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Nepalese recipes

6 Nepalese recipes, from the everyday to the ambitious.

The 6 recipes cover 3 of the site’s categories, among them 3 dinners, 2 appetisers and small plates and 1 breakfast. None of them is ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish. For 2, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 3 easy and 3 medium.

As written, 4 are vegetarian, 3 vegan, 3 gluten-free and 3 dairy-free.

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Nepalese recipes — all 6 recipes

Vegetable Momos
Nepalese
Prep
40m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Appetizers

Vegetable Momos

Pleated Himalayan dumplings of finely chopped cabbage and carrot, steamed and eaten with a fiery tomato chutney.

100 min · Medium
Dal Bhat
Nepalese
Prep
30m
Cook
60m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Dal Bhat

The Nepali daily meal: steamed rice, a thin spiced lentil soup, a potato and cauliflower curry and a tomato pickle…

90 min · Medium
Sel Roti
Nepalese
Prep
15m
Cook
30m
Serves
6
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Bread

Sel Roti

Ring-shaped, crisp-edged, soft-centred Nepali doughnuts of rice flour, banana and cardamom, fried in ghee. Made for…

105 min · Medium
Thukpa
Nepalese
Prep
20m
Cook
35m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Thukpa

A warming Himalayan noodle soup of chicken, vegetables and egg noodles in a spiced broth, finished with lime and…

55 min · Easy
Nepali Aloo Tama
Nepalese
Prep
10m
Cook
35m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Nepali Aloo Tama

A Nepali sour curry of potatoes and bamboo shoots with black-eyed beans, cumin, turmeric and tomato.

45 min · Easy
Chicken Choila
Nepalese
Prep
15m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Appetizers

Chicken Choila

Chargrilled chicken pieces tossed while hot with ginger, garlic, ground spices, mustard oil and green chilli, a…

35 min · Easy