I have been trying to get a list of recipes that use gram flour but seem either to get lots of recipes or no results at all when I use +, "xxx" etc.

1. Am I searching wrong?

2. Are there such recipes here?

3. Or any suggestions?

I've just put the single word 'gram' into the search and indeed it pulls up a lot of recipes, all that I checked used Gram flour in them !

Steve

Steve - are you sure?

When I try it only half use flour, rather than some other sort of "gram"

Beetroot Curry-Mysore Style Beetroot Palya Bhaji Chukandar Chukander Indian Main Sabji Vegetarian

Beetroot Greens or Other Green Leaves Pakoras or Bhajia, Fritters Chukandar Patte ke Pakore Bhajia Bhajis Chaat Indian Snack Vegetarian

Beetroot Raita (Yoghurt) Chukander ka Raita Indian Main Vegetarian

Besan (Gram Flour) Savoury Sticks - Ganthia Besan Sev or Ganthia Gujrati Indian Savoury Snack

Bhindi (Ladies Finger ) Pakora (Fritters) Bhindi Pakora (Kurkuri Bhindi), Bhajis Bhajia Buffett Chaat Chat Indian Kurkuri Okra Pakori Snack Vegetarian

Bhog Khichuri - Bengali Mung Dal Khitcheri

Pretty sure, all the ones I clicked on had Gram/Besan Flour listed in there. However it will pull other things up that mention it but don't use it etc. If you put "flour" it will list all recipes that use any type of flour or mention it somewhere in the text.

Steve

To get the most recipes with gram flour in them, put "gram +flour" (without the speech marks) into the search. You could try then adding "+besan" as well

Steve

'gram +flour' (without the apostrphes) is working for me!

See: http://www.mamtaskitchen.com/recipe_search_help.php

Winton

Hmm. The problem is that the search facility isn't quite a sophisticated as it needs to be for this kind of query.

The excellent suggestion of 'gram +flour' will indeed pull up recipes using gram flour - however, it's searching for the two words seperately so you will get, for example, chocolate chip cookies which lists 'flour' (in various forms) and 'gram' (as a unit of measure).

So it works to the extent that it will find every matching recipe, but it will also throw up some extra ones that don't actually use gram flour.

Sorry about that; in my defence that search engine was built about a hundred years ago when we had 200 recipes to work with :)

Thanks Ganders - I thought it was me!

Just done the search using google for this site only, which selects what I want, but obviously not in Mamta's format.

Many websites incorporate google search, but I've no idea if this is free or not!

Meanwhile, search for besan and you will get all the recipes using gram flour :-)!

MamtaJI indeed!

Why didn't I think of that? Lack of Hindi I presume.

So you will always have written "besan" and just mentioned "gram flour" for clarity.

But the word does not appear on my Natco pack - not in Roman script!

Any easy and good recipe focusing on the ingredient you would suggest?

Besan savoury pancakes use mainly, well Besan!

http://www.mamtaskitchen.com/recipe_display.php?id=10045

Winton