Posto Chicken - Bengali posto recipe

Posted on February 7, 2008
Filed Under Chicken, Easy Meals, Non Vegeterian |

Posto is also called khus-khus or poppy seed . You all would know poppy seed but Bengali’s generally call it ‘posto’. Posto recipes are a integral part of a Bengali lunch. Aloo posto, jhinge posto, kopi posto are all so mouth watering dishes. I will post these posto recipes as well going forward. One day at a friend’s home we had Dim Posto (Egg posto, i.e. egg prepared in poppy seed paste). I liked it so much that I used the concept to cook chicken posto , which we may call posto chicken also.

Below I list the method I followed. Later I did a search on the net to see similar preparation of chicken with posto.

Serves : 2
Preparation Time : 10 min
Cooking Time : 20 min

Cookware used :

Gas oven
Kadai or utensil with lid
Mixer

Ingredients :

Chicken (500 gms)
Onion (2 big sized)
Mustard oil (6 tablespoon)
Green Chilli (4 pieces)
Posto , also known as khus-khus or poppy seed - (6 tablespoon pasted)
Salt

Easy method to cook chicken in poppy seed paste :

Cut the onion in long, fine slices
Make a paste of poppy seed in the mixer. Use a bit of water as appropriate (Refer the quick tips section on how to make poppy seed paste)
Remove the stem and slit the chillies
Heat 4 tablespoon oil in a kadai or utensil with lid
Add the onion and fry till it turns brownish
Add chicken, green chillies and salt
Cook the chicken on low heat - stir the chicken occassionally and keep it covered
Cook till the chicken becomes soft
Now add the poppy seed paste
Sprinkle a bit of water (only if water has not come out of chicken while cooking). Remember this is a gravy preparation so do not pour too much water.
Add 2 table spoon mustard oil and stir well to mix
Serve hot with rice