Thursday, March 12, 2015

A Taste Of Nepal


What’s visiting Nepal if you don’t’t try some local food ? So go out and titillate your tongue. Restaurants in Kathmandu offer an exciting lineup reflecting the Kingdom’s potpourri of cultures extending from the highlands to the lowlands. Here’s a typical menu and have a delicious time.

Appetizers/Snacks 

1.      Chatamari : Rice pan-cake with meat or egg topping or plain. A just reward after a hard day’s sight – seeking.
  

2.       Chhoyla : Roasted meat diced and spiced, a versatile snack. Chomp it with rice flakes and wash everything down with homemade liquor.
 
3.    Kwati : Sopu of different sprouted beans. A festival specialty and great way to begin dinner.
                                            

     
  4.       Samaya Baji : A ritual dish consisting of rice flakes, roasted meat, smoked fish, boiled egg, black soyabeans and diced ginger.

Main Dishes

1.      Aloo Tama : Bamboo shoot and potato curry envlivened with a variety of spices and herbs.

2.      Rice : Good old boiled rice, the staple Nepalese nourishment and the central indredient of the dal – bhat – tarkari diet.
 




Relishes

1.      Achar : A pickle to “ brighten up your mouth”. Can be made og ground tomatoes, sliced radish, ground coriander, bolied and diced potatoes and other ingridents.

2.      Gundruk : Dried and fremneted vegetables grens. 



Desert 

1.  Juju Dhau : Delicious creamy yogurt from Bhaktapur, must at all feasts.

Homemade Drinks

1.   Raskshi / Ayla : is a fine water distilled from rice. It is colorless and best drunk neat.