₹309 · UTTRAKSH ENTERPRISES, New Delhi. Cash on delivery across India. पहाड़ी काला भट्ट दाल — kala bhatt, the black soybean of the Kumaon and Garhwal…
पहाड़ी काला भट्ट दाल — kala bhatt, the black soybean of the Kumaon and Garhwal hills, sold whole in a 1 kg pack.
Black bhatt is the bean behind bhatt ki churkani, a thick, dark dal of Kumaon cooked in an iron kadhai, and bhatt ke dubke, made from soaked and ground beans. Roasted in a dry pan until it cracks, it is also eaten as a crunchy snack with salt and a cup of tea.
This pack is from Uttraksh Enterprises, a New Delhi shop stocking produce from Uttarakhand, which also lists a flat chipta bhatt. Keep the beans in an airtight container in a dry cupboard.
Yes. UTTRAKSH ENTERPRISES takes cash on delivery, so nothing is paid up front and nothing is charged until the parcel is in your hands.
Arrives by Mon, 16 Nov for most addresses. It is packed and sent by UTTRAKSH ENTERPRISES in New Delhi — not from a warehouse — so it leaves the hills the same week you order it.
UTTRAKSH ENTERPRISES, in New Delhi. Basket of Pahad does not hold stock or pack parcels — the shop does both. We take the payment and hold it until the order reaches you.
Food that has been opened cannot be returned. Anything that arrives damaged, leaking, short, or not what the page said is refunded in full — tell us within 48 hours.
Hill dals are earthier and stronger than the polished dals of a city store, and most keep a bite even when fully cooked. Gahat cooks into a dark, slightly bitter liquor, bhatt is nutty and smoky when roasted, and hill rajma is small, soft and sweet.
Most are cooked simply with salt and turmeric and finished with a tadka of ghee, jakhiya, garlic and dried red chilli, then eaten with rice. Gahat goes into ras and stuffed parathas, bhatt into chudkani and dubke, and rajma into the slow Sunday pot. Several are traditionally eaten in winter.
Store in an airtight steel or glass container in a dry cupboard. In the monsoon, if the dal feels damp, spread it in the sun for an hour before closing it up again. A few dried neem or bay leaves in the container is the hill way of keeping insects off.
Whole dried dals usually keep for many months, often a year, in a sealed container. The pack's label gives the shop's own best-before date.
For most hill dals, yes. Gahat, rajma and whole urad need a soak of eight hours or overnight, then a pressure cooker. Bhatt is roasted dry for snacking and is soaked or fried for chudkani depending on the recipe. Split dals such as masoor need only a short soak or none.
These dals are threshed and cleaned by hand, not machine-sorted. Spread a handful on a plate and pick through it before washing; it takes a minute.
Hill dals are unpolished and grown on dry terraces, so the grains are harder. A longer soak and a few more whistles fix it. Older stock also takes longer, which is another reason to buy what you will use in a season.
They come from small family plots, often a few fields mixed together, and are not graded by machine. Size makes no difference to taste.