Roasted gram or chickpeas (US: garbanzo beans), channa. Roasted Bengal gram. Darker and smaller than the chickpeas generally available in the West.
Finger millet. After rice and wheat, finger millet, with pearl millet, is the most important grain crop of India. It is used to make flour. Finger millet is often intercropped with legumes such as peanuts (Arachis hypogea), cowpeas (Vigna sinensis), and pigeon peas (Cajanus cajan), or other plants such as Niger seeds (Guizotia abyssinica).
Finger millet. After rice and wheat, finger millet, with pearl millet, is the most important grain crop of India. It is used to make flour. Finger millet is often intercropped with legumes such as peanuts (Arachis hypogea), cowpeas (Vigna sinensis), and pigeon peas (Cajanus cajan), or other plants such as Niger seeds (Guizotia abyssinica).
Indian plum or ber. A plum-like fruit which is a small, sweet, reddish-black berry which fruits during the monsoon. The term is also used to describe a type of pantua, a confection which is fried to resemble this berry. There are sweet versions (narkel kul) and sour versions (topa kul). The latter are used to make pickles and chutneys.
