Nepal
Photo: Raunak Maskay, CC BY-SA 4.0, croppedYomari
यःमरि
/jəmari/YOH-mah-ree
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- Taste
- Sweet
- Made with
- Rice
History
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. It belongs to the Newar people of the Kathmandu Valley and is made for Yomari Punhi, a full-moon festival in December that celebrates the end of the rice harvest. A legend says a couple in Panauti made the first yomari and shared it with the god of wealth, Kubera, who blessed them. Children go from house to house singing songs and receiving yomari. It is also made for children's birthdays as a wish for good luck.
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