There are different ways to cook a Rice. If you use the right amount of water, the rice will be perfect. I put  1 1/2 cup of water for 1 cup of rice  in the Rice Cooker.

Plain Rice

Fried Curry Rice

Delicious Mouthwatering Spinach Spaghetti with Egg. Easy to cook than you think. Cooked and ready to served in 30 minutes. You want to try. Recipe will be posted soon……

Wai Wai Noodles

Wai Wai is the most consumed noodle in Nepal and for me it is still the number one noodle in Nepal. You can have it as Snacks, noodle or Soup.

Wai Wai is a Thai brand but Wai Wai that i buy in korean supermarket in Germany from Thailand taste not so good like the nepali Wai Wai. Wai Wai is even produces in India.

Here the Wai Wai noodle as Chowmein. Receipy is comming Soon……..

I found a very intresting food quiz about Nutrition from the World bank. It is very informative. We choose foods for taste, ethnic traditions, habit, availability and cost. Explore How your body uses the foods.

Many people belief that the biggest malnutrition problem is not Africa but it is south Asia where half of all children are undernourished. (The countries in South Asia are: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.)

Quiz from the Worlbank, By Clicking the checkbox below, the page will be linked to the worldbank

http://www.youthink.worldbank.org/issues/health/nutrition/1-q.php

Malnutrition is most dangerous for people at what age? Conception–2 years old 2–5 years old 5–10 years old

YOMARI PUNHI

Yomari Punhi -meaning full moon of yomari-one of the popular Newar festivals is observed every year during the full moon of December.A yomari is a confection of rice-flour (from the new harvest)dough shaped like fig and filled with brown cane sugar and sesame seeds, which is then steamed. This delicacy is the chief item on the menu during the post-harvest celebration of Yomari Punhi. On this full moon day, people of the Kathmandu Valley offer worship to Annapurna, the goddess of grains, for the rice harvest. Groups of kids go neighborhood to beg yomari cakes from housewives in the evening. Sacred masked dances are performed in the villages of Hari Siddhi and Thecho at the southern end of the Valley to mark the festival.

The Newars, upon munching a mouthful of yomari, a sweet dish, await the end of their four days of devotion of god, following which they will be blessed with wealth, according to their belief. The people prepare yomaris, in the form of gods and goddesses such as Kumar, Ganesh, Laxmi and Kuber. In keeping with the culture, parents bless children from two to twelve years who are then offered yomaris. The children on the other hand perform the customary song and dance and ask for food and other gifts from the elders during the festival.

The festival is said to have started from panchal nagar(present day Panauti). Myth has it that Suchandra and Krita, a married couple, first experimented with fresh yield of rice from their field. And what took shape turned out came to be known as yomari. The new delicacy was eventually distributed among the villagers. As the food was liked by all, the bread was named yomari, which literally means ‘tasty bread’. The myth further states that on the same day the couple offered the god of wealth, Kuber, the new delicacy, who was passing by in a disguise. Following this Kuber disclosed , his real identity and blessed the couple with wealth. He also declared that whoever will prepare yomari in the form of gods and goddesses on the full moon of December and observe four days of devotion to god, will get rid of poverty. The festival is celebrated on the second day when prayers are offered during which the yomaris are stored and not eaten on that very day. On the fourth and the final day the people belonging to the Newar community consume the sweet bread as a gift from gods and this practise also marks the end of the festival.

Source: http://www.nepalhomepage.com/society/festivals/yompun.html

YOMARI
Ingredients :

• - Rice flour
• - Hot water
• - Sweet
• - Sesame
• - Molasses
• - Khuwa

Direction:

• - Mix rice flour with hot water and make dough.
• - Shape it like as shown in picture but make sure that it is hollow.
• - Fill it with mixture of sweet, sesame and molasses or khuwa, then close the hole.
• - Steam it for 20 min.
• - Now it ready to serve.

Last time I invited some friends at my home for food. As We had so less time, we thought to buy the readymade MoMo in the Korean Shop. We bought the Vegetable Dumpling. At first I was not so sure, if it will be good. After having the Dumpling Vegetable ( MoMo in nepali), I was very postively suprise. It was Yummy delicious. To have the authentic newari MoMo cha taste, add just some nepali spices in the sausage. It will taste more like MoMo cha.

Make MoMo cha by yourself.

Steamed Dumplings: Put some water in the Steaming pan and heat. When the water is boiling, put dumplings on the steaming board and steam it for 5-6 minues for delicious steamed dumplings.

Fried Dumplings: Heat frying pan drizzled with oil and when the oil boils, weaken th fire and fry for 3-4 minutes wiht cover shut. Then open the cover and put 2 big spoonfuls of water into the pan for 10 dumplings and fry for 1-2 minutes.

Dumpling Soup: After putting the dumplings in the prepared soup, wait 5-6 minutes for delicious dumpling soup.

Microwave Oven: Put the dumplings on a microwave-safe disch, pour a bit of water and wrap the dish wiht shrink-wrap.

The Recipy is from the Youngwoo Frozen Foods Co. Ltd.

Kwati, Healthy Newari Soup

Kwati is the food of Mixed bean sprouts.It is one of the ideal food item in Nepalese culture.It is also regarded as one of the best apetizer food because of its cultural and medical importance over human body.Kwati especially was introduced among nepalese from Newari food.It also stands as one of the vital food stuff in the Newari food menu.

Preparation: Kwati is prepared by making beans sprout. Generally, there should be nine types of beans in the kwati(chana,kerau,moong,maas,razma,simi,bodi,sanu kerau,kauli chana). However, people may put four or five varieties in the kwati.Kwati is the special food which can enumerate all nine varieties of beans which should go into the ideal kwati. The beans are soaked for four to nine days; and when they redily start to germinate they are taken out and the sprouted beans are cooked to a thick soup . Kwati is generally served with boiled rice.

General use: People may eat kwati in accordance to their desires, but kwati is prescribed to be eaten at Janai purnima only, a festival in which boys wear sacred holy threads and girls tie a holy wrist band on their brother’s right hand to bless them with long life.

Social and ritual significance: Kwati is prescribed to be eaten at the Janai purnima (lit., the full moon of the sacred thread), a full moon when God Siva (a hindu God) is worshipped. Kwati is said to have several effects. It “makes one strong,” and it purifies one’s stomach because the beans sprouts are hard to digest and thus cleanse the stomach. Indeed, when kwati is eaten at Janai purnima, during the monsoon season, it is believed to cure several stomach related diseases. Moreover, eating kwati is said to kill a certain kind of worms in human body.

Traditional importance: However, people consider that it is related to the mysteries of creation and growth. That there are nine kinds of beans may reflect a relation to the Naudurga culture (a group od nine hindu goddesses), the culture of the nine Durgas,though not been able to be confirmed.

Exceptions: For one year after a demise, Kwati is not eaten in households where somebody had expired. People, living in other households, only observe this interdiction for twelve days: i.e., only in case the death occurred within the twelve days that precede Janai purnima. Kwati is not accepted from the lamaju castes.
Copyright (c) 2006. Saksham Ghimire, Kathmandu Don Bosco College.

Photos by debunix

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