Recipe: Delicious Postor bora

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Postor bora. Postor Bora or Poppy Seed Fritter is a common Bengali munchie (fritter) prepared with a paste of Poppy seed. We serve it as part of our regular meal along with rice and Daal. However, Postor Bora goes amazingly as an evening snack with a hot cup of tea.

Postor Bora is an exemplary traditional Bengali food which is known for its extraordinary flavour and texture.

It is hugely popular among Bongs in West Bengal.

It is the amalgamation of poppy seeds paste, grated coconut, onions, green chillies and rice flour which are shallow fried as fritters in mustard oil.

You can have Postor bora using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Postor bora

  1. Prepare 25 grms of poppy seed.

  2. Prepare 1/2 bunch of coriander leaves chopped.

  3. Prepare 2 of green chilles.

  4. It’s to taste of salt.

  5. It’s As needed of oil for frying.

  6. You need 1 of tomato.

Strain and grind to smooth paste.

The daily meal of a Bengali (people who belong to West Bengal, India) is elaborate.

Gone are the days when having rice with five or six bowls of different vegetarian and non-vegetarian curries, five kinds of fritters (called […] Postor bora served with gorom bhaat, kalai-er dal and Gondhoraj lebu make for a terrific combination.

For this Bengali posto recipe, take half a cup of white poppy seeds and grind to a smooth paste using very little water.

Postor bora step by step

  1. Take all the ingridients together.

  2. Make a paste of it.

  3. Now heat a pan add oil.

  4. Now make balls of the paste and deep fry it.

  5. Garnish it with tomato and coriander leaves.

  6. Serve it hot along with rice and dal or have as a snack.

You can either grind poppy seeds in a mixie jar or use the traditional Sheel Nora (a flat stone slab).

T oday I'll share the recipe of Posto'r Bora but with an addition of another ingredient, which is also very beloved to bengalis, Coconut.

So, it is Narkel Postor Bora or Coconut Poppy seed fritter.

The best combination to have these with hot rice and a lentil(dal) by the side.

But you can also enjoy only with warm rice, it is heaven on plate.