Name of bean in English

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Topic started by Shoba on Wed Feb 18 2:06:34 2009. [Full View]

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It's either Thattai or Mochchai payar in Tamil...but any idea what the English name is..?

Thanks in very much!
Shoba

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From: viraajan on Wed Feb 18 2:09:26 2009. [Full View]

Dry beans!!
From: PoonaiKutty on Wed Feb 18 2:42:41 2009. [Full View]

chk here Shoba .. have got diff bean names
http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/facts/88-092.htm
From: kugan98 on Wed Feb 18 4:22:26 2009. [Full View]

Your picture shows motchai kottai.
In english it is known as vall beans.
Thanks Kugan98
From: Shoba on Thu Feb 19 0:07:30 2009. [Full View]

viraajan wrote:

Dry beans!!

Er... thanks

kugan98 wrote:

Your picture shows motchai kottai.
In english it is known as vall beans.

Kugan, thanks a lot. Val/Vall, what language is that? I mean is it really English...? I saw that in many sites and thought it was an Indian dialect or something. There was one site which said that mochchai was cattle feed and that it requires 2 changes of water while cooking to remove cyanide Well, it is true about the cattle feed and I do change the cooking water atleast 3 times when cooking beans...but the cyanide is a bit ..We use this bean or black eyed peas for Olan. Nobody has died so far... Somebody in the US wanted to know the English name...

Poonaikutty wrote:

chk here Shoba .. have got diff bean names
http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/facts/88-092.htm

Thanks, good reference point!
From: kugan98 on Fri Feb 27 3:16:01 2009. [Full View]

Dear Shoba sorry for the late reply.
Well I have not heard about cynide in motchai.
As far as I know, beans are low in fat and loaded with nutrients.
They are loaded with flatulence producing enzymes.
So one has to change the water about 3 to 4 times while soaking the beans. pouring off the water helps to get rid of the indigestible complex sugars that create gas in your intestine.

I cook this motchai about 3 to 4 times in a month.
As dried fish curry, puli curry, vendi and motchai puli mandi
motchai with potato prattle and also as sundal.

I make it a point to get fresh motchai from India to cook my ponggal kulambu.
Please visit Kugan's kitchen, where I will be posting these recipes soon.

Do not be scared so enjoy your motchai.
Kugan98
From: Idiappam on Fri May 15 23:26:28 2009. [Full View]

It is the Mochai = Dolichos Beans..

Not Tattai -- which is a variety of Phaseolus beans (Kidney beans)
From: Anoushka on Wed May 27 13:04:10 2009. [Full View]

I got frozen green mochai and it says Vaal lilva beans on the cover and doing an image search for vaal comes up with the right images http://images.google.ie/images?hl=en&q=vaal%20beans&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
From: Shoba on Wed Jun 17 3:06:45 2009. [Full View]

Thanks Kugan, Idiappam and Anoushka for your replies. Sorry for responding so late...

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