How To Make Best Poppy Seed Potatoes (Aloo Posto)Real Bengali Dish By Kalyan | India Food Network

A quick and practical way to make Aloo Posto - an all time favourite Bengali potato recipe. Watch out for those amazing tips!

Ingredients:
2 dry red chillies
2 bay leaves
1/2 tea spoon: kalo jeera/ kalonji/ onion seeds/ nigella seeds (different names for the little, black seeds)
1/2 a red onion, shallot finely chopped
6 potatoes: cubed and parboiled. Parboiling ensures that you don't have to use too much oil
50 g Posto/ poppy seeds, khus khus in Hindi, (Khous Khous in Lebanese): ground into a powder and then made into a thick paste by adding a bit of water

Spices:
1 tsp each of turmeric and cumin powder
1/2 tsp each of red chilly powder and sugar
1 tsp, or more, of salt
3 green chillies split into half
1 tbsp cooking oil. While any oil will do, the traditional Bengali oil of choice is mustard oil.

00:21- Ingredients for making Poppy Seed Potatoes
01:06- Method for making khus-khus paste
01:20- Method for making Poppy Seeds Potatoes

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