Plz help me ! how can i prepare Indian herbal phool makhana?

Makhana is NOT lotus seed. Makhana , or Euryale ferox (also known as fox nut or foxnut),is a flowering plant in the water lily family, Nymphaeaceae.

How to pop - The popping method of GORGON nut is slightly different than other cereal grains because of "hard slnell of the nut. About 300 g of preheated and tempered nuts are taken and roasted in a cast iron pan in single layer over the fire with continuous stirring. Within two minutes, a crackling sound is heard from the nuts being roasted. This is an indication of the optimum roasting of nuts. The roasted nuts, 5 to 7 in number, are scooped quickly by hand from the pan and kept on a hard surface and sudden impact force is applied on them by means of a wooden hammer. As soon as the hard shell breaks, the kernel pops out in expanded form, which is known as Ma.khana., and shell splits are separated out manually. The yield of MAKHANA is approximately one third on raw seed weight basis.

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http://www.makhanawet.com/processing.htm

lovely dish .. here's two recipes and a full explanation of "Popped lotus seed curry"

http://andhraparis.blogspot.com/2006/03/phool-makh...

http://www.spicesofindia.co.uk/acatalog/TRS-Phool-...