Grains are not the be all and end all for bread lovers. You can probably eat tastier and healthier chapatis made of vegetables like water chestnut or tapioca, and enjoy snacks made from flours of pulses. Here are five lesser known flours that pack quite a nutritious punch.
Water chestnut or Singhara
Singhara is in fact in season now. This aquatic vegetable, is rich in potassium, zinc, B vitamins and vitamin E, and often eaten by Indian women during their fasts. While you will find many recipes using water chestnut flour in Chinese cuisine, the flour makes for a great coating option for frying, apart from being used to make rotis. Some Indian homes also make Singhara Sheera during the fasting period. Popular food writer and food show host Tarla Dalal, in fact regards this sheeraas the finest.
Singhara is in fact in season now. This aquatic vegetable, is rich in potassium, zinc, B vitamins and vitamin E, and often eaten by Indian women during their fasts. While you will find many recipes using water chestnut flour in Chinese cuisine, the flour makes for a great coating option for frying, apart from being used to make rotis. Some Indian homes also make Singhara Sheera during the fasting period. Popular food writer and food show host Tarla Dalal, in fact regards this sheeraas the finest.
Arrowroot or sathi
This underground tuber isn’t regarded as a herb for nothing. It’s a storehouse of folates, vitamins, minerals and potassium. While the Gujarati community makes a porridge, those with gluten allergies substitute arrowroot flour for wheat. Arrowroot meal though is known to not have a distinct taste, due to which it makes for a good thickening agent. It can be used to bind or coat patties, cutlets, cookies and also to thicken sauces, soups and gravies.
This underground tuber isn’t regarded as a herb for nothing. It’s a storehouse of folates, vitamins, minerals and potassium. While the Gujarati community makes a porridge, those with gluten allergies substitute arrowroot flour for wheat. Arrowroot meal though is known to not have a distinct taste, due to which it makes for a good thickening agent. It can be used to bind or coat patties, cutlets, cookies and also to thicken sauces, soups and gravies.
Moth beans or matki beans
Matki beans are a popular component of the Maharashtrian cuisine, for instance the misal. While you could roll out chapatis and parathas rich in essential amino acids, try out a matki bean flour porridge.
Matki beans are a popular component of the Maharashtrian cuisine, for instance the misal. While you could roll out chapatis and parathas rich in essential amino acids, try out a matki bean flour porridge.
Black-eyed beans or chawli atta
Chawli atta can be used for preparing a variety of Indian snacks like dhoklas and khakra and pancakes. Or you could add a spoon or two of the bean flour to enrich soups and salans (stew) with fibre, protein, calcium, potassium, iron, and folate.
Chawli atta can be used for preparing a variety of Indian snacks like dhoklas and khakra and pancakes. Or you could add a spoon or two of the bean flour to enrich soups and salans (stew) with fibre, protein, calcium, potassium, iron, and folate.
Tapioca or sabudana
The regulars on the food blogging circuit often come across recipes that call for tapioca starch. But this is no foreign produce that will give you sleepless nights on how to find it or substitute it with local products. Tapioca starch is nothing but tapioca flour. And apart from making gluten-free rotis, it could also be used in baking.
The regulars on the food blogging circuit often come across recipes that call for tapioca starch. But this is no foreign produce that will give you sleepless nights on how to find it or substitute it with local products. Tapioca starch is nothing but tapioca flour. And apart from making gluten-free rotis, it could also be used in baking.
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