Aloo Posto - A Bengali Recipe of Potato & Poppy seeds

Ingredients:
4 medium potatoes
5-6 tbsp khus-khus / posto / poppy seeds
1 tbsp mustard oil (/ any normal cooking oil)
2 Green chillies
1 tomato cut in 4 slices
Salt to taste

How to Make It:
1. Cut Potatos into 1/2" cubes

2. Soak the poppy seeds in 1 cup warm water for 5 minutes. Drain the water and grind poppy seeds to a smooth paste. Add water by the tsp while grinding if it gets too thick.

3. Heat the oil in a pan and add the potatoes and cook for 5 mins, stirring frequently to avoid burning. Make sure that your flame is kept to medium.
4. Now add 2 cup of water, green chillies broken into halves, tomato, salt and cook covered for 10-12 mins until the potatoes are cooked through.
5. Add the poppy seed paste and stir in. The mixture should be thick and the poppy seeds paste should be sticking to the potato pieces by now.
6. Remove from fire and serve warm with rice.

//Try out Posto Bata (poppy seed paste) with sliced green chillies, 1 tbsp mustard oil & Salt with rice - Awesomeeeee //