Name of bean in English

[Shoba]

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

Thanks in very much!
Shoba

[viraajan]

Dry beans!!

[PoonaiKutty]

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

[kugan98]

Your picture shows motchai kottai.
In english it is known as vall beans.
Thanks Kugan98

[Shoba]

Dry beans!!

Er... thanks

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...

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

Thanks, good reference point!

[kugan98]

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

[Idiappam]

It is the Mochai = Dolichos Beans..

Not Tattai -- which is a variety of Phaseolus beans (Kidney beans)

[Anoushka]

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...-8&sa=N&tab=wi

[Shoba]

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