DESCRIPTION - Chickpea (Macrotyloma uniflorum) is a legume crop widely cultivated and consumed in India since ancient times. It is a protein-rich lentil with countless health benefits that will make you wonder if it's a medicine. It is also useful in your effort to control your weight. You can sprout it, turn it into a powder to accompany rice, or make a soup. It is known to generate heat, and traditional wisdom recommends pairing it with foods that have a cooling effect on the body.

PREPARATION AND USE -
Horse gram, tomato, tamarind, jeera, black peppercorns, garlic, mustard seeds, asafoetida, oil, curry leaves, coriander, salt.
Soak the horse gram overnight.
• Wash and cook with 2 cups of water. Strain and set aside.
• Soak 1/2 tamarind the size of a lemon in 1/2 cup of water.
• Coarsely grind the jeera, black pepper, and garlic pods.
• Take a frying pan and heat the oil.
• Crunchy mustard seeds.
• Add the ground spices and sauté for one minute.
• Add chopped tomatoes, curry leaves and sauté until soft.
• Add the reserved boiled horse gram water and tamarind extract.
• Add asafoetida and the required salt.
• When it starts to boil, add cilantro and turn off the heat.
• Serve warm with hot rice.

THE HEALTH BENEFITS -
1. Weight loss
Maintaining its astringent properties, horsetail is a good fit as a component to reduce that extra flabby fat.
2. Kollú | Horse Gram helps with kidney stones
Crystallizing waste in the body to form huge layers of debris is how kidney stones can be defined in simple language.
Acting as a strict antioxidant, horsetail is a perfect fit for your diet. Starting by breaking down stones into tiny particles, it then helps eliminate them and relieves pain.
3. for blood pressure
Horse gram forms a central ingredient of ancient Ayurveda, maintaining its dignity as it uproots disease from its center.
From treating external ailments to heart-related illnesses, they cure it all. Blood pressure is one of those conditions that requires careful management, primarily through dietary and physical control.
Horse gram powder mixed with warm water controls cholesterol and purifies the blood, ensuring proper bowel movement and, ultimately, controlling blood pressure.
4. Horse Gram as a skin purifier
Everything and anything related to your skin is reduced to zero, right down to your blood and gut. You rectify it and are blessed with flawless skin.
Adding horse grams to your diet at a regular interval may be once every 3 hours can be beneficial as it increases metabolism and cleanses the blood with its antioxidant property.
While the body absorbs the beneficial nutrients from the grams, the intestines receive a good fibrous push from them just to ensure proper settling of the stool.

NUTRITIONAL VALUES -

• Energy 321 kcal
• Protein 22 g
• Fat 0 g
• Carbohydrates 57 g
• Fiber 5g