Potatoes and ridged gourd poppy seeds paste. I love to dry grind my poppy seeds along with a dry red chili in a coffee grinder and then add little water to make a paste of it. If you have a wet grinder you can make your. Now, we Bengalis love our white poppy seeds (khus khus in hindi and posto in Bengali).
It is not because it is very tasty but it is actually available throughout the year in Bengal.
My mom used to make this as a quick fix meal.
This is Potol Posto or Pointed Gourd in Poppy Seed Paste.
You can cook Potatoes and ridged gourd poppy seeds paste using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Potatoes and ridged gourd poppy seeds paste
- It's 2 of gourd sliced.
- Prepare 2 of Potatoes cut into cubes.
- Prepare 2 tbsp of poppy seeds paste.
- Prepare 2-3 of green chillies chopped.
- You need To taste of salt and sugar.
- It's As needed of oil.
This is a list of poppy seed pastries and dishes. Poppy seed is an oilseed obtained from the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum). The tiny kidney-shaped seeds have been harvested from dried seed pods by various civilizations for thousands of years. Ridge Gourd & Shrimp in Poppy Seed Paste.
Potatoes and ridged gourd poppy seeds paste step by step
- Heat oil and add gourd and saute well till moisture dries up.
- Add Potatoes and saute well.
- Add salt and turmeric powder and cover.
- Now add poppy seeds and green chillies.
- Add sugar and mix,serve it with rice.
Ridgegourd and Potatoes in a Poppy seeds paste. The typical Jhinge Posto in the Bengali kitchen is a vegetarian or niramish dish with Jhinge(ridge gourd), potatoes and posto/poppy seeds paste. Aloo posto - potatoes cooked in poppy seed paste, with mustard oil and panch phoron tempering. A simple, delicately flavored Bengali dish. Poppy seeds are rich in minerals and contain fine oils - when soaked and ground, these tiny seeds lend a fragrant nuttiness to potatoes.
