BROAD BEANS OR FAVA BEANS OR WINDSOR BEANS OR BOGLA DAAL AND KASHMIRIS..

                                             

                                           

BOGLA DAAL.... BROAD BEANS OR FAVA BEANS   or WINDSOR BEANS AND KASHMIRIS..

"Ha'taa bi ! Amiss di chana bogla ras..Amiss iyee hyass hue ..."

" O lady! Give him soup of dry broad beans mixed with gram.He will have some energy"

This is what was recommended to my mother by Prem Nath Koul" wafa"  RMP .Along with Shamboo Nath Sathu RMP , he did  roaring practice from his medical shop near Jogi Lanker Bridge. No gossip monger was allowed to sit in the shop . Pandits and Muslims of Rainawari  would visit this shop. I would always see sick persons being  brought  from interior localities of Dal  Lake( in roofless boats) to this shop.The doctors in this shop were assisted by a trusted compounder cum helper known as  Mohi ud Din . Mother had taken me to Prem Nath Wafa's shop after I had recovered from an attack of typhoid and was feeling extremely weak and emaciated. Those days only tea or some liquids were allowed to typhoid patients. I loved the Daal made from chana (gram)and Bogla(broad beans). It used to have a different taste.Something like mutton soup. Mother would add a spoon of Jammu Khaalis Ghee that was the preferred and branded /Agmark Desi Ghee in the market those days.

Bogla Daal was sold in plenty by Galdhaars (traders in pulses and grains) in the  Kashmir valley . Doctors recommended its soup during sickness. It was the first choice of doctors and Hakeems  to patients who had fever, typhoid, jaundice and other ailments.Grown in many areas of the Kashmir valley especially Karewas( plateaus) ,it was a cheap  source of protein for the poor.A recent study on broad Beans published in" European Journal Of Clinical Nutrition " informs this :-

" Broad beans are an excellent vegetable source of protein and fibre. This may be a winning combination for weight loss.  Broad beans are also rich in both folate and B vitamins, which we need for nerve and blood cell development, cognitive function and energy."

As I grew, I found people developing a distaste for Bogla Daal and strangely linking it with poverty and backwardness.And I have found that post exile, Kashmiri Pandits have started consuming it once more .Plenty of Bogla Daal is sold in Jammu now .You can buy it from Prasad Koul And sons Gole pulli TalabTillo, Kangan Spices Udhaywala, Ram Sham Provision Store Rehari,  Jain Masala Store located at  Pacci Dacci and Pucca Graat ,Talab Tillo . I saw Fava beans at many stores in the US. The Kalustyan's  store on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan sold one  lb packet of dry Fava beans @ 8 US Dollars .You get them in tins as well ; something ready to cook .

(Avtar Mota)

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