Add Gram Flour (Besan) to your chapatis is a good idea?

Adding just one extra spoon of pulse to your plate per rotis (Indian Flat Bread) or a handful of roasted Chickpea lentils will ensure you not only enjoy your regular meal but also reap the benefits of a high-protein chapati. High protein flour made by adding a variety of lentils or besan (gram flour) to the regular whole wheat flour. It has become quite popular among health-conscious people. But what if you do not like its taste?

High protein flour made by adding a variety of lentils or besan (gram flour) to the regular whole wheat flour has become quite a rage among fitness enthusiasts. The chapatis or rotis (Indian Flat Bread) made with this highly nutritious flour. It is loaded with many benefits and helps in controlling blood sugar levels and reducing weight.

While the benefits of eating this high protein flour are many. Some people may not be a fan of it’s taste. If they are used to having the regular rotis (Indian Flat Bread) made of whole wheat flour the experience of eating and enjoying the food may get affected. So, if you are one of those who just cannot wrap your head around the idea of having these high-protein rotis (Indian Flat Bread), you don’t need to worry, as a nutritionist has the perfect solution for you.

“Only eat rotis (Indian Flat Bread) made of atta mixed with Pulse/Gram flour. Really? Or you can make other changes without compromising your taste buds. Can be done in many ways,” says nutritionist Bhuvan Rastogi.

Can these high-protein Bread/Gram Flour help in losing weight?

“No one food cannot do that, but think logically. Even if you mix, you get max a spoon of Pulse extra and that’s it. Pulse and Flour have nearly the same amount of fiber, pulse just has about double protein. So this is just a trick to add at max a gram of protein per rotis (Indian Flat Bread). This trick works for people who have like a dozen rotis (Indian Flat Bread) per day, and everything else on the plate is less. It is not for nowadays urban people who have 2 to 4 rotis (Indian Flat Bread) at max per day,” says Rastogi.

Here’s how you can compensate for the missing protein

“If you are too worried, reduce half a rotis (Indian Flat Bread) and add a spoon of pulse separately. Or just add a few roasted Chickpea Lentils on the side to this meal. Or just include that extra protein in any other way like from Curd ( Dahi ) etc.

Achieve this goal by many many ways available but make it a point to keep it simple and don’t compromise on taste, otherwise, this will not be sustainable,” says the nutritionist.

So the next time you are required to add something to your diet, find an alternative that you feel is sustainable instead of blindly following trending diets.