Would plain flour make an OK substitute when desperate?
PS I love your TV show & so was delighted to find your book on the shelf at Sydney City Library – it’s fantastic. Even my non-vegetarian boyfriend can’t keep his nose out of it! I’ve now stumbled across your website & have enjoyed reading your discovery of Indian food, & early haunts in Sydney. Keep up the great work. Lizzie M, Enmore, Sydney, Australia Hi Lizzie! Thanks for your letter regarding chickpea flour – an ingredient with many names! Indian-style chick pea flour is actually made from chana dal, a smaller darker skinned cousin (not being politically correct here!) of the chickpea, and not from actual chickpeas. So sometimes there is some confusion due to the alternative names for chickpea flour. It is also called chana flour, chana dal flour, gram flour, dal flour, gram dal flour, pea flour and besan flour. You may find it at that same store under any of those names. Otherwise any Indian store in Sydney will definitely have it, under any of the above name, but most commonly as
