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 | besan (बेसन)

Language: Hindi

Description: Gram or chickpea flour.



| Gram flour in a supermarket on Brick Lane |
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Pronounced: BEH-sahn
Latin: Cicer arietinum
Ethnicity: Indian Subcontinent
Most frequent country: India
Also known as: beshun, channo no atto, chenage pindi, daliche peeth, gram flour, kadalai hittu, kadalai maavu, keriati, patani, senaga pindi

See foods and dishes: chaney ki bhaji, besan bundi, channa, channa dhal, chola, kala channa, Kabuli channa, Kabuli chhola, phule chane, putnalu pappu |