heat the oil again on medium heat.
- Mix in kalonji and stir-fry briefly.
- Mix in potato pieces
- Stir fry on medium heat for 5 minutes, stir frequently.
- Mix in the poppy seeds paste,
- Stir and mix in half a cup of water,
- Cover and stir fry on low heat till the potatoes are done.
- Take off the lid, mix in salt, sugar and slit green chillies.
- Continue to stir fry for a minute more
- Or till potatoes are completely cooked,
- Stir in desi ghee and serve hot.
