TRADITIONAL FERMENTED FOODS AND BEVERAGES OF THE SIKKIM HIMALAYAS

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


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