Healthy food in Nepal
Name: YOMARI
Yomari is a typical type of newari food.It is prepared in the festival "Dhanya Purnima" that
falls in mangsir.It is a very sweet dish that has chaku (sweet brown colored dish) and sesame
in the interior part which is covered by rice flour. It is prepared in the same way as we
prepare momo. It is also made in the occasions like birthday, janku (celebration in which
people of 84 years old are worshipped) etc.
Name:BARA
Bara is a distinctive Newari food which is round in shape and is a vegetarian food. But nowadays
people have made it a non-vegetarian food as well. Various species like salt, turmeric, ginger,
grinded pulse etc are added for its preparation. During a festival "Kumar Sasthi", they prepare
six types of Bara made from pulses of gram, lentil, peas, mugi, rahar and mas (various types
of pulse).
Name:LAKHAMARI
It is a sweet Newari dish which is circular in shape. It is prepared by mixing sugar in wheat
flour and frying in ghee. It is compulsorily needed when one gets married.