Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, potol aloo posto (potato pointed gourd fry with poppy seeds). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Potol or Pointed Gourd is a very popular and a must have vegetable in any bong's pantry. My mom used to make this as a quick fix meal. This is Potol Posto or Pointed Gourd in Poppy Seed Paste.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have potol aloo posto (potato pointed gourd fry with poppy seeds) using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Potol Aloo Posto (Potato pointed gourd fry with poppy seeds):
- Prepare 500 gm potato cut into cylindrical shape
- Take 300 gm pointed gourd peeled and cut into two halves vertically
- Make ready 1 cup paste of poppy seeds
- Get 8 green chillies slitted
- Make ready Salt as required
- Prepare Mustard oil as required
- Take 1 teaspoon panch phoran
- Make ready 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
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. This time during durga pooja, I thought of sharing the recipe. Some years back, the recipe of aloo posto was shared.
Steps to make Potol Aloo Posto (Potato pointed gourd fry with poppy seeds):
- Heat some oil in a wok and add the panch phoran. Let it splutter.
- Add the potatoes, pointed gourd, slitted green chillies, salt and turmeric powder.
- Fry them in a high flame until light brown in colour.
- Add the poppy seeds paste, 1/2 cup of water and cover it with a lid.
- Uncover the wok when the water evaporates.
- Again fry it for a while by adding some mustard oil.
- Remove it from the flame and serve hot with steamed rice.
Aloo posto is a popular Bengali dish - potatoes cooked in poppy seed paste, served with pooris or plain boiled rice. This delicately flavored curry gets its spice kick from two other trademark Bengali ingredients - mustard oil and panch phoron. Poppy seeds are rich in minerals and contain fine oils. Aloo Posto is an interesting Bengali recipe made by using potato with poppy seeds. Explore here how to make Aloo Posto in an easy way.
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