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Chhurpi (Tibetan: ཆུར་བ།, THL: churwa), otherwise known as durkha and chogo/chugo, is a traditional cheese consumed in Nepal, Bhutan and parts of Northeastern India. [1] [2] The two varieties of chhurpi are a soft variety (consumed usually as a side dish with rice) [3] and a very hard variety. Chhurpi is considered one of the ...
Flower of Rajya is a firm yak's-milk cheese made in Nepal by Tibetan nomads in collaboration with the Trace Foundation. Milk is heated and ripened in big copper vats, curdled, drained and molded into 10–12 lb (4.5–5.4 kg) wheels. The cheese is dry-cured in Tibetan red salt, aged, then wrapped in scarves and packed in bamboo baskets.
Hard chhurpi cheese made from yak milk. Very few Thakali own their own yaks, so butter made from the yak milk is usually purchased at the market, along with other staples like rice, tea, lentils, sugar and spices. After butter is produced, a hard cheese called chhurpi is made with the buttermilk. [10] Thakali cuisine is less vegetarian than ...
Other non-food uses include fueling yak-butter lamps, [8] moisturizing skin, [1] and the traditional butter sculptures for Tibetan New Year. [9] Such yak-butter sculptures may reach nearly 10 meters in height. [10] In Nepal, particularly in Kathmandu, yak cheese and yak butter are produced in factories and sold commercially. During 1997–1998 ...
The cuisine reflects the Tibetan landscape of mountains and plateaus and includes influences from neighbors (including India and Nepal where many Tibetans abide). It is known for its use of noodles, goat, yak, mutton, dumplings, cheese (often from yak or goat milk), butter, yogurt (also from animals adapted to the Tibetan climate), and soups.
At a yak farm close to the Nepal base camp for Mount Everest, “everything is shaking” and the employees were “very scared,” he said. Nepali police said 13 injured people had been rescued ...
A firm yak's-milk cheese made in Nepal by Tibetan nomads in collaboration with the Trace Foundation. Milk is heated and ripened in big copper vats, curdled, drained and molded into 10–12 pound wheels. The cheese is dry-cured in Tibetan red salt, aged, then wrapped in scarves and packed in bamboo baskets. Chhurpi
The yak (Bos grunniens), also known as the Tartary ox, grunting ox, [1] hairy cattle, [2] or domestic yak, is a species of long-haired domesticated cattle found throughout the Himalayan region of Gilgit-Baltistan (Kashmir, Pakistan), Nepal, Sikkim (), the Tibetan Plateau (), Tajikistan Pamir mountains Afghanistan and as far north as Mongolia and Siberia.