Horse Gram (Kulthi)
馬を走らせる野生のエネルギー！強烈な大地の香りを放つ褐色のスーパービーンズ
Description
Flat brown beans with such high vitality/nutritional value they're used as horse feed. Extremely hard with an earthy wild flavor, prized as a soup to survive winter cold.
Classification: For Maniacs,Lentils,Nourishing Tonic,Diet
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How to use
Ingredients
- Horse Gram(Kulthi beans)
Instructions
- Since Horse Gram (Kulthi) is very hard, soak in water overnight (12+ hours).
- Boil longer in pressure cooker with turmeric/salt until crushable by fingers.
- Without discarding the boiling liquid, boil it down with tamarind, black pepper, cumin, garlic into the intensely spicy, sour South Indian medicinal soup 'Kulthi Rasam (Horse Gram Rasam)' to drink.
Learn more Substitutes, pairings, tips
Key spices
None
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Lentils or Azuki beans (wild flavor completely different but as bean sub)
Pairing
Kulthi Rasam, Lentil stir-fry (Sundal)
Trivia
[Hardcore] Called 'Kulthi'. Deemed the ultimate detox bean in Ayurveda 'warming the body, dissolving excess fat/stones'. Rarely served in regular restaurants, but worshipped as the ultimate medicinal food to survive harsh natural environments in South Indian homes and Himalayan mountains.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] When catching a cold or exhausted, gulp piping hot Horse Gram boiling liquid (Rasam) powerfully flavored with black pepper and garlic, sweating it out treating it as medicine!
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