Naga Gram (Besan) Flour 500g

Onion pakoda for the whole street during a World Cup final, one batch after another.

• What: Besan, gram flour (kadalai maavu)
• Pack: 500 g
• Brand: Naga, flour millers since 1962
• Best for: Bajji, pakoda, mysorepak, laddu

Gram flour, also called kadalai maavu (Tamil) · kadala podi (Malayalam) · kadale hittu (Kannada) · senaga pindi (Telugu) · besan (Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali) · besan / chanyache peeth (Marathi) · chana no lot / besan (Gujarati).

What it is

Naga's founder, Kollur Sreenivasan, began as a wheat flour trader and opened his first flour mill in Chennai in 1962. The company is now based in Dindigul, Tamil Nadu. This is their besan: fine, pale-yellow flour ground from gram.

Mixed with water it makes the thick batter for bajji and the crumbly onion pakoda dough. Roasted in ghee it turns nutty for mysorepak and laddu. Choosing between? Plain besan when you want to season it yourself, a bajji bonda mix for the ready-spiced shortcut, and rice flour added in for extra crunch.

Tip: For crisp pakoda, add a spoon of rice flour and a spoon of hot oil to the besan before the onions. No extra water.

Goes well with: GRB Pure Ghee, LG Asafoetida (Hing) Cake, Anil Rice Flour

Bengal gram flour (besan)

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