| Legumes are prime source of plant proteins, calories and other nutrients. Extrusion cooking of legumes increases the digestibility of legume protein. Extrusion technology has been applied to generate analogues of foods made from animal products, as well as snacks using blends of various plant raw materials e.g. oil seeds [soybeans, peanut with a cereal flour]. Present work was under taken for producing extruded product from pigeon pea. The legumes viz. pigeon pea and Bengal gram were cleaned and ground to required particle size by multipurpose grinder mill to pass through sieve ASTM No. 20. The moisture content of sample was adjusted to 14% moisture level (w.b.). Before extrusion, the feed was allowed to come to ambient temperature and then remixed, after... |
