How to cook momos

I fell in love with momos in 1993 when I savoured them for the first time at a small eatery in a Tibetan settlement in Kolkata. Both of us just love momos and spare no opportunity to eat them whenever and wherever we get one. In recent years, momos have grown in popularity as a street food in all regions of India.

Momos are dumplings native to Tibet and neighbouring regions of Nepal and Ladakh. Traditionally, in Tibet momos are made with minced yak meat.  So, if you ever happen to travel to Tibet or Ladakh (in India) then dont miss the yak momos.

Outside the Himalayas where you don’t get yak meat just any other meat will do (chicken, turkey, pork, goat meat, sheep meat, beef etc). If you are not meat eater just replace the meat with minced up vegetables (mushroom, carrots, cabbage, tofu or paneer).

Please checkout the video for the way we made it. The super-cool part of the video is watching my wife wrapping up the momos like a pro.

The interesting part of eating momos is the momo sauce. In Tibet, Nepal and India it is made with tomato, chilli pepper and spices. You can find lots of momo sauce recipes on the web by binging them up (love Bing more than Google because few of our posts turn up on the first page of Bing).

In US, we discovered this Chili Garlic sauce from Huy Fong Foods. We created our own momo sauce by mixing it with equal amount of tomato ketchup and it goes so good with the momos that there is no need to make momo sauce from scratch the traditional way.

Another great variation of momos is instead of steaming, just deep fry them golden and they will taste extremely delicious.

(Fried momos picture shown here is a download from web found using Bing search)
 

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  1. On April 27, 2010 at 3:22 am Subhajeet said:

    Dada.. awesome looking… though couldnt see the video.. good going.. like it this way.. yummy.. i want it all…

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  2. On April 27, 2010 at 3:48 pm Avinash said:

    Lipsmacking !

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  3. On May 3, 2010 at 12:34 am foodtable said:

    Yum! I love dumplings! You are good at cooking…that looks amazing, like the ones in the restaurant!

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  4. On May 10, 2010 at 4:42 pm shas said:

    Hello,
    i always wanted to make steamed moms.I got very excited to see your post, but unfortunately the video is getting stuck after few seconds :(, same in youtube. can you check it please.

    Cheers ..

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  5. On May 19, 2010 at 6:49 am Anonymous said:

    GREAT SUMU, blog shows how you enjoy the food and best part is u like to share it with everybody. Today I learned to prepare momo and honnestly I m going to try it at home…

    Reply
  6. On July 5, 2011 at 12:09 pm Anonymous said:

    this is a rubbish becoz u dont know how a men learn a new sub.

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  7. On May 15, 2012 at 1:06 am ash kanu uniyal said:

    momoss to sssooooooooooooo testy bt beach beach mai jo buffing hoti hai youtube mai it is nt god do something youtube

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  8. On July 4, 2012 at 7:21 am Anonymous said:

    I LOVE TO HAVE IT

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  9. On March 1, 2013 at 6:20 am suzanee said:

    Wow I love momos it’s veryyyyyyyy testy
    who wants momos ?

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  10. On May 13, 2014 at 5:35 am feels video said:

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