Monkey Monday: Nepali breakfast edition 14 January 2008 12:49 pm
Posted by Tracy in : breakfast,cooking,nepal,pictures,tea,vegetarian , trackbackQuick summary: Over the weekend, news articles about the death of Sir Edmund Hillary made me all Nepal-nostalgic (Nepalgic?), with delicious (and photogenic) results. Read on for the not-so-quick version.
As I’ve mentioned before, one of my favorite things to eat at the Hotel Utse was their special Nepali breakfast of potato-vegetable curry and fried unleavened poori bread:
So delicious! Last Thursday night, I finally worked up my courage to attempt a version in my home kitchen, and it worked!
Yum. (Note how there is only one poori left in the second picture — this is because I could not resist testing mine, not even long enough to take a picture.) I based the tea on this recipe, but I added about an inch of fresh ginger, roughly chopped, to my spice mix. The potato curry is based very loosely on a recipe from the original Vegetarian Epicure
Notes and conclusions: I need to work on my deep-frying technique (perhaps by finally sucking it up and getting a deep fryer) but for a first attempt I’m pretty darn proud of the results. I made enough dough for about four servings of two or three pooris each, and I refrigerated the leftovers for later use, which worked out well enough, although I think the bread made with fresh (never refrigerated) dough had the best texture, even though I tried to let the refrigerated dough come back to room temperature before frying it. Also I might experiment with different ratios of whole wheat to white flour, but any recipe worth trying again counts as a success as far as I’m concerned.
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