How to pronounce Lakhamari

Lakhamari is written लाखामरी where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /lakʰamʌri/. In plain English letters that is LAH-kha-ma-ree, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Lakhamari?

Lakhamari is a dessert of Nepal. Where it comes from: Bagmati. People usually eat it on festive days and as a snack. Its main ingredients are rice and beans & tofu. It tastes sweet.

Where Lakhamari comes from

Lakhamari is one of 15 signature dishes of Nepal on this map. See all dishes from Bagmati Zone.

• Momo म:म: · Street food · Kathmandu Valley

  Momo are dumplings of thin wheat dough filled with minced buffalo, chicken, pork or vegetables, spiced with onion, garlic, ginger and coriander, and usually steamed.

• Yomari यःमरि · Dessert · Newar towns (Bhaktapur)

  Yomari is a steamed dumpling of rice flour shaped like a fig or a fish, filled with chaku, molasses, and sesame seeds, or with sweet milk solids.

• Chatamari चटामरी · Street food · Bagmati

  Chatamari, in Newar chatānmari, is a thin rice-flour crepe from the Newar cooking of the Kathmandu Valley.

• Choila छोयला · Main dish · Bagmati

  Choila, also chhwela or chhoyela, is a Newar dish of spiced, grilled buffalo meat, eaten with chiura, beaten rice, and usually very hot.

• Samay baji समय बजी · Main dish · Bagmati

  Samay baji is a traditional Newar set of foods arranged around baji, beaten rice: roasted meat such as choila, vegetables, black-eyed beans, roasted soybeans and slivers of ginger.

• Kwati क्वाँटी · Soup & stew · Bagmati

  Kwati, from the Newar kwā, "hot", and tī, "soup", is a thick soup of nine kinds of sprouted beans.

Food of Nepal

Dishes like Lakhamari in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Lakhamari:

• Zenggao 甑糕 · Dessert · Guanzhong (Shaanxi), China

  Zenggao is a sweet steamed cake of glutinous rice and red jujube dates from the Guanzhong area of Shaanxi, around Xi'an.

• Kralan ក្រឡាន · Dessert · Cambodia

  Kralan is the Cambodian version of sticky rice roasted in bamboo.

• Omegi-tteok 오메기떡 · Dessert · Jeju, South Korea

  Omegi-tteok is a rice cake found only on Jeju Island.

• Yatsuhashi 八ツ橋 · Dessert · Kyoto, Japan

  Yatsuhashi is one of the best-known sweets of Kyoto and a classic souvenir from the city.