Common Indian Cereals and Pulses

Cereals and Pulses

Bajra or Pearl millet

Black gram (Urad dal / biuli / kalai dal)
Chick Pea (Channa dal / chholar dal)
Flattened or beaten rice (chirey, chnire, chura, poha)

Green gram ( tarka dal / kala mung )


Lentil (masoor dal)

Maize ( vutta / makai )

Yellow Lentils (mug dal / moong dal / toor dal )

Parboiled rice (siddha chaal / ushna chawal)
Puffed rice (moori muri )
Raagi or Finger millet


Red Kidney bean (rajma)

Rice ( chawal / chaal / chaul )
Semolina (suji)
Sorghum ( Jowar /
jonnalu)

Tuar dal

Vermicelli (sewai, shemai, seviyan, shavige, sevalu, semiyalu, semiya)
Wheat (gehu, gam)
Yellow split Pea (motor
dal)
Dalia
Sabudana