Monday, July 18, 2011

FOOD



Samhebaji (Newari food)

mixed bag 237This dish is local in Newar community. In each and every festival for god and goddess this is cooked. It has many more veriety than in this picture. It is so delicious and rich / heave food. People drink rice wine or rice beer (home made)/chhyang with this dish. It takes quite a long time for all the veriety to be ready. It is eaten on leaf plate. People sit on mat(sukul) on the ground like in a row. So it looks nice when all seat in a row and eat Samhebaji. In this picture, white bread is thin rice pancake made of rice flour. On this bread, is beaten rice (crunchy cooked rice), then on it is roastedblack soyabean, fried ginger and garlic pieces, small fried fish. At the sides  green garlic fried, white beans curry, potatoes mashed in Newari style, roasted buff meata(Chhoyala), fried eggs like plain omellete, bara wo under egges, well mashed raw buff meat. Not only this much there are many more like cauliflower curry, Newari mixed pickle, bamboo potato curry(Aalutama), green leaf vegetable(sag) and many more. In second picture there is one more rice pancake on top, before serving.
This dish is local in Newar community. In each and every festival for god and goddess this is cooked. It has many more veriety than in this picture. It is so delicious and rich / heave food. People drink rice wine or rice beer (home made)/chhyang with this dish. It takes quite a long time for all the veriety to be ready. It is eaten on leaf plate. People sit on mat(sukul) on the ground like in a row. So it looks nice when all seat in a row and eat Samhebaji. In this picture, white bread is thin rice pancake made of rice flour. On this bread, is beaten rice (crunchy cooked rice), then on it is roastedblack soyabean, fried ginger and garlic pieces, small fried fish. At the sides  green garlic fried, white beans curry, potatoes mashed in Newari style, roasted buff meata(Chhoyala), fried eggs like plain omellete, bara wo under egges, well mashed raw buff meat. Not only this much there are many more like cauliflower curry, Newari mixed pickle, bamboo potato curry(Aalutama), green leaf vegetable(sag) and many more. In second picture there is one more rice pancake on top, before serving.                                                          taken-by-smila-3081







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