Aloo Posto Very Tasty Bengali Dish

Aloo Posto 

Ingredients:

• Green chillies 2
• Medium potatoes 5 - 6 
• Sugar  1/2 tsp 
• Pure ghee  1 tsp 
• Mustard oil 2 tblsp 
• Poppy seeds 4 tblsp   (khuskhus)
• salt to taste 
• Onion seeds 1/2 tsp   (kalonji)

Method Of Cooking:

• Cut the potatoes into one inch sized pieces.
• Keep them in water.
• Soak poppy seeds in one cup warm water for fifteen to twenty minutes.
• Remove and grind to a fine paste.
• Heat up mustard oil in a pot till it just reaches smoking point.
• Remove, cool and heat up the oil again on medium heat.
• Mix in kalonji and stir-fry briefly.
• Mix in potato pieces and stir fry on medium heat up for five minutes, stirring frequently.
• Mix in the poppy seeds paste, stir and mix in half cup of water, cover and stir fry on low heat up till the potatoes are almost done.
• Take off the lid, add salt, sugar and slit green chillies.
• Continue to stir fry for a minute more or till potatoes are completely cooked, stir in desi ghee

Serve hot.