Ingredients cooked in the pot consist of rice, green gram and milk. The plant remains included barley, lentil, common pea, grass pea and black gram/green gram. Rice is the major cultivated crop, followed by Black gram and Green gram. Thavanaipal, a gruel prepared with rice and green gram, is distributed to the devotees. Bikaner is the hub of chickpea and green gram "papadam" manufacturing. Commonly used legumes include pigeon pea, chickpea, black gram and green gram. Chandrakanti is a deep-fried dessert made from green gram and rice flour. They use it to make Sindhi curry and fry it with "moong dal" (green gram). The main occupation of people in Asoda is farming of cotton, black gram, green gram. Generally kosambari is made of green gram, grated coconut, coriander and chili. The species' most preferred habitat is in the tropics, on green gram or chickpeas. Other food grain crops include toor, green gram, moong, gram, barley, and maize. The green gram is an annual vine with yellow flowers and fuzzy brown pods. Roasted Bengal gram, green gram, roasted "chana dal" ("putani") or aval can be used. Some variations also include green gram (moong) and pigeon pea (tuar/arhar) instead of black gram.