Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: Scribbler on August 09, 2013, 17:26
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Anyone use this at all? I rather fancy trying making socca flatbread or maybe pancakes.
Only problem is I can't get it locally. Could buy online, but I'm guessing postage would be a bit steep.
I'm in Henley, so Reading is local. Health food shops? Indian supermarkets?
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The bag in my cupboard has been there a while ... can't remember why I bought it originally and it doesn't get used very often.
You should be able to get it from any of the big 4, certainly Trashco do it.
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I use it to make onion bhajis - but try to get a small bag because it seems to have a short shelf life, well Tescos stock of it does :(
It may be fresher from an Indian corner shop :)
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Chickpea flour is found in Indian shops and some health food shops. It is also available from waitrose supermarkets and ocardo, they sell the dove farm brand. :)
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It's called chickpea flour, or Besan or garbanzo depending on where you're shopping. You can get it everywhere. You're not looking properly :D
Pakoras are the thing to make with it at the mo as there are so many veg available.
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Should probably add this to the "ways to dispose of your courgette glut" thread.
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Morrisons do it too. Made some onion bhaji's with mine but loads left. Its getting a bit old though so I need to use it up. Courgettes sound pretty good and I could get rid of a few of those too.
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Scribbler, all the large Tesco shops in Reading stock gram flour, as do all indian supermarkets.
Just be warned -- you need to add water slowly and beat like mad to make sure there are no dry lumps, or sieve it
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So what you're all saying is I can't get out of my front door without a bag of gram flour falling on me....
Despite my best efforts to find some..................
Duh................
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Should probably add this to the "ways to dispose of your courgette glut" thread.
Nom nom and gluten free too :)
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So what you're all saying is I can't get out of my front door without a bag of gram flour falling on me....
Despite my best efforts to find some..................
Duh................
If the Tesco in Henley does't have it - not sure they have a World Food aisle :unsure: - the one by Reading bridge certainly does. It may be labelled Besan, but its the same thing :)
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You can get it everywhere. You're not looking properly :D
Sorry, not quite. ;) I'm going to buy some online when I remember to get round to it as there are a few recipes, bhajis being high on the list, that I want to try.
:)
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Should probably add this to the "ways to dispose of your courgette glut" thread.
I just realised that Lardman has posted a link to a 'cookery demos' to one of my favourite on-line sites - Manjula's Kitchen. Great indian food ideas there!!!! :D :D :D :D
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I just realised that Lardman has posted a link to a 'cookery demos' to one of my favourite on-line sites - Manjula's Kitchen. Great indian food ideas there!!!! :D :D :D :D
Im a big fan - but I do wish everything wasn't fried :(
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There is a fair bit of fried stuff isn't there ::)
Everything I have tried so far has been very good though :D
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I'll try Tesco's again later. This is what I'm after doing:
http://www.domesticsluttery.com/2012/11/sluttishly-vegetarian-chickpea-flour.html
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New Shoot:
Do you mean the 24-hour Tesco down Napier Road? Over the bridge and turn left at the roundabout?
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New Shoot:
Do you mean the 24-hour Tesco down Napier Road? Over the bridge and turn left at the roundabout?
I'll answer for her as she is at work -- yes that is the one. The one on Portman Road also stocks gram flour :)
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Many thanks!!
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I got Gram today from Twonko :) Allotment pakora for tea tomorrow :tongue2:
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I watched the vegetable pakora video, visited the site and got the recipe this afternoon at work (don't tell anyone). I then came home and made some - fantastic.
BP
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They are a regular in our house ;)
Great to see that the word is spreading :lol:
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I got my recipe from a Bengali lady. Easy to make and so tasty :tongue2:
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They are a regular in our house ;)
Great to see that the word is spreading :lol:
The ones you brought when you visited the other week went down a treat with OH. I saved them and shared them with him when he got back from work. He was quite anxious that I have a go at making them ;) :lol:
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Home made pakora is a main course at our house dished up with a crisp salad. Make the veg the star turn! That's my mantra :tongue2:
Also delicious with homemade chips and mayo at the same time but I'm trying not to go there. Sigh :nowink:
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They are a regular in our house ;)
Great to see that the word is spreading :lol:
The ones you brought when you visited the other week went down a treat with OH. I saved them and shared them with him when he got back from work. He was quite anxious that I have a go at making them ;) :lol:
Have a look at the video Lardman has given the link to above, and you won't go far wrong.
You will also be hooked on Manjula's veggie food --You Have Been Warned :lol:
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I was watching Rick yesterday morning, in South India, and he was recommending the cabbage and potatoes fried with chopped coconut. I like the sound of that :tongue2:
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I was watching Rick yesterday morning, in South India, and he was recommending the cabbage and potatoes fried with chopped coconut. I like the sound of that :tongue2:
It is exceptionally nice tbh :lol:
We have lamb with spinach tonight, with dry fried onion garnish, plain roti and yoghourt with mint, plus lime pickle :D :D You can tell I am not at work, can't you? ;) The lamb was in the reduced section so good value too :nowink:
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I found this in the eastern food aisle of Traschos today - mine is split yellow pea flour.
Have used it for tonights lottie pakoras ;)
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You will also be hooked on Manjula's veggie food --You Have Been Warned :lol:
Too late :ohmy: I got hooked quite a while ago and suscribe to her YouTube channel :lol:
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Sounds lush :ohmy: Which reminds me. I ordered lamb neck on my last Twonko order but I didn't get any. I bet I forgot to push the "add to basket" button. That's what you get when you do the order around midnight :nowink:
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Lamb neck makes excellent curries too :(
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I use lamb neck for a lot of things - especially lamb klefitico.
I don't like fatty meat but the thin fat in neck just dissolves on cooking with a nice flavour :)
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It does. I make the NS mulled lamb recipe with it. Mmmmm kleftiko. I could eat some now :D
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Oooh stop it you
two3!
I'm drooling now - and there's no lamb left in the freezer :ohmy:
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and even if there was it would take ages to thaw, MoS :ohmy:
So it would be tomorrow before you could indulge. I ma sure you have something nice for dinner today, even if not lamb.
At least I hope so
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Courgette pakoras went down a treat tonight. I got a couple, but OH happily wolfed the rest :D