The Basket Cookbook
Recipes worth
a shared list.
5 dishes with every ingredient ready to drop straight into your household’s Basket. Browse, cook, and shop the same list together.
Chicken Momo
Nepal's defining street food: thin wheat wrappers pleated around spiced chicken and steamed until the skins turn glassy. Served with a tomato-sesame achar that matters as much as the dumpling.
Dal Bhat Tarkari
The everyday Nepali plate, eaten twice a day across the country: steamed rice, a thin lentil soup finished with a sizzling tempering, and whatever vegetable is in season.
Sel Roti
A crisp, faintly sweet rice ring fried to order at every Tihar and Dashain. The batter is ground rice, not flour, which is what gives it the chew under the crackle.
Yomari
A Newari steamed dumpling shaped like a fig, filled with molten chaku and sesame. Made for Yomari Punhi, the full moon that closes the rice harvest.
Thukpa
A Himalayan noodle soup that arrived from Tibet and settled in the hills: a clear, ginger-heavy broth, hand-pulled or dried noodles, and whatever meat and greens the kitchen has.