You know whether it’s Japanese food, Thai food, or any Oriental cuisine, they do have dumplings!
Right?
Whether it is dimsums or gyoza, or we do have one of our own dumplings, which we can call our own! Which came to use via Tibet, That is Momos. And I get a lot of requests on how to make good chicken momos! So here I will share a not only chicken momos recipe but also shares you some knowledge about it.
I traveled a lot in Ladakh for food and I realized that at least in Ladakh no one makes momos using only refined flour (all-purpose flour). That I think, is a very urban thing. Over there the momos are made with a combination of wheat flour and refined flour or of only wheat flour. So, I am going to do a mixture of refined flour and wheat flour.
This culture of dumplings, of stuffing things inside dough then steaming or frying them, this typically originates in China.
Right!
China has Jiaozi, from which may be the Japanese took “Gyoza”. Then at the bottom, there’s dimsum. And all this influenced Tibet to create there own rustic version of a dumpling.
Like it influenced the Mongolians to create the “Mantoo”. Which went all the way to Turkey to become “Manti”. So momos have been going on like that. But, “Wheat” was a difficult commodity to get, in Tibet. Which is why even today the old Tibetans who have come from Lhasa they say that they don’t make momos every day. It was only made during Losar or special days when they had enough wheat to make and time to celebrate. Otherwise, momos are not everyday food as we think they are.
You know, some people say that the origin of momos is from Nepal. It is not from Nepal but Nepal has definitely made momos famous. Momos originally are from Tibet. In Nepal, there are merchants called Newari. They live in Kathmandu. They used to trade a lot with Lhasa. So when they would go to Lhasa they would bring back a lot of things and they also picked up the technique of making momos. And even today momos are made in the house of Newari merchants. And it is said that they made momos famous in the world, at least made them famous in Nepal. That is the only conceivable, true history of momos, that you can make sense of.
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Thanks for sharing this recipe. Easy to understand and i will definitely try this.
This was really helpful as my daughter needed this recipe for her school project. Very very thank you.
It's really amazing that my recipe will help your daughter in a school project.