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Besan

Also called chickpea flour and gram flour

Besan is a flour made from chickpeas. Cooks use it for baking, garnishing, seasoning, and thickening.

  • Plant-based
  • Gluten-free
  • No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Made from
Chickpea
Cooked most in
Asia, Europe
Top country
India
Besan, whole

Photo: AlexanderVanLoon · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use besan

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Bake
  • Garnish
  • Season
  • Thicken

Nutrition

What 100 g of besan holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 26%Fat 8%Carbohydrate 67%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of besan
Energy387 kcal · 1,619 kJ
Protein22 g
Fat6.7 g
of which saturated0.69 g
Carbohydrate58 g
of which sugars11 g
Fibre11 g
Sodium64 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of besan: minerals and vitamins
Potassium846 mg
Calcium45 mg
Iron4.9 mg
Magnesium166 mg
Zinc2.8 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)2 µg
Folate437 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 174288), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

On the table

Dishes made with besan

2 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Cheela

    India

  • Panisse

    Italy

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include besan.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: besan in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Family

Related forms

Made from
chickpea

Around the world

What besan is called

Names in 39 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Harina de garbanzo

  • French

    farine de pois chiche

  • Italian

    farina di ceci

  • German

    Kichererbsenmehl

  • Dutch

    besan · gram-meel · kikkererwtenmeel

  • Greek

    ρεβυθάλευρο

  • Polish

    Besan

  • Arabic

    بيسن · طحين الحمص · الطحين غرام

  • Persian

    آرد نخودچی

  • Hebrew

    קמח חומוס

  • Hindi

    बेसन

  • Bangla

    বেসন

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  • Basque

    Txitxirio-irin

  • Bhojpuri

    बेसन

  • Burmese

    ပဲမှုန့်

  • Catalan

    farina de cigró · besan · farina de cigrons

  • Chinese

    鷹嘴豆粉

  • Czech

    Cizrnová mouka

  • Danish

    kikærtemel

  • Esperanto

    kikerfaruno

  • Finnish

    kikhernejauho

  • Gujarati

    ચણાનો લોટ · બેસન

  • Japanese

    ベサン

  • Javanese

    Glepung gram

  • Kannada

    ಕಡಲೆ ಹಿಟ್ಟು

  • Korean

    병아리콩가루 · 베산

  • Maithili

    बेसन

  • Malayalam

    കടലമാവ്

  • Marathi

    बेसन

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    kikertmel

  • Punjabi

    ਬੇਸਨ

  • Sanskrit

    चणकपिष्टम्

  • Slovak

    mleté cicerové bôby

  • Slovenian

    čičerikina moka

  • Swedish

    kikärtsmjöl

  • Tamil

    கடலை மாவு

  • Telugu

    ఉఇగ్య్ర్త్యె

  • Urdu

    بیسن یا چنے کا آٹا

  • Western Panjabi

    بیسݨ

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q651829

Photos

Photo: AlexanderVanLoon · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons