Wednesday, February 19, 2014

hindi names

so I have been talking of using sorghum flour and chickpea flour to live on,
but many people don't know how to cook with them at all.
the trick to finding recipes for them is to know the hindi name

chickpea is chana dal, and it's flour is called besan
sorghum is jowar,
lentils are dal
atta flour is a fine ground wheat that leaves most of the outer parts of the grain

most of the indian food does not need fancy things like refrigeration, and it tastes good,
and you are more likely to be able to grow the things to make it,
it has an entirely new set of things to work with,
and you don't have to spice it up at all,
some of the flat breads they have work very well as a base for pizza or cookies,
but any way you go,
it helps to know the hindi names so you can search for them and find the good recipes


just look on the bag,
it says it is good for bhajias and pakoras, and kaddi


so I searched for bhajia recipe
and found
http://indianfood.about.com/od/vegetariansnacks/r/bhajias.htm
but I am not going to use gram four (can't have gluten)

so I searched for bhajia recipe besan
and found
http://www.ruchirecipes.com/RecipeDetails.aspx?Recipe_ID=832
some new thing I can eat and had no idea it was out there a bit ago,
and it is all from things that I can grow and needs no refrigeration 

so I think that knowing hindi names for things is super helpful

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