Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, alu posto. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Alu posto is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Alu posto is something that I have loved my entire life.
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 begin with this recipe, we have to 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:
- Make ready 5-6 boiled potatoes
- Make ready 3 tomatoes
- Prepare 3 green chillies
- Get 2 tea spoon postu
- Get 10-15 cashews or kaju
- Prepare Butter or oil
- Take 1 teaspoon jeera
- Take 1.5 teaspoon turmeric powder
- Get 1.5 teaspoon red chilli powder
- Prepare 1.5 teaspoon dhaniya powder
- Get As required Chopped green coriander leaves
- Get 2 lemon juice
- Get To taste Salt
- Get 1/2 teaspoon kalonji / nigella seeds
- Get 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. The deadly combo of Aloo Posto and Kalai Er Daal is life savor to many of us.
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
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 a popular Bengali recipe that uses very few ingredients and can be made in minutes. Made with cubed potatoes, poppy seeds paste and basic Indian spices, this delicious main dish recipe is best served with steamed rice. How to make aloo posto : Take off and cut the potatoes into one inch sized pieces.
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