Chickpea Flour Gravy/Kadalai maavu chutney/Besan Chutney

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Bombay Chutney, chickpea flour, Chickpea Flour Gravy, Chutney, Ginger, Indian Chutney, Kadalai Maavu Chutney, Kadalai maavu recipe

This is one gravy which is done quite easily and fast. It goes well with many Indian breakfast like Idli, Dosa, rava dosa, rava idli, Poha. The creaminess of this dish is the most welcome factor. When you don’t have enough veggies this is an apt gravy. I got to know about this from my roommates mom. She used to call this as Bombay chutney. I love ginger and she had used so much of ginger in this dish which made me love it. Recently I prepared it and here is the recipe…

Ingredients:

Chickpea flour : 1/4 cup

Onion: 1/2 of one large

Green Chili : 2

Tomato : 1 small

Ginger : 1/2 inch piece grated

Oil : 1 teaspoon

Mustard seeds : 1/2 teaspoon

Urad dal : 1/2 teaspoon

Curry leaves : few

Cilantro : to garnish few

Salt : 1 teaspoon

Water : as required

Method :

Dry roast the chickpea flour in a pan for 3 to 4 mins, until a nice aroma comes up. Cool it down for few mins. Add water to this and make it a nice watery. You can salt to this and taste it, if needed more salt add and adjust. Chop onions, tomato, green chili.

Heat oil in pan, when it is hot add mustard seeds, urad dal. When it crackles add curry leaves. After a minute add onion, tomato, green chili, ginger. Let it turn translucent.

Now add the chickpea flour water in this. Keep stirring it would start getting thicker. Leave it to boil for 10 mins. Don’t forget to stir. Check if the chickpea flour doesn’t taste raw, if not you can stop. Else boil it for few more minutes. Garnish with Cilantro leaves.

 

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Ginger

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Benefits of Ginger, Ginger, Health Tips

I am a crazy lover of Ginger. I would say the most awesome food/spice in the world is ginger. When I was a child I used to hate them to the core. In food , if I found it, the day is gone, I would start yelling around :). It all changed few years ago, when I had severe cold, I used to get yellow fluid of mucus eeeekkkks, I used to hate myself those days. One of my friend suggested just have a piece of ginger in your mouth and slowly intake the juice. It would be helpful. It was a big deal for me, yet i tried it. Suddenly i found that awesome taste of ginger, pungent spicy, oh my god, I started loving it…..

Some of my karnataka friends who are awesome cooks, used to always have ginger in almost many things they prepare. Later even i started taking it everyday, include even in my tea. Almost in most of my cooking there would be ginger. I would love to post some of the benefits of Ginger here….

Gastrointestinal Relief — Gastric problem, take few pieces of ginger and cut slices out of it. put them in water and boil it well. drink the water, you can mix honey if you want. Believe me gastric problem vanishes.

Asthma/Cough/Cold : I had already spoken about this 🙂 Ginger is the best medicine for cold.

Ovarian Cancer : Ginger Induces Cell Death in Ovarian Cancer Cells

Immune Boosting system: I would 200% recommend that ginger boost immunity. After I started taking ginger in my tea everyday, I would say I haven’t got cold/cough touch wood 🙂 It fights infections fast.

Muscle pain caused by exercise : Yes , any muscle pain caused by exercise can be eliminated with the help of ginger

Painful Menstruation : If you have heavy periods pain, and intake ginger tablets , reduction of pain is just awesome.

At time yes we need to avoid ginger for few people, You should not take ginger if you suffer from a bleeding disorder or take blood-thinning medications (such as warfarin or aspirin). It also lowers blood sugar.

Always remember too much of anything is not good 🙂