Now take a wok or medium sized pan and add the pasteinto it first and then the marinated prawns. Prawn is a seafood that is found both in fresh as well as in sea water
Its a classic Bong cuisine accompanied with the attributes of great texture, a distinctive tangy taste of mustard and a flavour of kaalo jeere (nigella seeds) which make the dish most agreeable to the palate
Ever willing to experiment with food, the Bengalis found out that the tinypoppyseeds (postoin my native language) make a very good, rather neutral but appetizingingredient to includein their otherwise mundane diet
Heat little more oil in the same pan, add kalajeera/kalonji/black cuminseeds, when the seeds start to splutter, lower the flame, add the mustard-corianderpaste to the oil
Add some water to the dry paste to make it a wet paste and keep it aside. So, now let’s talk about the way I cooked the Shorshe posto Rui or Fish InMustard & Poppyseeds
In the same pan, temper with black cuminseeds and slitted green chill. All knows that bengali people have a love affair with Posto or poppyseeds or khus Khus
Now heat mustard oil(white oil is also good) in a thick bottomed kadhai. For a bengali " alooposto and garom bhat ar ektu daal"( potato cooked inpoppy seed paste along with daal and the steaming hot rice) is always heavenly delicious
Rohu/katla Fish InMustard and PoppySeedsPaste Gravy. Here I must talk about the importance of poppyseeds, mustard oil and mustardseedsin fish or any other vegetable preparations
The special about this dal is the use of fennel seed unlike other dal has the usual cumin seed or panch phoron(mixture of five different seeds) as tempering
• Grind the poppyseeds along with the red chilies to a finepaste after they are soaked. The most common statement a Bangal will make is that Ghotis can cook nothing other than daal and posto (lentil soup and poppyseeds)
PoppySeeds / Posto is considered to be one of the most essential spices in a Bengali Kitchen. Here I want to mention that for cookingsomething with the poppy seed pastemustard oil is the must for me
The triangular pea sized seeds are surrounded by soft white flesh inside. " I'm posting today a popular delicacy with drumstick, which is paired with potato and cooked in famous poppy seed paste, we call it, "Sajne Data O Aloo Posto" (drumstick & potato inpoppy seed paste), it's just a simple pleasure and comfort food
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