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Lobsang Wangdu shares with you his personal Tibetan recipes. Tibetan food has the unique quality of being extra warming. Maybe because Tibet is so high and so often cold, Tibetan food developed this special quality. We don’t know, but in addition to tasting AMAZINGLY good, it definitely warms you up!
We’re proud to say one of our recipes — for sepen, Tibetan hot sauce — has been featured in the New York Times dining section along with an article that quoted YoWangdu’s Lobsang Wangdu talking about Tibetan food in exile.
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Momos — Recipe for Tibetan Dumplings The most well-known and beloved of Tibetan dishes, momos are dumplings filled with either meat or vegetable mixtures. In this post, Lobsang Wangdu shares both of his excellent recipes with you. |
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Vegetarian Guthuk Recipe Warm, wonderful, hearty veg version of the recipe for the popular guthuk noodle soup traditionally eaten at the end of the year. For a meat version of the soup, see our thukpa bhatuk recipe. |
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Tibetan Home Cooking Cookbook Learn how to bring joy to the people you love by making your own authentic, delicious Tibetan meals — momos, sha baglep, thukpa, etc. — with detailed written recipes and step-by-step videos. |
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Losar – Tibetan New Year A guide to how Tibetans celebrate the Tibetan New Year, including making a Losar shrine, recipes for guthuk, khapse and dresil, nyi shu gu traditions, momos and how to make po cha and tsampa! |
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Butter Tea – Recipe to Make Your Own Tibetan Tea (Po Cha) Authentic Tibetan tea recipe by Lobsang Wangdu. Tibetans traditionally drink many cups of this hot, salty, buttery tea every day. |
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Tibetan Bread: Amdo Balep Lobsang Wangdu shows you how to bake authentic Tibetan bread from the Amdo region of Tibet. The crusty, round, yeasted loaves are wonderful eaten hot. |
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Recipe for Comfort —Thenthuk — “Pull” Noodle Soup Easy, delicious recipe for Tibetan hand-pulled noodle soup by Lobsang Wangdu. Nothing is better on a cold winter evening. |
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Shogo Khatsa: Spicy Potatoes If you’re a person who can handle some hot peppers, you are going to love our friend Nyima’s wonderful shogo khatsa — spicy potatoes — recipe. |
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Can I Cook Tibetan Food at Home? Yes! We give you some pointers on how to find or substitute even the most challenging and unusual ingredients. |
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Sepen: Tibetan Hot Sauce Recipe Yummy, authentic recipe from Tsering Tamding, our marvelous guest chef. This is a variation of the traditional Tibetan hot sauce, with a tomato base. |
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Khapse Recipe: How to Make Tibetan Losar Pastries Lobsang Wangdu teaches you how to make the most common and simple Losar khapse, called nyapsha. Includes a video. |
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Changkol: To Start Losar Morning off Right Try some changkol, as Tibetans do, for the first dish you eat on the first day of Losar, Tibetan New Year :-) |
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Shapale — Tibetan Fried Meat Pie Recipe Lobsang Wangdu’s delicious, authentic recipe for Tibetan fried meat pies. This is one of the all-time favorite dishes for Tibetans. |
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Tsampa: It Doesn’t Get More Tibetan Than This! An introduction to the most uniquely Tibetan food, tsampa. Tsampa is flour made from roasted barley, and has a nutty, hearty flavor. |
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Tibetan Food: A Visual Guide Are you new to Tibetan food? Or just want a reminder of some of your favorites? Here are images of 25 of the most beloved Tibetan recipes. |
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Tibetan Chang: How to Make Rice Beer Our guest chef Kelsang Chodron shows you, with a video, her family’s authentic, easy recipe for drechang, Tibetan rice beer. |
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Insider’s Guide to Losar Eating Part 1 An introduction to Tibetan New Year food traditions leading up to Losar, including preparing Losar pastries called khapse, the Eve of New Year’s Eve soup called guthuk, and the chemar bo. |
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Your Insider’s Guide to Losar Eating — Part 2 A peek into a contemporary Tibetan farmer family’s Losar food traditions for the first three days of Losar, like the bringing in of the important first water of the year at 3 a.m.(!) on the first day of Losar. |
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Tibetan Bread — Balep Lobsang Wangdu’s quick, easy recipe for the standard Tibetan pan bread. |
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How Well Do You Know Your Tibetan Food? Test how much you really know about Tibetan cuisine with this list of eleven sometimes surprising facts about Tibetan cuisine. |
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Your Guide to Momos Learn about Tibetan momos from a Tibetan chef — with a momo-making video and a vegetarian momo recipe. Enjoy! |
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Dresil Recipe: Easy Tibetan Sweet Rice Learn an easy, authentic recipe for the Tibetan sweet rice served at Losar and other special occasions. |
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Thue: An Original Tibetan Treat Learn how to make thue, a sweet, cheesy, buttery treat often eaten at Losar and other special occasions. |
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Thukpa Bhathuk Recipe Lobsang Wangdu shows you his easy recipe for “bhatsa” noodle soup. The bhatsa are little hand-rolled scoops of noodle that are fun to make. |
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Nyi-shu-Gu Traditions: The Eve of New Year’s Eve Rituals for purifying your home and body in the closing days of the old year, including the fun guthuk noodle soup, and the lue, the effigy that symbolizes all the negativity we want to be rid of. |
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How to Cook Dal Bhat, Tibetan Style A recipe showing you how to cook dal bhat as Tibetans do. Lobsang Wangdu teaches you his very fast, easy and flavorful recipe for masoor dal (red lentil), served with rice. |
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Momo Burger: Best. Burger Ever. Recipe for an easy and truly scrumptious blend of traditional meat momos with hamburgers, by Tibetan chef Lobsang Wangdu. They taste great :-) |
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Laping: Cold Spicy Noodles A cool and spicy dish, laping is especially refreshing in summer. |
If you would like to explore more of the wonderfully comforting, unusual flavors of traditional Tibetan food, please see our Tibetan Home Cooking eBook and video series.
This series focuses exclusively on authentic recipes that are commonly cooked in Tibetan homes, and includes the most beloved dishes that have been passed down in Tibetan families for hundreds of years.
You can learn how to bring joy to the people you love by making your own delicious, authentic Tibetan meals tonight.
Download the eBook and video series now — it’s genuinely a bargain at $27 :-)
These are the recipes you get in Tibetan Home Cooking, each accompanied by a step by step video:
Breads
- Tingmo: buns
- Amdo balep: Yeasted round loaf
- Logo momo: Fried/steamed bread
- Numtrak balep: Deep-fried bread
- Balep korkun: Pan bread
For Veggie Lovers
- Shamey momo: Steamed vegetable dumplings
- Shamey balep: Fried pies with vegetable filling
- Shameytse: Cabbage and shiitake mushrooms
- Shamey mothuk: Vegetable dumplings in soup
- Trang tsel: Fresh salad
For Meat Lovers
- Sha momo: Steamed beef dumplings
- Labsha: Radish and beef
- Sha balep: Fried beef pies
- Thukpa gyathuk: “Chinese” style noodles
- Shaptra: Fried beef
- Sha mothuk: Beef dumplings in soup
- Rutang: Beef-based soup
- Shaptse: Beef with cabbage
- Shamdrey: Beef + rice + potatoes
- Drothuk: Beef porridge
A Little Something for Everyone
- Thentuk: “Pull” noodle soup
- Pa: Tsampa with butter tea
- Sepen: Hot sauce
- Po cha: Tibetan (Butter) tea
- Thukpa bhathuk: Soup with small hand-made pasta
Sweets
- Dresil: Sweet rice
- Bhatsa marku: Buttered small hand-made pasta
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By Lobsang Wangdu
