Everything you need to know About Bikaneri Bhujia

Introduction

In many occasions, one may think some people are experts in hospitality through preparing deserts and other snacks only to realize, they had just acquired from a firm or imported from abroad. May be that could be the case because Bikaner the city where the name and production of Bikaneri Bhujia emanated has profiled the snack name for itself in massive production of these snacks.

Bikaneri Bhujia is a light yellow snack which has a savoury taste usually prepared from Besan (Gram flour) although it can be prepared from Moong, Moth beansed potato and flavoured with variety of spices but commonly is the black pepper. Moth beans (Vigna Aconitifolia) is a type of beans which is grinded into a fine flour. Once it is prepared, it can be stored in air-tight containers. 

 

How to prepare Bikaneri Bhujia

In order to prepare a standard Bhujia, one is required to have the following ingredients; a half cup of Moth beans flour, a half teaspoon freshly ground black paper, a quarter teaspoon cardamom powder, a quarter teaspoon hing(asafoetida), salt to taste and enough oil for deep frying.

Procedure

Once you have had all ingredients ready, in a clean deep bowl mix the flour, pepper, cardamom powder and salt with enough water to make a soft dough. Depending on your wish, shape the dough into a cylindrical rolls of your size

As the oil boils, fill the Sev Press Machine with the dough where you will press them out in thin strands into the boiling hot oil. Deep-fry your Bhujia in a medium flame for about 8-10 minutes until they turn into light brown.

 Drain any extra oil in the Bhujia either in an absorbent paper and allow them to cool before packaging. Once they have cooled, you may reduce their sizes by crushing them with your fingers.

Bikaneri Bhujia can be taken the same way as crisps together with cold drink.

  

Uses of Bikaneri Bhujia

  a) Bhujia is energy snack which yields approximate 590kcal/2470kj in every 100 grams and this much recommended to person engaging in hard work like athletes, growing kids to provide quick energy.

  b) Bhujia is a quick source of protein. In every 100 grams of Bhujia, 14 grams are of protein. Young kids who require protein rich food, this is amongst the recommended foods for them.

  c) Minerals are very fundamental in human health and so the Bhujia is full of Sodium. In every hundred grams of Bhujia, 614miligrams of sodium are guaranteed. Sodium is very useful in controlling fluid levels in the body as well as the blood volume and thus blood pressure is maintained at its normal level.

  d) It adds a delicious spicy into variety of junk foods such as Samosa, Kachoris among other foods.

 

Benefits of consuming Bikaneri Bhujia

     Trans Fat Free

With the demands from the Industrial Courts to publicise their nutritional contents on the packages, things have taken a different direction.  Misleading information has become a history now. Ingredients like fats for every 100 grams of every Bhujia should be zero in their products according to the new regulations. Initially, 0.9 grams Trans fats in 100 grams was the common case but those who gave such misleading information to their consumers had their production license withdrawn. 

      Standardized ingredients measurements

Junk foods for instance have a nutritional information of 14 grams protein in every 100 grams on upon packaging. National Institute of Nutrition through its experts has made a reasonable nutritional regulations which bar any producer to have more than what they have quoted for in any product. Without these nutritional information, many of the producers could take this as an opportunity to exploit the consumer, but hey they are not lucky!!

 Every consumer is entitled of genuine information of how many calories he or she consumes.

      Zero-Sugar

With the awakening of Nutrition and other consumer related agencies which are more concerned with the general public health, fat-salt-sugar-problem is what they are up to so as to ensure no producer will take any consumer for a ride. This is evident in Ireland, Mexico, United Arab Emirates, US and Canadian states who have banned junk foods because they are believed to contain excess of the aforementioned.

 In the recent past, Denmark and Hungary have had “fat tax” which is aimed on discouraging its production. Again also, if snacks such as butter, milk, cheese, pizza, meat, bacon, ice-cream or any other Namkeen processed food is found to contain more than 2.3 per cent fat is dumped and the producer charged in a court of law. 

Bikaneri Bhujia is now as delicious, sweet and safe as the so believed “Heaven” and nothing to fear when consuming. Why can’t you give it a try and be a living testimony!