Farmers used the whole seed as dal, which provided additional protein in their diet.
Dishes from chicken, beef, fish or mutton, dal (a spicy lentil soup) and vegetables commonly accompany rice and flat breads.
The dal cooked with mutton and vegetables served with brown rice, altogether is called dhansak.
Bafla and baati are always eaten with hot dal with pure ghee and chutney.
At home, "moong dal khechidi" and other khechidis are served with "pampad", pickle, curd, "aaloo bharta", or "baigan bharta", raita, dalma, and chutney.
Roasted coriander seeds, called "dhana dal", are eaten as a snack.
Most of a "dastarkhawan" dining table include chapatti, rice, dal, vegetable and meat curry.
The usual cuisine consists of roti or rotlas, curd, butter milk, dal, curry, vegetables, papad, kachumbar.
