Sheets of warm pappadam (puffed crisp bread made from lentil flour) preceded the meal and fennel sprinkles and rock sugar ended it.

Pandit's papadum ($1), the crisp wafer made of lentil flour, is so good it is almost impossible to stop eating.

Poppadam, wafer-thin Indian bread made with lentil flour ($1), along with mint and tamarind dips, are perfect with drinks and as an appropriate dinner prelude.

Vada, crisp, spicy doughnuts made with lentil flour, make a nice counterpoint to the iddly.

A Map This place offers excellent Punjabi vegetarian thalis (plate meals) consisting of various curries, rice, dhal, bhajia (vegetables fried in lentil flour) and chapatis.

Mysorepa (a sweet made from lentil flour and Halwa (a sweet made of different ingredients like milk, wheat, rice) are famous.

Unlike the wheat- and rice-flour noodles described by Ms. Sahni, the pastas at Dean & DeLuca, called Papadini, are made from lentil flour.

Among other things, there are doughnuts made of lentil flour, and fried pastries filled with vegetables, served with ginger and coconut chutnies.

Balls of cumin-spiced lentil flour are deep-fried and served with a mustard-flavor yogurt sauce.

It consists of a crepe, made with lentil flour, fried crisp and paper thin, then rolled into a hollow tube 18 inches long.