
Across the highlands
Jhangora Ki Kheer
Barnyard millet kheer, slowly simmered in milk and scented with cardamom
WARMTH AT ALTITUDE
Barley, butter, chilli and long hours by the fire.
Four countries, one landscape, one table.

RECIPE OF THE DAY · Friday, November 13
Barnyard millet kheer, slowly simmered in milk and scented with cardamom
80 min · 4 servings · Across the highlands
ONE LANDSCAPE, MANY KITCHENS
ONE LANDSCAPE, FOUR COUNTRIES
Momo are called momo in Lhasa, Kathmandu, Thimphu and Gangtok, and taste a little different in each. Look at one country only and you lose half the recipes — and half the story.
THE RECIPE COLLECTION
Showing recipes that contain all selected ingredients.

Across the highlands
Barnyard millet kheer, slowly simmered in milk and scented with cardamom

Across the highlands
Black soybeans from Kumaon, toasted until they crackle, then simmered thick and dark

Across the highlands
Chickpeas in a creamy, spiced yogurt sauce with ghee and whole spices

Across the highlands
Fried whole wheat breads stuffed with black gram, from Himachal Pradesh

Across the highlands
Soft steamed yeast buns filled with walnuts and poppy seeds, brushed with ghee


Across the highlands
Fermented buckwheat flatbreads from Himachal Pradesh, golden and full of tiny holes

Across the highlands
Hunza's whole wheat bread stuffed with spiced mince, finished in ghee

Ladakh
A firm dough of roasted barley, wheat and pea flour, everyday food from Ladakh

Ladakh
A warming Ladakhi vegetable stew with little hand-pressed dough shells

Across the highlands
Hearty lamb soup-stew with winter vegetables and little bow-tie noodles

Across the highlands
Crisp semolina cookies with ghee and cardamom, fried golden and made for chai

Across the highlands
Dried lichen with fatty pork and pig's blood, richly spiced in the karai

Across the highlands
Fermented soybeans with onion, chilli and tomato — bold alongside rice

Across the highlands
Buckwheat porridge with cinnamon, honey and blueberries

Across the highlands
Nepali sesame achar with charred tomatoes, chili and timur

Nepal
A Nepali set meal: rice in the middle, dal, chicken curry, aloo tama and pickle

Across the highlands
Nepali radish achar with mustard oil, Sichuan peppercorns (timur) and fenugreek


Across the highlands
Fire-roasted tomatoes with sesame, timur and crisp fried garlic

Across the highlands
Skewered goat marinated with timur, ginger and garlic, grilled over wood embers

Across the highlands
Creamy nettle soup with potatoes, ghee and a whisper of nutmeg

Across the highlands
Nepali dried meat, fried up hot and spicy — served with chiura

Across the highlands
Nepali curry of potatoes, fermented bamboo shoots and black-eyed peas

Kathmandu Valley (Newar)
Newar festive platter from the Kathmandu Valley: chiura, choila, bara and bhatmas

Kathmandu Valley (Newar)
Thick, lightly sweetened yogurt from Bhaktapur, set in a clay pot

Kathmandu Valley (Newar)
Flame-grilled buffalo with Sichuan pepper (timur) and smoking mustard oil

Kathmandu Valley (Newar)
Crisp mung bean cakes from the Newar kitchen, fried golden in a shallow pan

Kathmandu Valley (Newar)
Char-grilled meat tossed with chilli, garlic and timur, finished with smoking mustard oil

Across the highlands
Bhutanese chilli salsa with cream cheese, tomato and spring onion

Kathmandu Valley (Newar)
Crisp rice-flour pancake with spiced minced meat, egg and fresh coriander

Across the highlands
Buckwheat pancakes from the pan — golden at the edges, soft in the middle

Across the highlands
Bhutanese red rice, cooked fluffy and finished with butter

Across the highlands
Steamed buckwheat dumplings with spinach, cheese and green chili

Kathmandu Valley (Newar)
Creamy lentil dal with rice, greens and a vegetable curry

Across the highlands
Sweet buttered rice with raisins and cashews, served warm in small bowls

Across the highlands
Bhutanese dried beef, braised soft with chilies and radish

Across the highlands
Scrambled eggs with melted cheese, garlic and chilli — ready in 20 minutes

Across the highlands
Bhutanese chicken stew with ginger, garlic and green chili

Across the highlands
Mushrooms in a creamy cheese sauce with green chilies, ready in half an hour

Across the highlands
Braised pork belly with daikon, dried chilies and ginger

Across the highlands
Soft pan-cooked flatbread with ghee — on the table in an hour

Across the highlands
Lamb curry with potatoes, coconut milk and whole spices


Across the highlands
Barley soup with bacon, root vegetables and a splash of cream


Across the highlands
Paper-thin flatbread that puffs into a balloon in hot oil

Tibet
Tibetan half-moon pastries with a spiced beef filling, fried until golden


Tibet
Tibetan skillet bread made with baking powder — on the table in 45 minutes

Tibet
Rice blood sausage in natural casing — cooled, sliced and fried in the pan



Across the highlands
Moist potato bread with wholemeal flour, crisp outside, soft within


Solu-Khumbu (Sherpa)
Sherpa potato flatbread, hot from the pan, with chilli-cheese achaar and butter


Tibet
Tibetan noodle soup with hand-torn noodles, vegetables and ginger

Across the highlands
Steamed dumplings with a spiced cheese filling — street-style, with a dip

Kathmandu Valley (Newar)
Spicy tomato and chilli chutney for momos, with garlic, ginger and timur


Bhutan
Green chillies simmered in melting cheese — Bhutan's national dish


Tibet
Tibetan meat pockets with a spiced beef filling, fried until golden

Tibet
Noodle soup with vegetables, ginger and chili — a whole meal in one bowl

Remove an ingredient or change the search.
One of several
This collection belongs to a series of recipe sites.
Discover Georgian cuisine, Korean cuisine, Hungarian cuisine, Japanese cuisine, Spanish and Portuguese cuisine, Mexican cuisine, Nordic cuisine and Persian cuisine as well.