So instead of having dalbhaat I can only have the bhaat (rice) part of the meal. After I removed the lentils from my meals (and stopped getting hives), I started really enjoying Nepali food especially because it’s spicy, and I love spicy food! The flavors sometimes remind me of my mom’s Mexican food.
My homestay aamaa (mother) usually goes to the market every day to buy fresh vegetables for meals. First, she will cook the vegetables with spices and oil. She will then make the lentils into a soupy dish that goes over the rice. Lastly, she will make the rice. Sometimes when she makes roti, she will roll the dough and then make perfect circles and cook it in a pan.
I also eat a tandoori houses a lot. They are small restaurants that make naan (flatbread) and roti in a traditional tandoor oven. Tandoor ovens are made out of clay and surrounded by mud on the outside. They look like large jugs. Naan or roti gets slapped onto the side of the oven and then cooked to perfection. Butter naan with vegetable curry is one of my favorite meals on the weekend! What's your favorite meal?
Nepal grows a lot of its own food. Even around Kathmandu, the largest city in Nepal, rice is grown and harvested. Historically, the Kathmandu Valley had very rich soil for growing crops, which is one reason civilization flourished here. Today, the fertile soil continues to provide rice, fruits and other crops for the Nepali people.
