Eleven Sometimes Surprising Facts about Tibetan Food Test how much you really know about Tibetan cuisine with the list below. Give yourself a point for every fact in the list below you already knew, and please tell us in the comments below how well you did, or if you know any other facts [...]
Tibetan Food: A Visual Guide
April 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Tibetan food, which evolved to sustain a hardy people living at an average elevation of 16,000 feet, is like no other food in the world. Who else but Tibetans have a great time drinking salty tea and eating sweet rice in the same sitting? Or grow up on a steady diet of roasted barley flour [...]
Sha Mothuk: Beef Dumpling Soup
January 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
« Previous Page 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Next Page » Sha mothuk is a delicious soup version of the beloved Tibetan meat dumplings, momos. Tibetans love soup dishes, most likely due to a natural proclivity for warming foods at high altitude. The preparation for sha mothuk is fairly intensive, [...]
Sha Momo: Beef Dumplings
January 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next Page » Utterly unique and delicious, momos — Tibetan dumplings — are the most beloved dish of Tibet. Every Tibetan family has a slightly different momo recipe, with various theories on how to make them the most juicy and delicious, or how to keep [...]
Shamey Momo: Vegetable Dumplings
January 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
« Previous Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next Page » One of the wonderful things about momos is that we can cook them so many ways. Traditionally in Central Tibet, there were only sha (meat) momos, made from yak, but at some point in the Tibetan diaspora, vegetable fillings [...]
Dresil: Sweet Rice
January 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
« Previous Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next Page » Dresil, Tibetan sweet rice, is a lightly sweet dish that is typically served on special occasions. In Central Tibet, people eat it in the morning on the first day of Tibetan Losar — New Year, and also for other [...]
