Dishes here
ThukpaTibetan noodle soup with vegetables or meat, ideal on a cold evening after a walk. Have it in a small family kitchen.MomosTibetan steamed dumplings stuffed with meat or vegetables. Look for places that steam them to order.SidduA steamed wheat bun stuffed with walnuts, green chilli and coriander, eaten with ghee, clarified butter. Vendors sell it around Mall Road.Butter teaSalted tea churned with butter, closer to a thin soup than a drink. You'll be offered it in homes and monasteries.ThenthukTibetan soup with flat, hand-pulled noodles, thicker than thukpa. Some kitchens here also fry it.Aloo puriPuffed fried bread with potato curry, a plain and filling pilgrim's meal. Have it at a thali shop (a set plate of small dishes) near Har Ki Pauri.JalebiCrisp spirals of fried batter soaked in sugar syrup. Eat them hot from a stall on Upper Road, right after your kachori.Kachori sabziFried stuffed bread with spiced potato curry. This is the Haridwar breakfast, so go early because popular stalls can sell out by mid-morning.Bal mithaiA brown fudge of roasted milk solids rolled in small white sugar balls, from Almora in Kumaon. Buy a box as you pass through.Madua rotiFlatbread of finger millet, darker and denser than wheat. It usually comes with a Kumaoni thali, a set plate.TsampaRoasted barley flour, the old Ladakhi staple, mixed into butter tea. Try it once, in a guesthouse if you can.Israeli platterHummus, falafel and pita, the plate Kasol's cafes are built around. Share one at lunch.ShakshukaEggs poached in spiced tomato sauce, an Israeli breakfast that's now a Kasol habit. Order it with bread.Chhole lucchiChickpea curry with thin fried bread. In Shimla this is a daytime snack from Lakkar Bazaar, the old market above The Mall.Langar khichdiRice and lentils cooked soft, served free with tea at the Ghangaria gurdwara's langar, its community kitchen. Cover your head and take your shoes off.