Nuts
Indian White
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Indian white poppy seed is the subcontinental market form of cream khas khas—often slightly smaller looking lots used daily in restaurant and home pastes. Flavour is mild, fatty, and binding when ground. Rinse if dusty, soak, then stone-grind or blender-grind with water. Indian white is not a dessert-only seed; savoury Mughlai sauces depend on it. Avoid confusing with white sesame.
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Daily RestaurantFattyGravy ThickenerIndia Market WhiteIndian WhiteKhas KhasMildThickening
History
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Mughlai and regional cuisines embedded white poppy pastes.
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Indian white poppy seed was a bulk domestic commodity.
Export Indian white served diaspora groceries.
Chef recipes outside India began specifying Indian white poppy.