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प्रश्न
Name some traditional Indian foods made of wheat, rice and Bengal gram (or their products) which involve use of microbes.
उत्तर
Using microbes in the fermentation process allows you to produce a variety of foods. Some major traditional recipes made with wheat, rice, and Bengal gramme or black gramme (vernacular urad) are as follows:
- Bread:- Saccharomyces cerevisiae ferments wheat into this product.
- Dosa, upma and idli:- They are fermented versions of rice and black gram (urad). The two are left to ferment for 3-12 hours with Leuconostoc and Streptococcus bacteria.
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