Poshto Phoolkopi Recipe (Cauliflower & Potato In Poppy Seeds Gravy)
Cauliflower and Potatoes cooked in rich poppy seeds gravy and is best to serve with steamed rice.
This is traditional Bengali dish made of poppy seeds gravy. Cauliflower and potatoes are the main vegetable used in this dish. Frozen peas or fresh peas can be added too. Thick gravy like poppy seeds curry is delicious curry and is paired best with steamed rice. Highly recommend to use mustard oil for this curry to get the authentic taste.
Serve Poshto Phoolkopi along with Bengali Chapor Ghonto and Bengali Luchi for a weekend lunch with friends and family.
If you like this recipe, you can also try other Bengali recipes such as
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3-4 Servings
Ingredients
- 1 Cauliflower (gobi) , cut into florets
- 2 Potatoes (aloo)
- 5 tablespoon Poppy seeds
- 7 Green Chillies
- 1 teaspoon Kalonji (Onion Nigella Seeds)
- 2 Green Chillies , slit
- 2 tablespoon Mustard oil
- 1/4 teaspoon Turmeric powder (Haldi)
- Salt , to taste
- 1 teaspoon Sugar
- 1 tablespoon Coriander leaves (Dhania) , chopped for garnish
Directions for Poshto Phoolkopi Recipe (Cauliflower & Potato In Poppy Seeds Gravy)
To begin making the Poshto Phoolkopi recipe, firstly boil water in a saucepan. Add little salt and cook cauliflower florets and chopped potatoes for 3 minutes. Remove from water and keep aside.
Heat 1 tablespoon mustard oil in a heavy bottomed pan. Fry cauliflower florets and potatoes until it turns golden brown. Remove from pan and keep aside.
Rinse poppy seeds in water. Grind together poppy seeds, green chilies into smooth paste adding little water at a time.
Add the remaining oil to the pan. Add onion seeds and slit green chilies. Then add the fried cauliflower and potatoes.
Add salt to taste, turmeric powder, poppy seed paste. Mix well, cover and cook for about 5 minutes.
Add little water if required. Keep the curry thick. Add sugar, mix properly and turn off the flame. It is ready to serve.
Serve Poshto Phoolkopi along with Bengali Chapor Ghonto and Bengali Luchi for a weekend lunch with friends and family.
Jyothi Rajesh
Jyothi Rajesh is an engineer by profession. Food and any thing related to food is her passion. She loves to cook, style and photograph food. She spends half of my week teaching Robotics to children and the rest of my week she get lost in cooking and photography. She cook for two reasons. First, cooking is, in all honesty, a way to show that she cares about people. It gives her great pleasure to make something that someone enjoys! Second, "I love the quest … the quest for great ingredient combinations, for unexpected flavors, for those “wow” recipes."
