All-Women run Award Winning ALCHI Ladakhi Kitchen I Gurudwara Pathar Sahib Ji + Sangam + Chanthuk

On this leg of our Ladakh food tour, we began our food journey from Gurudwara Pathar Sahib where we paid our respect and had langar prasad. Then headed to Alchi village. Our destinations here were the oldest Alchi Monastery and the cozy Alchi Kitchen run by restaurateur and chef Nilza Wangmo. Alchi kitchen is an all-women-run Ladakhi restaurant that is a hit with tourists. Nilza and her team have been doing a phenomenal job of presenting Ladakhi flavors to visitors from different parts of the world.
Nilza Wangmo, recipient of the highest civilian honor for women in India - Nari Shakti Puraskar, has been promoting Ladakhi cuisine at her restaurant and on her many travels across India. At the restaurant, you will find popular Ladakhi dishes including khambir and paba, bow-tie pasta skew, chutage, thukpa, and tangtur.
When we arrived, it was a packed house and everyone in the kitchen was super busy. When we returned post-lunch, we could get some time to spend with Nilza. She started by preparing chhanthuk, a winter soup made of soaked barley and wheat grains. As the grains, legumes, and churpi simmered away on the stone vessel over a traditional clay oven, she served us chicken khambir. These succulent chicken-stuffed Ladakhi flatbread pockets were brilliant. Next, we had mutton gyathuk, a Tibetan-style noodle soup with tender mutton chunks.
Continuing with the tasting of the best of Ladakhi delicacies at the place dedicated to it, we then had the veg version of Yarkandi pulao. This is a butter-laden pulao that has fried onions, a few veggies, and onions in it.
Finally, we joined Nilza in the kitchen to complete the preparation of chhanthuk. The meat pieces were already added to it. For the last part, she basically uses a small quantity of apricot kernel oil cake, but since it was not available, she just gave a tempering of some whole spices in apricot oil.
The result was a robust yet flavorful gruel. We tried it with plain khambir. For dessert, we had kushu phemar, or a no-cooking sweet dish made of dried apple flour, barley flour, butter tea, and butter. All these were combined together to form a soft lump. The taste was simple yet phenomenal.
Throughout the meal, Nilza enlightened us with great details of Ladakhi cuisine, and it was truly a privilege to learn so much about the Ladakhi cuisine from here.
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[@Thebridalattire]

The best restaurant in Ladakh serves authentic local food and the best thing about this restaurant is all the workers are women which is an example how women can take things to next level…kudos to this lady who is doing a great job in uplifting and preserving the authenticity. Nice video 👍

[@rashmidattani3117]

Climate plays such a vital role in defining the food culture of a place, so much so, tht the regional cuisines are so distinct (be it preparation or preservation methods followed) due to the local weather conditions..... Further, it is the deep rooted love for whatever tht u really wish to do, is wht goes a long way :) For me, it was the drive to the sangam of the rivers, n the Langar Prasad of chane n puri ! Satnam Shri Waheguru🙏 Waheguruji da khalsa, Waheguruji di fateh🙏

[@hiteshmalani3928]

Best ever food you will get in Ladakh . Many local dishes and near by the Alchi monastery . Must visit Alchi Kitchen .

[@laxmipatwalniceepisode5579]

Local Ladakh food is very delicious and healthy, nice series

[@RANJANIKARTIK-nc5tw]

A very beautiful display of the magical ingredients and the variety of the food items. Thanks Anubhav.

[@zyzyzx3352]

Awesome Kitchen recipies., awesome episode. 🙏

[@pravajyapandey1149]

Watching this makes me want to save up and travel there as soon as possible. Thank you for bringing Ladakh's delicacies to us.

[@sudhirgupta2354]

Anubhav ji very nice video keep it up from Lucknow love your videos and you also have a great time U.P ❤❤❤

[@maheshdhaimode441]

Ladakhi food🍲 at restaurant🍴 was good👍👍👍

[@nareshkumar-ee6qe]

I can eat this kind of food every day looks so yummy and healthy

[@TUB2688]

*_1000साल बाद आपके channel पर आने का मौका मिला। 😅_*

[@manumehra929]

What an amazing episode, and above all what great hostess ❤

[@chiragkaplish]

Nice 👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

[@Sanjayphoto]

Must visit place if someone is in Ladakh.Thank you Anubhav and team for this wonderful episode. If any Delhi outlet address please 🎉🎉

[@Skumàr639-69ds]

Very niceeeeee episode

[@jethodahal3799]

Nice Vlog Sir 🙏🏽🙏

[@sabihahaq786]

Wonderful and truly amazing today's episode best of Ladakhi delights the episode was nicely presented, knowledgeable, informative, outstanding video bhaut umada, jabardast, shandaar I am watching this video just right now happy eating and happy viewings 👍👌👏❤😊😍🤩😃

[@ankurkothari7840]

Super vlog

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Nice video sir ❤❤👍

[@Mystery.manthe]

Nice video sir

[@Sharmmand]

❤❤

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Can anyone tell me the name of the music in this video?

[@rashmidattani3117]

😊

[@rewatinadanjangid6863]

Very nice sir ❤

[@nikhiliyer9371]

Which month did you travel?

[@ramantohana9047]

Hange same Punjabi style I really like it

[@rashmidattani3117]

Prasad.

[@shayannathsarma993]

Nice 👍

[@shoaibshaikh3399]

Vietnam

[@FaliciaSongbin]

Talking too long.... It makes the video boring