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Nepali recipes

4 Nepali recipes for a home kitchen, from 45 minutes. Have some of the ingredients already? Match them to what you have.

Dinner

Aloo tama, photographed from above 45 min

Nepali · dinner

Aloo tama

Nepali sour curry of potatoes, black-eyed peas and fermented bamboo shoots.
Dal bhat, photographed from above 60 min

Nepali · dinner

Dal bhat

Nepal's daily meal: rice and lentil soup tempered with jimbu or cumin, with a vegetable tarkari and pickle.
Chicken momos, photographed from above 90 min

Nepali · dinner

Chicken momos

Nepali-Tibetan steamed dumplings with spiced chicken filling and a roasted tomato achar.

Baking & sweets

Sel roti, photographed from above 60 min

Nepali · baking

Sel roti

Nepali ring-shaped sweet rice doughnuts, crisp outside and soft inside—made for Tihar and Dashain.

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