This curry has a thingravy, but if you want a thick gravy, then increase the poppyseedsor cashews or if you like, the mustard seedsor you can also add a little coconut when making the paste
First up was a simple mixed vegetables flavored with just panch phoron, then it was okra in a spicy yogurt sauce and today it is cauliflower cooked in creamy poppy seed gravy
Due to a moderate content of morphine and codeine (leftovers from the latex used to make opium and heroin), poppyseeds have a distinct ability to induce a sound sleep (no doubt explaining Shurjo’s lost and lamented afternoon naps)
In between, add turmeric powder, red chilli powder, coriander powder and poppy seed paste. The experimenter mindin me, thought to combine two of them in one dish and voila, a great tasting chicken curry has born
This is her recipe and though she would have never approved my using the grindingmachine to grind the poppyseeds and coconut, I know that she must be watching me from somewhere above and smiling that I am making the Posto Narkel Borausing her recipe
All knows that bengali people have a love affair with Postoorpoppyseedsor khus Khus. If you ask anyone, bengali recipe of Postoorpoppy seed, everybody will say ,"Aloo posto/potatoesinpoppy seed paste", as only this one is the most well known bengali posto recipe
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