Dry Curry Of Poppy Seeds / Bengali Postor Kalia

Hi friends,
Today we are going to make a very delicious dish made with poppy seeds. It is a traditional dish of poppy seeds from West Bengal. It is an easy to make recipe and very tasty to eat. It is a dry dish and goes well with steamed rice.

Cooking time – 30 minutes.  Serve – 4
Ingredients –
1.Poppy seeds –200 grams.
2.Tomato – 1 (chopped)
3.Onion – 1 (chopped)
4.Garlic paste – 1/2 tsp.
5.Ginger paste – 1/4 tsp.
6.Cumin powder – 1/2 tsp.
7.Chilly powder – 1/4 tsp.
8.Salt – 1 tsp.
9.Sugar – 1/2 tsp.
10.Oil – 4 tsp.
11.Ghee – 1 tsp.
12.Cashew nuts – 8
13.Garam masala powder – 1/4 tsp.
14.Raisins – 2 tbsp.
15.Slit green chilly – 4
16.Bay leaf – 1
Method –
1.Grind dry poppy seeds to a powder. To this add 1 cup of water and grind to a paste, keep it aside. Grind onion and tomato to a paste. Transfer it to a bowl. To this add ginger,garlic,chilly,cumin and 1/2 cup of water and mix well. Keep the masala mix aside. Grind cashew nuts with 1/2 cup of milk/water and keep aside.
2.Heat oil in a frying pan, when hot reduce the heat and add the bay leaf and masala mix. Saute until the raw smell of the masala goes off. Add the poppy seeds paste, mix well. Saute on slow flame until oil separates (stirring constantly). Add cashew paste,salt,sugar and 1/2 cup of water and keep cooking till all the water evaporates. Add green chilly, ghee and garam masala powder, mix well. Remove pan from heat,cover and give 5 to 6 minutes standing time. Poppy seeds curry is ready to serve. Garnish with raisins. Serve the tasty dish with steamed rice.

Sharing is caring:

1 Comment

  1. “Remember that Bengali households still are known for their amazing food culture and this fact is known world-wide 🙂

    tanSEN was bengali my dear friend, so were a lot of other people! want to see the entire list as it stands today? so was subash chandra bose and sri aurobindo 🙂

    and i can name a million others and i am proud to say our greateness can be exerted beyond our national borders.
    we are the fifth largest speakers!

    these guys are not just making India proud but half the world knows about these guys dude 🙂
    c’mon
    we bengalis have won pretty much every award in the world stage
    you name it we have it and we are damn proud of what we have 🙂

    its the only country in the world which took rebellion because it couldn’t speak its mother tongue and it won! and won so hard that the UN had to adopt that day as the international language day, which celebrates languages from all over the world.

    did you know that the FAMOUS SEARS TOWER is architectured by another bengali?”

    KAMONASISH AAYUSH MAZUMDAR
    Product Manager
    Mobile Internet & Data at AIRCEL
    Bengaluru, Karnataka

Comments are closed.