Roasted Chana Sattu

Details

Sattu the way it is made in the Magadh belt of Bihar, where it is a daily food and not a health trend. Whole desi chana is sand-roasted in an iron kadhai until it cracks and smells nutty, cooled on the floor, then stone-ground with the skin still on so the fibre stays. Nothing else happens to it.

• Single ingredient: roasted desi chana, nothing else
• No barley, wheat or maize flour blended in to cut cost
• No salt, no sugar, no maltodextrin, no protein isolate
• No anti-caking agent and no artificial flavour
• Stone-ground cold, so it does not taste scorched
• Whisk into cold water with salt, lemon and roasted cumin, or knead into litti stuffing