Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, alu posto. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Alu posto is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Alu posto is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
Aloo posto recipe with step by step photos - aloo posto is a traditional Bengali recipe of potatoes in a lightly spiced poppy seeds paste. Of course aloo mean potatoes and posto means poppy seeds in Bengali language. Aloo posto is one of my comfort food with rice. once in a while I make it with steamed rice and a dal.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have alu posto using 15 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Alu posto:
- Prepare 5-6 boiled potatoes
- Get 3 tomatoes
- Get 3 green chillies
- Prepare 2 tea spoon postu
- Prepare 10-15 cashews or kaju
- Take Butter or oil
- Take 1 teaspoon jeera
- Prepare 1.5 teaspoon turmeric powder
- Make ready 1.5 teaspoon red chilli powder
- Make ready 1.5 teaspoon dhaniya powder
- Make ready As required Chopped green coriander leaves
- Make ready 2 lemon juice
- Make ready To taste Salt
- Get 1/2 teaspoon kalonji / nigella seeds
- Prepare 1 teaspoon hing / asafoetida
Alu posto is a classic Bengali dish. Sparing in its use of spices, this preparation relies on the flavours of potatoes, green chillies and nigella seeds for its taste. What stands out, however, is the nutty flavour of the roasted poppy paste, which also provides body and texture to the gravy. Aloo Posto is a popular Bengali recipe that uses very few ingredients and can be made in minutes.
Steps to make Alu posto:
- Peel potatoes
- Soak posto and kaju
- Make puree of tomatoes onion green chillies posto and kaju
- Cut potatoes into four parts
- Take kadai put oil or butter put jeera kalonji hing and put potatoes and fry bit
- Add turmeric powder, dhaniya powder, red chilli powder and mix well
- Add puree and mix well
- Mix well add little water mix well and cover for 2-3 minutes
- Alu posto ready to serve with puri, rice paratha. Garnish with chopped green coriander leaves
Made with cubed potatoes, poppy seeds paste and basic Indian spices, this delicious main dish recipe is best served with steamed rice. The deadly combo of Aloo Posto and Kalai Er Daal is life savor to many of us. Just for the sake of the readers, Aloo Posto is a Potato curry prepared with a thick paste of Poppy Seed or Khuskhus. By birth, I am Ghoti (a person having root in West Bengal) and alike every Ghoti family mine is also too much close to Posto! Aloo posto is the quintessential Bengali recipe and today I bring our home style aloo posto from my mum's authentic Bengali kitchen!
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