Posto Chicken- A typical Bengali receipe

Ingredients :

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

 Easy method to cook chicken in poppy seed paste

• Make a paste of  onion, ginger & garlic and tomatoes in a mixer

• 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)
• Heat 4 tablespoon oil in a kadai or utensil with lid
• Fry the onion paste in mustard oil and cook chicken into this masala with garam masala only .
• 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.