Used across cuisines to add crunch to crusty baked items, creamy nuttiness to fillings and taste and texture to sauces and curries.
In Bengal, this seed paste is had raw, is added to vegetables and also often made into fried patties.
Posto or poppy seeds are one of the more expensive ingredients to be found in an Indian kitchen. In North India, this is used mostly as a thickener for Mughlai dishes like korma and is often optional. But, in Bengal, this is a kitchen staple.
This specialty sauce, made by blending high quality mustard seeds with a special mix of spices. It can be used as a marinade for sea food or as a dipping sauce for snacks, samosas and cutlets. Bengali Kasundi is one of the things a Bengali cannot live without. Some of the Bengali dishes are, simply, incomplete with this Bengali Kasundi. These dishes are fish curry, Cutlets, Hilsa Fish, Niramish Sukto and so on. A Bengali kitchen is nothing if it does not have Bengali Kasundi in store.