Traditional
Non-Fermented Foods of the Sikkim Himalayas
|
Product
|
Ingredient
|
Nature
and use
|
Dheroh
|
Maize/millet
|
Cooked
maize/millet; staple food
|
Phulaurah
|
Buckwheat
|
Deep-fried,
snack
|
Khalo
dal
|
Black
gram
|
Thick
dal; staple
|
Sidra
|
Dry
small fish
|
Roasted
dry fish, achar
|
Kwathi
|
Legumes
|
Cooked
sprouted legumes; curry
|
Kodo
ko roti
|
Finger
millet
|
Baked
millet flour; staple food
|
Phapar
ko roti
|
Buckwheat
|
Baked
buckwheat flour; staple food
|
Chambray
|
Rice
|
Soaked,
fried and cooked rice; staple
|
Rayo
sag
|
Brasicca spp.
|
Fried
vegetable; side-dish
|
Ban
tarul
|
Dioscorea
hamiltonii
|
Boiled/roasted;
staple
|
Shimrayo
|
Cardamine
hirsuta
|
Fried
young leaves; curry
|
Ghario
sishnu
|
Urtica
dioica
|
Boiled
and cooked; soup
|
Patle
sishnu
|
Laportee
terminalis
|
Boiled
and cooked; soup
|
Bhangrey
sishnu
|
Girardinia
diversifolia
|
Boiled
and cooked; soup
|
Sauney
ningro
|
Diplazium
polypodiodes
|
Fried
vegetable-chhurpi curry
|
Kali
ningro
|
Diplazium spp.
|
Fried
vegetable-chhurpi curry
|
Tama
|
Young
bamboo shoot
|
Boiled;
curry
|
Kalungey
cheu
|
Agaricus
sivaticus
|
Curry
|
Kanney
cheu
|
Pleurotus
sajor-caju
|
Curry
|
Chhwelaa
|
Buff
meat
|
Boiled,
cooked meat curry
|
Lhakha
mari
|
Wheat
flour
|
Deep
fried, sweet confectionery
|
Siltimbur
|
Listea
cubeba
|
Pickle
|
Timbur
|
Zanthoxylum
nitidum
|
Pickle
|
Chinday
|
Pentapanax
leschnaultii
|
Pickle
|
Lapsi
|
Choerospondis
axillaris
|
Pickle
|
Dalle
khorsani
|
Green/red
chili
|
Pickle
|
Thotne
|
Aconogonum
molle
|
Pickle
|
Koirala
|
Bauhinia
vareigata
|
Pickle
|
Chinping
|
Heracleum
nepalenese
|
Pickle
|
Kabra
|
Ficus
infecdoria
|
Pickle
|
Kukurdaine
|
Smilax sp.
|
Pickle
|
Silam
|
|
Pickle
|
Vatamase
ko achar
|
Soybean
|
Pickle
|
Philinge
|
|
Pickle
|
Nakima
|
Tupistra
nutans
|
Vegetable
|
Momo
|
Wheat
flour/meat/vegetable
|
Steamed
dumpling; staple food
|
Thukpa
|
Wheat
noodle
|
Boiled,
mixed with minced meat
|
Shya
phaley
|
Wheat
flour-meat
|
Stiffed,
fried mixed with meat
|
Chempo
|
Pork/beef
|
Liver
cooked in sauce
|
Phituk
|
Rice/barley
flour
|
Porridge
with meat/chhurpi; staple
|
Phing
|
Vermicelli
|
Cooked
with mushroom, meat; soup
|
Khuri
|
Millet/buckwheat
flour
|
Roll
with meat and vegetable; snack
|
Phaktoo
|
Macaroni
|
Macaroni,
cooked with meat; soup
|
Nya
phachung
|
Fish
|
Fish
baked in bamboo; side dish
|
Zhero
|
Wheat
|
Deep
fried; snack
|
Khapjay
|
Wheat
|
Deep
fried; snack
|
Quasi
|
Wheat
flour
|
Deep
fried; cookies, snack
|
Kasalok
|
Sweet
potato/yam
|
Cooked
roots; staple
|
Sorongbee
tuluk
|
Rice
and nettle
|
Cooked
as porridge; staple
|
Cho-nyok
|
Rice,
butter, vegetable
|
Cooked
as porridge; staple
|