Shaak-Posto Chingri

Shaak-posto with chingri (prawns), I don’t know if such a dish really exists, however I made it up today morning 🙂 and it tasted good so I thought of keeping the recipe safe. However, I only have the picture of the finished dish; so only the quick recap for this recipe.

Ingredients :

(Will make for 3 people)

  1. 50 gms poppy seeds (posto)
  2. 250 gms medium size chingri (prawns) clean and deveined
  3. 10-12 leaves of Palak (palong shaak) (roughly cut into small pieces)
  4. 1 dried red chilli (optional)
  5. 1 green chilli (optional)
  6. a pinch full of panch-foron (or just some whole cumin seeds)
  7. 2 cloves of garlic
  8. 1 medium size onion (cut into small pieces)
  9. Mustard oil
  10. Salt to taste for posto, 1 tbs for marinating the prawn
  11. Pinch full of sugar
  12. 1.5 tsp of turmeric for the posto, 1 tbs for marinating the prawn
  13. 2 tsp of red chilli powder posto, 1 tbs for marinating the prawn
  14. a pinch full of black pepper powder

Recipe Steps:

  1. Marinate the prawn with the salt, turmeric and red chilli powder for half an hour.
  2. In the grinder container add the poppy seeds (posto), half of the turmeric, red chilli powder, the garlic cloves, green chilli and 2 tbs of water. Then grind the mixture till you get a smooth paste. Keep it aside
  3. In a frying pan add mustered oil. Heat the oil till it starts to fume. Add the marinated prawns and fry half minute each side. Be careful, prawns tend to overcook fast. Take them off the heat. Keep them aside.
  4. You can reuse the oil if you want to, or get some clean oil as well. Whatever you do, in the oil now put the panch-foron (or whole cumin seeds) and the whole red chilli. lightly fry.
  5. Then add the Onion (cut into small pieces) in the oil, add the sugar and fry till they are translucent.
  6. Now add the posto paste in the pan with little more water. Add salt to taste and black pepper powder.
  7. Cover the the pan, lower the heat and cook till the posto is done.
  8. Now add the shaak cut into small pieces in the pan. Cook till it is done. See that most of the water has been evaporated. It is better to be a little dry then a gravy dish.
  9. Now it is time to add the prawns. Mix and take the pan out of heat.
  10. Done, serve with rice and daal 😀

 

 

Shaak Posto with Chingri (Prawns)
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One thought on “Shaak Posto with Chingri (Prawns)

  • June 6, 2020 at 10:52 pm
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    As a Bengali posto mutton and ilish/chingri is my favourite. Can not choose between them..

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