[gnufied]

This reminds me of my childhood in India where my grandma and mom will "fry" everything whole and it used to be delicious. Little but chopped onion, cilantro and lemon makes it even yummier.

I said fried for lack of better word but the way it gets done is - just stir and toss them with hot sand in a wide mouth clay pot. When it is done, just use a sieve to separate sand and the grain.

It is pretty wholesome snack. Cooked wheat, corn, rice, chickpeas. U name it.

EDIT - Here is a video of it https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8xW3gFxN34c

[apnew]

I am assuming, you are talking about something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kokO6XqJvAE. If so, it's not sand, it's salt.

[gnufied]

I am pretty sure it used to be sand. Comments on same youtube video:

> Sand is also used in a similar process, but only for roasting groundnuts/peanuts, which can be cleaned easily afterward.

[apnew]

Interesting, TIL.

[JoeAltmaier]

I read where that is the world's oldest cooking technique!

[gnufied]

Yeah I think sand is used to control the heat distribution, which is hard to do when you are cooking over fire from wood or something similar.