https://nepalesetaste.com/tags/tihar/Recent content in Tihar on Nepali TasteHugoen-usSat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://nepalesetaste.com/recipes/puri-tarkari/Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://nepalesetaste.com/recipes/puri-tarkari/<p>There are mornings in Nepal, Saturdays, Tihar, after a long pooja, when only one breakfast will do. <em>Puri tarkari</em>: golden orbs of puffed whole-wheat bread served alongside a hot, mustard-oil-perfumed potato curry, with maybe a small bowl of yogurt and a spoonful of pickle on the side. It is the breakfast every Nepali tea shop in Asan and Patan has been making the same way for generations, and it is the smell that drifts down the alleys on festival mornings.</p>https://nepalesetaste.com/recipes/sel-roti/Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://nepalesetaste.com/recipes/sel-roti/<p>If sel roti is being made in a Nepali kitchen, something is being celebrated. The ring-shaped fried bread, golden, lightly sweet, faintly perfumed with cardamom, is the unmistakable smell of Dashain and Tihar across Nepal. As children we would crowd around the wok watching my grandmother coax perfect circles out of thin batter with a single steady stream from her hand, the ring puffing and turning the colour of warm amber in seconds. She made it look like magic. It is not magic, it is practice, but it is also a small, generous miracle every time it works.</p>