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Besan or gram flour is a pulse flour made from chana dal or chickpea flour (split Bengal gram) or brown/kaala chana, a chickpea. It is a staple ingredient in the cuisines of the Indian subcontinent , including Indian , Bangladeshi , Burmese , Nepali , Pakistani , Sri Lankan and Caribbean cuisines.
Satui is prepared by dry-roasting grains or grams, most often barley or Bengal gram. In Odisha, Satui or Chatua is made by dry-roasting cashew, almond, millet, barley and chickpea and grinding to a fine flour. The traditional way of preparing sattu involves the use of an iron vessel in which the grains or grams are roasted in sand.
Split mung beans (mung dal) is by far the most popular in Bangladesh and West Bengal (moog dal, (মুগ ডাল)). It is used in parts of South India, such as in the Tamil dish ven pongal. Roasted and lightly salted or spiced mung bean is a popular snack in most parts of India.
Chickpeas and Bengal grams are used to make curries. [40] They are one of the most popular vegetarian foods in the Indian subcontinent [41] and in diaspora communities of many other countries, served with a variety of bread or steamed rice. Popular dishes in Indian cuisine are made with chickpea flour, such as mirchi bajji and mirapakaya bajji ...
Litti is a wholewheat flour dough ball stuffed with a spiced mixture of satui (roasted black chickpea flour). [1] Litti, along with chokha , is a complete meal that is popular in the Indian states of Bihar , Jharkhand and eastern Uttar Pradesh , and the Nepalese provinces of Madhesh and Lumbini (eastern parts). [ 2 ]
In north Indian states, it is also known as gajak or maroonda. In Bangladesh, West Bengal and other Bengali-speaking regions, it is known as gur badam.In Maharashtra it is called as Chikki. In the South Indian states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, it is called palli patti (పల్లీ పట్టీ). In Kerala it is called Kadala mittai.
Chakli is typically made from flours of rice, Bengal gram (brown chickpea) and black gram (urad daal). It has several variations, depending on the types and proportion of flours used. Murukku, is a South Indian snack typically made with Rice and black gram (urad daal) flour during Diwali. It is also very popular in South Africa, introduced by ...
As the seasons change so does the Bihari thali, every 3–4 months.The constants are rice, roti, achar, chatni, dals and milk products, with some variation.. For the frying and tempering (chhounkna / tadka) of certain vegetable dishes, Bihari cuisine makes use of vegetable oil or mustard oil and panch phoron — literally the "five spices": fennel seed (saunf), black mustard seed (sarson ...