Preparation time: 10 mins Cooking time: 15 mins Very special sorse potol - traditional Bengali dish
Ingredients
8 pointed gourds/parval/potol
1.5 tablespoon mustard seeds
½ tablespoon posto/khus khus/poppy seeds
1.5 teaspoon red chilli powder
Salt as needed
Mustard oil as needed (for frying)
Instructions
Cut tip of the pointed gourds, peel, now cut lengthwise from each end/tip making 90 degree difference between two cuts, do not make it 4 separate pieces
Remove seeds from pointed gourds as much as possible
Now heat oil in a kadai (cooking pot), add mustard paste, poppy seeds paste, salt and red chilli powder and fry for next 1-2 minutes
Now take it in a bowl and rest it till temperature dropped
Then fill the pointed gourd with that fried paste and then deep fry those pointed gourds till it is cooked perfectly
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