Here is a super healthy yogic food Horse gram recipes and horse gram benefits. Horse gram chutney or kollu chutney is a healthy side dish .
Horse gram chutney is a nutritious and tasty chutney recipe. This healthy chutney is ideal for idli, dosa & roti and even good as a side dish for hot rice. Horse gram is a miracle, lesser known pulse and is a great vegetarian source of protein on the planet. It is used as a staple food for horse and cattle and so the name “Horse Gram”.
Basically, in ancient times, this amazing lentil occasionally used for human consumption and also in Ayurvedic cuisine. According to Ayurveda Horse gram is a super food with medicinal properties & widely used in treating many ailments like kidney stones, cough, cold, asthma, piles, PCOD/PCOS in women.
Usually this wonderful legume is consumed as a whole seed, as sprouts or as a whole meal in India. Most importantly, horse gram is not popular as black gram, green gram etc. But it is one of the most nutritious legume for a healthy diet.
Another name for Horse gram
Macrotyloma uniflorum is the scientific name of horse gram. In sanskrit you can call Horse gram as “Kulattha” or ” Kulatthika”. ‘Huruli’ in Kannada, ‘Kullu’ in Tamil, ‘Ulavalu’ in Telagu & ‘kulthi’ in Hindi.
Further, Horse gram is a high nutritional lentil. It is a great source of Iron, Calcium & Protein. Moreover it also supplies some amount of B vitamins, That helpful for normal metabolic functioning of cells. Also it is low in fat and lipid & hence useful for a healthy heart.
In addition to this, horse gram chutney is a super delicious, lip smacking chutney can be made in 5 mins. It makes a healthy & tasty chutney for breakfast, as well as even goes well with hot rice. Moreover, here finely chopped onion enhances taste of the chutney.
Even more, Horse gram is widely consume as a sprouts or poriyal with boiled seeds, in the form of rasam etc. You could also make healthy drink of horse gram by using horse gram powder. In other words, you can make horse gram salads with your choice of veggies to make it more nutritional.
Horse Gram(Kulattha or Kulatthika) Benefits
- In Ayurveda Horse Gram is a super food in its own way. It is popularly call as Kulattha and widely used in ayurvedic medicines.
- Basically horse gram is an ayurvedic herb used in treating kidney stones, cough, asthma, piles etc
- It reduces kapha and vata dosha, but increases pitta dosha
- Horse gram helps in weight loss. It reduces medha dhatu(body fat) & kapha dosha which are the root causes for obesity.
- In Ayurveda horse gram is strongly recommended for women with PCOS or PCOD, menstrual problems
- Regular consumption of this pulse helps to reduce blood glucose level & highly beneficial for diabetes
- Ayurveda acharyas recommend horse gram soup in common cold, bronchitis, asthma and fever
- Kulattha has anti- aging properties & keeps your body young & vibrant
- Horse gram helps in digestion and eases constipation
- Traditionally it is used in the treatment of jaundice, water retention, Rheumatism, heart diseases, conjunctivitis and intestinal worms
- Also helpful in urinary discharge, Leucorrhea
- It treat Ulcers and skin rashes
Horse gram benefits in Ayurveda
As per Ayurveda, horse gram has astringent & diuretic properties. Soup made with horse gram helps in common cold, cough and extracting phlegm, there by it is beneficial in controlling fever. Eating more horse gram on a regular basis help in the management of obesity and diabetes. Generally horse gram has the ability to generate heat in your body and keeps you warm during cold winter days.
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Here is a nutritional super food Horse Gram Chutney with step by step photos and a detailed video.
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Ingredients
- 2 tbsp horse gram
- ½ cup freshly grated coconut
- 2 red chilli
- ½ tsp tamarind
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp jaggery
- 2 tbsp onion finely chopped
For tempering:
- 1 tbsp coconut oil organic
- ½ tsp mustard
- ½ tsp cumin
- ½ tsp hing(asafoetida)
- 4 to 5 curry leaves
Instructions
- Firstly, heat a pan on moderate flame and add horse gram
- Dry roast horse gram for a minute and turn off heat
- Allow to cool this roasted horse gram and then transfer to a blender jar
- Next add freshly grated coconut, red chilli as per spice
- Also add tamarind, salt and jaggery
- Additionally, add little water and make a fine paste
- Transfer the blended chutney to a bowl and keep aside
- Meanwhile, prepare tempering for chutney. For that heat a tempering pan on medium flame and add coconut oil
- once the oil gets heated up, add mustard, cumin, hing and curry leaves
- Saute well until splutters and turn off heat
- Further add finely chopped onion over the chutney and prepared tempering
- Give a good mix
- Now nutritious super food Horse Gram Chutney is ready to serve!
- Enjoy this healthy and lip smacking chutney with dosa, idli, roti & even with hot plain rice with a tsp of coconut oil or ghee
Instructions
- Firstly, heat a pan on moderate flame and add horse gram
- Dry roast horse gram for a minute and turn off heat
- Allow to cool this roasted horse gram and then transfer to a blender jar
- Next add freshly grated coconut, red chilli as per spice
- Also add tamarind, salt and jaggery
- Additionally, add little water and make a fine paste
- Transfer the blended chutney to a bowl and keep aside
- Meanwhile, prepare tempering for chutney. For that heat a tempering pan on medium flame and add coconut oil
- once the oil gets heated up, add mustard, cumin, hing and curry leaves
- Saute well until splutters and turn off heat
- Further add finely chopped onion over the chutney and prepared tempering
- Give a good mix
- Now nutritious super food Horse Gram Chutney is ready to serve!
- Enjoy this healthy and lip smacking chutney with dosa, idli, roti & even with hot plain rice with a tsp of coconut oil or ghee
