Ladakhi skyu

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Region: South Asia deep cuts
Era: Not dated yet
Fold: Heap of small pieces
Cooked: Simmered with root vegetables, mutton, dried greens

Dough: Wheat doughUnfilled; thumb-pressed "ear" pieces
Made with: Wheat or barley dough
Cooked: Simmered with root vegetables, mutton, dried greens
Served: Oma-skyu is finished with milk. Winter staple
Size: About 6 cm across
Note: A borderline case: it stretches the definition of a dumpling.

Not known yet We don’t yet have a photo we can use, a written story, a recipe, a date for its first record or a dated or primary source for Ladakhi skyu. What we do have is below, with its sources.

Where

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From Ladakh, including Hanu and Zanskar.

Pin · Ladakh (Leh)

OriginLeh (status disputed) · Ladakh (Kashmir dispute) · Ladakhi

Evidence

Reasonably sure. Reference works agree, but we have not yet found a dated or primary source.

The grade comes from the project's source report and has not yet been checked source by source. How grading works.

First record Described by Kunzes Angmo, The Better India, 14 Apr 2022 (S; publication-only date)

Notes from the research

Described by Ladakhi writer Kunzes Angmo (The Better India).

This entry is drawn from the World Dumpling Atlas, §8.2, the project's source report. Its grade, S secondary consensus, says how far that has been checked against a primary source.

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