Chingri Posto / Prawns with poppy seed
Chingri Posto / Prawns with poppy seed

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Bengali chingri posto recipe is a side dish made with prawns cooked in a poppy seed paste. The main flavour of this dish comes from posto (or Poppy seeds). The chingri or prawns have to deveined and marinated with turmeric and salt for about half an hour.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook chingri posto / prawns with poppy seed using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chingri Posto / Prawns with poppy seed:
  1. Prepare 8-10 medium sized prawns washed and deveined
  2. Make ready 6 tbsp Posto or Poppy seed
  3. Prepare 2-3 green chillies ,slit
  4. Make ready Pinch red chilli powder
  5. Get 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
  6. Get 1/4 tsp kalonji
  7. Make ready 5-6 Tbsp mustard oil
  8. Prepare 1 cup water
  9. Take 1 medium sized onion chopped fine
  10. Prepare as per taste Salt

Chingri posto is a Bengali delicacy which is a perfect fusion of vegetarian and non-vegetarian flavors and is every prawn-lover's dream! Posto is an exquisite Bengali preparation primarily with vegetables, mainly potato, but today I am having my take on the perfect fusion dish called chingri. Poppy seed is an oilseed obtained from the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum). The tiny, kidney-shaped seeds have been harvested from dried seed pods by various civilizations for thousands of.

Steps to make Chingri Posto / Prawns with poppy seed:
  1. Wash and devein the prawns and smear with red chilli powder and salt. Set aside. Soak Posto for 30 mins
  2. Make a paste of Posto with minimal water. Set aside. Chop onions and green chillies
  3. In a wok heat oil and add kalonji and green chillies. When it splutters add chopped onions. When golden in colour. Set aside.
  4. In another wok heat oil and fry the prawns for 2-3 mins. Set aside
  5. In the same wok add Posto to the fried onions. Add little water if Posto is dry. Keep stirring until oil leaves surface
  6. Add turmeric powder to the Posto. Stir well
  7. Add a little more water to have a thick consistency, add salt and then add prawns
  8. Once you have the desired consistency set aside. Enjoy hot with steamed rice

Posto Chingri is an Indian prawn recipe that comes straight from the paddy fields of West Bengal. This shrimp recipe is cooked with authentic Bengali spices like Posto, that is poppy seeds and mustard. Posto Chingri is a Bengali recipe is almost as old as the land of Bengal itself. Posto(poppy seeds) are grown on large scale. Posto is poppy seed which is a popular ingredient in Bengali kitchen and has numerous uses, the most popular one being the aloo-posto or the potato curry with poppy seeds paste.

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