We all love the delicious chanay, a true delight with poori, in Pakistan, and a side of batura across the border in India.

I do not remember the first time I had chanay poori, I’ve been eating it all my life and loving it. The proverbial poori chanay ka nashta is what we immigrants crave for and that is my first meal on all my visits to the motherland.

Chanay is a legume, and when legumes are hulled and split it is observed that they make for easy cooking and digestion. The subcontinent is known for innovatively cooking chanay in a variety of ways.

We serve spicy packaged chanay snacks and chana choor garam sold by the wandering neighbourhood vendour, chana chaat, chanay key daal ka halwa and the ever favourite Multani cholay, Amritsari cholay and chikaar cholay, a Punjabi delight.