What can I eat in Ladakh?What can I do in Ladakh?Good to know....

    When we talk about Ladakh we have imagine aquamarine lakes,jaw dropping landscapes of craggy mountains and snow capped peaks will steal your heart making you to add it to your bucket list. How is Ladakhi food is it soup and noodles?
  Ladakhi  diet is rich in carbs, dairy and red meat defines the traditional Ladakhi cuisine. Rather than just dishes, it’s the grains and greens that define Ladakhi cuisine. Being the only Indian region that falls in the Trans-Himalayan belt, Ladakhi food can be referred to as the “cuisine of the Karakoram”. Therefore it is a diet of sgnamphey (roasted barley flour), wheat (including indigenous varieties of wheat like toh kahr (or white wheat) and drao-phey (buckwheat) that grow in high-altitude desert regions that form the bedrock of every traditional meal in dishes like kholak and paba (made of barley flour), khambir (local sourdough flatbread), skyu (thumbprint pasta dish) and chhutagi (bowtie kind of pasta dish) that are freshly made using wheat and kisir/drakphey dten dten (buckwheat crepes native to Turtuk and Sham region respectively).
       Unlike the cuisine prevalent in most regions of the subcontinent, traditional Ladakhi cuisine does not use turmeric, red chilli powder, garam masala or any other masala except for black pepper and local herbs. Turmeric was traditionally used in medicine but not in cuisine and the chilli used to spice up local dishes is the yellow Himalayan chilli called thangnyer. Tumburuk (summer savoury), tsamik (Moldavian dragonhead), kaliyaan (opal basil), chin-tse (Chinese celery), oosu (cilantro), phololing (horsemint), skotse (used for both wild onion and garlic chives), konsyot (wild caraway) are some of the other Ladakhi herbs that are both cultivated and foraged sustainably.
       Cha or tea is another defining element of Ladakhi cuisine that finds a common thread across the entire Trans-Himalayan belt bordering India. Don’t expect masala chai at a local’s home, but butter tea and its black/green tea variant. In terms of alcoholic drinks, there’s chhang, a fermented local barley beer and arak, a distilled liquor and gunchangm a grape wine native to the Drokpa tribe.
      We will visit Ladakh to witness apricot blossoms 🌸. Join us for a week.  Make wonderful memories. If you like, you may enjoy Ladakhi food that the locals have . Leh arrival date would be 13/4/2023. Now plan well in advance and have one of the most beautiful pink week us. Leave all worries to us. Simply enjoy. 


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