The delicacy of the Newar community of Nepal, Yamari is a steam sweet dumpling made with an external covering of rice flour dough with a sweet filling Chaku ( concentrated jaggery mix with ghee, dry nuts, coconuts).
Preparation
Let's start out with ingredients (to make 15 Yomari)
- Rice flour- 500 grams
- Chaku (Molasses)-100 grams
- Sesame seed Powder – 50 gram
- Coconut powder/ grated coconut-20 grams
- Cardamom powder- 5 grams
- Vegetable oil- 10 gram
- Heat a cup of water and Chaku in the pan at medium heat.
- When Chaku melts, add sesame powder, coconut powder and cardamom powder and stir it gently.
- Add about a spoon full of rice flour and stir it gently.
- When the paste is good (not too thick or too thin) pour it into a bowl.
- Make the dough for Yomari using rice flour and Luke warm water.
- Make a soft dough (dough should be soft because if the dough is hard the Yomari will break).
- When the dough is ready cover it with a soft piece of cloth and rests it for about half an hour.
- After half an hour, grease your palm with cooking oil so that the dough will not stick to your hand.
- Take a small piece of dough and make it first into a round then into a long Yomari shape
- Make as thin as you can because more thin your wrap is tastier Yomari becomes
- Add two teaspoons of Chaku into the wrap and slowly close the Yomori top.
- You should keep on roiling the Yomari while closing the top.
- Heat the water in the steamer. When water boils, put Yomari in the steamer and let it steam for about 10 minutes.
Enjoy!
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