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sattu is a very common fast food in summer season in north India and there is also sattu festival in U.P when its offerings are made to temples and kumaris are invited to eat it for blessings. it is essentially a mixture of roasted barley powder and roasted bengal gram powder. And they are mixed in the ratio of 2:1 or equal always keepting the amount of barley more. Thus it has very soothing and constructive effect on the body due to barley with more nutrition due to gram .It is ready to eat fast food. one has only to mix water in any proportion with salt or sugar to the taste. Roasted zeera is also ideally put in it when sattu is made at home. In olden days it was cheap as both cereal were cheap. For travelling persons it was a boon specially Hindus who would not eat roti from road side stalls .Bihari version of only Channa sattu is only a recent version. it is good for making paratha but its health value with respect to real sattu of barley and channa is reduced. In U.P shop keepers keep both Barley and gram powder separately and mix them in proportion as desired by customer. By Dr Govind prasad Lucknow