East Indian
Posto Bora (Poppy Seed Fritters)
Posto Bora (Poppy Seed Fritters) is East Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the cooked vegetable. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup poppy seeds, soaked
- 2 tbsp gram flour (besan)
- 1/4 cup onion, finely chopped
- 1 green chili, chopped
- 1/4 tsp turmeric
- 1 cup mustard oil, for deep frying
- 1/2 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Soak the poppy seeds in warm water for 20 minutes, then grind into a thick, coarse paste.
- Mix the poppy seed paste with the gram flour, chopped onion, green chili, turmeric, and salt into a thick batter that holds its shape.
- Heat the mustard oil in a kadai until shimmering hot.
- Drop spoonfuls of the batter into the oil and fry in batches, turning once, until golden and crisp, about 4 minutes.
- Drain on paper towels and serve hot as a humble side with rice and dal.
Serve it with
A East Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Posto Bora (Poppy Seed Fritters), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The protein alongside
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What it is eaten with
A course labelled with another kitchen's name comes from a cuisine in the same family, which is where this plate usually borrows it from.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Posto Bora (Poppy Seed Fritters) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- Low
- Food groups it covers
- Nuts and seeds, Pulses, and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Posto Bora (Poppy Seed Fritters) takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
Watch someone make it
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on poppy seed.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from East India.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
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