Momo Magic

Cooking Dahl Bhat

A couple of weeks ago V, N, K, J and I went for a cooking course near the Bouddha stupa. It took place in a German hotel that J had stayed in. We were joined by two other volunteers and spent the morning making an array of Nepali staples: tomato, sesame and cucumber pickles’, momo’s, barra (a lentil flour pancake), chiya and the obligatory dahl bhat. The down side of this is that we were exposed to the outrageous levels of oil and salt used in Nepali cooking. The rules of thumb appeared to be that you could never get enough of either of these ingredients and if in doubt, add more oil or salt. We were regularly reprimanded for our judicious use of salt with more being thrown into our dishes regardless. The amount of ginger and garlic we got through was also phenomenal but this can only be a good thing.

After the lesson we sat outside to taste our efforts which were pretty good, even if our momo’s did break away from the traditional form. The photo above shows the momo’s ready for steaming. I’ll endeavor to hold a few Nepali dinner’s when I get back.
NB Momo Magic is also the name of my favourite momo restaurant in Kathmandu.