Nadir Monji

Nadir Monji is  a mouth watering snack taken with kehwa or any other tea. It is mostly prepared on occasions like yagnopaveet, marriages, kahnether or if you have leisure time and ingredients available at home. Following steps are required to prepare this snack.

Tomul Chott

In Kashmir, tomul chott, was considered as one of the important portions of our meal especially the people living in villages and small towns who owned their own land (landlords). On festivals like Shivratri, Doony Mavas, it has a great importance.

Loochi

Remember those days when we used to go to Tulmul on Jeshth Ashtami Mela, after offering bhog to Mata, most of the devotees used to buy loochi as prasad for home and neighbours, some people used to enjoy these with kehwa there only. Yesterday, when it was raining, I decided to prepare loochi. I started collecting the ingredients but there was no maida at home so I decided to use normal flour in place of maida. Follow the following steps if you also want to prepare loochi and refresh your old memories. If you want them delicious and authentic, use maida only. 

Chhir Chot

Chhir chot is a very famous tea time snack and is easy to prepare.

Drann, Rice flour- snacks.

Drann is a type of snack prepared with rice flour.  It is usually prepared on Maha Shivratri as bhog along with other vyanjans and distributed among friends and relatives along with prasad. It is very good in taste and eaten with tea (especially with kehwa).

Yaji

Yaji is a renowned kashmiri snack made from rice flour.  It has a great significance in our religion. Yaji are prepared on vahrath.  On this day people take a bath using green amaranth leaves in place of soap,offer yaji to God as bhog. Then this prasad is eaten with a belief that stomach related all problems will be eradicated. This snack is very easy to prepare. Follow these simple steps if you are interested to enjoy your cup of tea with this snack.