Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Someone's in the kitchen with Lhamo

Cooking with Lhamo

Thanks to Lonely Planet, I decided to take a Tibetan cooking class during my stay in McLeod Ganj. I spent three wonderful mornings with Lhamo, a local Tibetan and learned how to make momos (dumplings), soup and bread.

Cooking with Lhamo

The classes were great. Lhamo's a pro.

Cooking with Lhamo

The momos were the best. We made veggie momos, spinach and cheese momos and brown-sugar sesame-seed momos.

Cooking with Lhamo

We made the momo dough and rolled the momo dough.

Cooking with Lhamo

Then we steamed the momos. Then we ate the momos. We ate them with a mixture of cabbage, soy sauce and ketchup. I asked if ketchup was authentic Tibetan food. Lhamo said in Tibet they would use fresh tomatoes, but he liked ketchup.

Cooking with Lhamo

Day two: Soup!

Cooking with Lhamo

First we made small momos then put them in a homemade soup broth.

Cooking with Lhamo

Day three: bread!

Cooking with Lhamo

This little pocket is full of veggies, spices and oil. We made the dough from scratch and knotted it and put in the oven.

Cooking with Lhamo

Bread number two involved twisting.

Cooking with Lhamo

And oily hands.

Cooking with Lhamo

We steamed the twisted dough and veggie mixture and baked the knotted loaf. Everything was amazing.

I held off from posting and recipes so you'll have to visit Lhamo yourself when you're in the area. The classes were 300 Rs each or about $6 CAD. Not too shabby for a deliciously home-cooked meal that you had a part in making.

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