Get to know the English names of some of the most commonly used pulses.
Get to know the English names of some of the most commonly used pulses
New Delhi,UPDATED: May 3, 2019 14:09 IST
Pulses, beans and lentils are the center of the Indian food. The word pulse refers to dried seed. Daal are often known as lentils, but actually refers to a split version of a number of lentils, peas, chickpeas, kidney beans etc. If pulses are split into half, it is called as daal.
Indian pulses are available in three types:
- The whole pulse,
- the split pulse with their skin on
- the split pulse with their skin removed.
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Most of us often get confuse when it comes to referring the pulses names in English. The main reason behind this is because we always refer to these products in our regional names. Therefore to help you, here is the translation from Hindi to English of important and famous pulses of India.
Here is the English translation of some of the famous pulses of India.
- Mung daal - split and skinned green gram
- Hare mung daal - green gram
- Chawli daal - black eyed beans
- Masoor daal - split red lentils
- Sabat masoor - Indian Brown lentils
- Toor daal - yellow pigeon peas
- Rajma - kidney beans
- Hari matar - green peas
- Safed matar - White peas
- Chana daal - split black gram
- Urad daal - black gram beans
- Chori daal - adzuki beans
- Moth dal - Turkish gram
- Kala chana - brown chickpeas
- Safed chana - garbanzo beans
- Labhia - black eyes peas
- Poha - beaten rice
- Til - sesame
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Published By:
Harsh*ta Pathak
Published On:
May 3, 2019
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