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This yummy food is suit for those who likes hot and spicy. Well easy to prepare. Just make ordinary momos and make sauce with some vegetables and chillies!!.

Here we need only some vegetables what you find around, like spring onion,tomatos, capsicum, onion,green chillies.

Make the pan hot and put some oil. Then fry some chopped garlic. When it gets bit brown, fry some flour till it gets brownish, you can fry cut vegetables or you can cook it without frying, then add some water and all those cut vegetables then cook it for some time. Put salt,pepper as your taste. You can put some red chilly powder as your taste. It makes this item colorful.  When is cooked deep cooked momos and serve it hot. hmmmmmmmmmmmmm delicious!!

It is my great pleasure to  post this recipe in request of  Sue Oliver(New Zea land). I hope you all will find great taking this soup for winter. It is summer here in Nepal, so some of masalas, i couldn’t find it. I will post it in winter as i find it.

This is made up of different types of cereal and masalas which makes you warm in winter.  You can make it as you need the portion for whole winter. This is really really good for everyone who likes cereal. It is rich food belongs to Newars  in valley in Nepal. Especially in Bhaktapur. We still take it in mornings as breakfast in winter. It makes not only warm plus  prevents from catching  cold. In winter we feel hungry soon as we digest food easier than summer. So this helps you to give more stamina for longer.

Ingredients:

1. rice 4 cups

2. green lentil( moongi) 1 cup

3. soya bean, brown  1 cup

4. soya bean, black two big spoon

5. green peas half cup

6. wheat 1 cup

7. some other lentil or beans what you have

8. some special aayurbedic masalas( it includes more than 10 verity of  like jwano, harro ,jeera barro,peepla,keshar etc.)

9. some butter or ghee

10. some salt as your taste

How to prepare??

First we need to fry dry or roast like popcorn in a pan or in a pot like pressure cooker(means bit thick one). Fry one at a time small portion in a low flame of stove until it gets good looking brown.

Then after fry different lentil or grains one at a time.

Then grind it in grinder and make  flour.

All masalas should be dry and grind it .

When you grind all, not much like powdered, not too much grind is nicer.

Then mix up all  flour you just made rice,lentil, beans,masalas then make it cool.

Now store it in vacumed dried  jar or bottle.

You can cook it as much you want per day.

First make a pot hot . Boil some water about 2/3 glasses in another pot.

Put some ghee as you like then fry a masala,  jwano when it gets black  and fry some prepared flour about one big spoonfull for per bowl. If you are preparing for two people take two big spoonfull and boiled water about two glasses.

You fry it in ghee until it gets nice brown look, then add boiled water .

Stir it well then add salt as your taste. cook it until gets bit thicker. As you like !!

Now you serve it hot with bread or chapati.

Enjoyyyyyyyyyyyy BULUCHA !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hmmmmmmmmm…..my mouth waters when ever i  see yomari. It is so delicious, good to eat when it is cold. Among Newari food, Yomari is eaten in winter in Nepal and it falls in another fullmoon day in winter, during November. We can make many different shape and taste, like with meat, sweet, lentil etc. We should practice some to make its proper shape. If you can make thin one is better. In Nepal, among Newars, they use this in birthdays. Like when baby is two years old,  he/she is worshiped with garland of two of these yomari. Same for when he/she gets 4 years/ 6 years/ 8 years/ 10 years and 12 years old. It looks very beautiful with this yomari garland for birthday boy/girl.This Yomari is used in other celebrations also, like when some lady is pregnant and when she is going to give her child to birth, before this time she is given lots of food to eat including this Yomari. So Yomari has very important meaning in Newars’ society.

Ok let’s prepare it.

Ingredients:

1. Rice flour about one kg.

2. mixture of ( sweet/ meat/ lentil etc.) what you like to make of.To make from lentil, you need to keep lentil (black/green) in to water  one whole night. Then clean it, all its out layer should be taken out. And grind it well, put some salt as your taste , some paste of garlic and ginger. To make from meat you need to make mixture of meat as you like as you prepare for momos. Only you don’t put momo masala in mixture. Same what ever you want you can make mixture.In the picture, this is mixture of black lentil and almost ready to cook in Yomari. Now make dough of rice flour and make Yomari shape.Now in this type of shape you put lentil and close it. Then steam it as we cook momos in steamer.After steaming them, serve them with tea / coffee.

Chhoyala is Newari food and good to take as snacks with some drinks.  It is one of  verity of  Samhebaji. You can make it either boiled meat or roasted meat. Most people like roasted one.

Ingredients: ( For a plate)

1. Buff, about half kilo of fresh flesh or if you like some thin skin also good

2. Mustard oil about 4/5 big spoon of

3. Paste of ginger and garlic paste about two big spoon of

4. Paste of dry red chilly about a big spoon of or as your taste

5. Salt as your taste

6. Some roasted tomato paste about a  big spoon of

7. Some green coriander chopped

8. Some chopped onion if you like only

First of all cut buff  flesh and skin in to long shaped like a garland. Then put karahi(deep pan) on stove and make it hot. Then put some mustard oil in it about a big spoon of. Now cook cut buff in karahi covering with its karahi cap. First of all when cooking,  some water portion  from flesh comes out. We need to cook until all water part vapours. Stir it up and down. Then it starts to roast. Roast it until meat looks brownish. If you like more you can roast it more until it looks bit black. Then take karahi out of stove and put some ginger paste, stir it properly and cover it for a while about ten minutes until it gets cool. Then take that roasted meat out of karahi and cut into pieces as you like (small/big) pieces.

Then put garlic, ginger paste, salt, chilly paste, mustard oil and mash it properly. Use your hand for mashing. Then put paste of roasted tomato and some more mustard oil and mash it more. Then garnish it with chopped green coriander and chopped onion. Now it is ready to serve. This dish is more tasty  eating while it is just ready.

Have fun!!!!You can make this chhoyala using othere meat like chicken and mutton instead of buff meat. It is your choice. Chicken Chhoyala and Mutton Chhoyala are also tasty.

Pakauda is nice eating like a snack with a drink, soft or hard.

Ingredients:

1. Some boiled potatoes, well mashed.

2. Some half boiled vegetables like green beans, cabbages, onion,  carrots, cauliflower, spring onion, green coriander, one green chilly(well chopped).

3. Salt to taste

4. Some garlic and ginger paste, some red chilli powder, some egg, some cornflour, some soya sauce, some gramflour.

5. Oil for deep frying.

Put all the chopped vegetables in a bowl. Put all the masalas in portion of how much of vegetables have you prepared. Mix all the masalas and mash them well. The thickness of the mixture should be like easy to make ball. Cook oil in a deep pan. When oil get hot then start to fry balls for a while. You need to cook them until they look light brown. Then take the balls out of pan and pat them as a coin. Then fry them once again until it gets brown. Now take them out of the pan and put on a tissue paper to soak  much oil from  pakauda. Then serve the pakauda putting some indian masala(chat masala) on top of them.

CHEERS!!!!!!!!

Nepali tea, what we find in shops everywhere in Nepal is milk tea. Add some dry masalas will be masala tea. It is so nice for refreshment, with different taste. I hope you all like to drink it time to time.

Ingredient (for two cups ):

1.two cups of water

2.some milk (as much thicker you like)

3.a small piece of ginger

4.a dry bay leaf

5.half of tea spoon of cinnamon

6.two pieces of cardamom

7.sugar as you like

8.normal tea,  a tea spoon full

Take a tea pot and boil water then put all those masalas with tea, boil it for some time. We need to boil it well until all those masalas goes to water, then add milk as much you like.then serve it with your snack. Your mood will change to jolly mood after your tired day.

Bara Wo is delicious lentil pancake. We can make from any type of lentil like black lentil, green lentil or any other type. Newars from Kathmandu valley use this occasionlly. Specially for some happy occasions like wedding, ceremonies, birthdays. It is used with other food. It is used with Newari set lunch called ‘Samhebaji’. For occasions like birthdays and wedding it is used for good-luck called ‘Sagun’. In sagun set there are some fried eggs, some fried meat, fried small fish and bara Wo of course. This set of sagun gives luck to the special person, that Newars believe.

Lets try to make this.               INGREDIENT : (For about 10 pieces)

1.half kilos of dry lentil any of your choice.

2.two spoon full(big) of garlic and ginger paste.

3.some salt as your taste.

4some oil(any type,  mustard oil is better)

5.some chopped green garlic or some chopped green coriander(only if you like)

We need to soak over night for dry lentil. Then let’s peel the skin from lentil. To peel it’s skin keep in a big bowl and put that soaked lentil with some water. Then take some on your palm full then rub with your both palms. You repeat it for some time then pour down only water to another bowl. Skin from lentil will go with water. So this is the way we do in Nepal to peel lentil for Bara. Repeat this peeling until most of the skin goes away then blend that lentil. When we blend lentil we need to be careful to make it as a paste. It shouldn’t be liquid or very thick.Now in the blended lentil add salt as your taste and the paste we made of garlic and ginger. Put chopped green garlic and coriander.Then mash or stir it properly. Now it is ready to cook, Take a pan and make the heat medium. Put some oil and cook it on a pan making like a pancake. Size of lentil pancake Bara , you can make as you wish to make. You can make like in the picture below, or smaller or bigger. When one side is bit brown turn it to the other side. While cooking in this way you need to add some oil around the Bara with a spoon to cook it properly. Turn it in to the first side once again. To turn it to sides you need flat spoon. Now you can serve it hot to eat. It is delicious when it is hot. If you want to make it different type of Bara, yes, you can . Just add some eggs in the mixture or some blended meat, then cook it in a pan same as we have done before.

If you like it as deep fried, making lentil paste is the same. But paste should be more thicker than we made before, Then put some oil on your palm to make Bara, take some in your palm and make it in shape like round cake with a hole in the middle then cook it in hot oil.When it seems brown it is ready.

Hmmmmmmmmm……….mouth waters only by sound and smell of momos……..everyone  likes momos, not only children…adults too. Actually it is imported dish from China i guess. But all like to eat momo as lunch. It is kind of fast junk food. You can eat as your special whenever you like to. But how to make hygienic and delicious momos?Here it is.

STEAMED  BUFF MOMOS

INGREDIENT:(FOR TWO PERSONS)

1.two cups(normal tea cup) of white wheat flour

2.some water to make dough

3.ground meat if  you like buff or chicken momos about two cups.

4.some chopped onion, coriander green leaves, some cabbage chopped.

5.salt as your taste, momo masala (BMC indian masala if you have is better), some oil(mustard oil is better),some soyasauce for its color,some paste of garlic and ginger paste .

6.some chopped tomatoes, greenchillies, grinded soyabean powder, alt to taste and if you like hot some red chilly powder.

Now make dough, it should be doughy. Then mix all the chopped meat, veg. and masalas all together in a bowl.Mix them properly. Take a piece of dough and with the help of roller make round shaped bread about an inches from the center. Then take a spoon of mixed meat with masala and wrap with the bread you have  just rolled. You can wrap it in any shape, like round or shape like a leaf. Then cook it in a steamer. Now time to make pickle. You can make pickle to garnish and it is very good to eat  momos dipping in to this pickle.  Cook all these in a pan putting some oil. When it is cooked you grind it. Till this time check if momos are ready or not.When it is shining means it is cooked. Your momos are ready and serve them with pickle.:)