Tibetan cuisine
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Tibetan cuisine includes the culinary traditions and practices of the Tibetan people in the Tibet region. The cuisine reflects the Tibetan landscape of mountains and plateaus and includes influences f
A simple Tibetan breakfast
Tibetan bowls and spoons, Field Museum
Tibetan snack Sha Phaley in Nepal
Tibetan kitchen items including a small butter churn with shoulder strap, suitable for nomadic life, cooking pot, bowls, and spoons
Tsampa
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Tsampa or tsamba is a Tibetan and Himalayan staple foodstuff; it is also prominent in parts of northern Nepal. It is a glutinous meal made from roasted flour, usually barley flour and sometimes also w
Tibetan cuisine
…enough altitude to grow crops such as rice, oranges, bananas and lemons. The most important crop is barley. Flour milled from roasted barley, called tsampa, is the staple food of Tibet, as well as sha phaley (meat and cabbage in bread). Balep is Tibetan bread eaten for breakfast and lunch. Various other…
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A bowl of unprepared tsampa, served on the table of a Tibetan restaurant in Chengdu, China.
A bowl of tsampa in the process of having butter tea blended in to produce tsampa dumplings or porridge.