Chatamari

Name: Chatamari
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Newar
Ingredients: 300 g Rice flour; 500 ml Water for the batter; 300 g Minced chicken; 4 Eggs; 1 Onion, finely chopped; 4 cloves, 2 cm Garlic and ginger, minced; 2 Green chillies, sliced; 15 g Fresh coriander, chopped; 1 tsp Ground cumin; 1/2 tsp Timur (Sichuan pepper), ground; 3 tbsp Oil; 1.5 tsp Salt

A thin rice-flour crepe cooked in a covered pan with minced meat and an egg broken over the top — Newar feast food, and nothing like a pizza except in shape.

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Recette de Newar kitchens of the Kathmandu Valley · 🏺 Traditionnel · The Kathmandu Valley's own cuisine, older than the country's borders — feast food built around rice flour, buffalo and long lists of small dishes.

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Whisk the rice flour, water and 1/2 tsp salt into a batter the thickness of single cream. Rest it 20 minutes.
Fry the mince with the onion, garlic, ginger, cumin, timur and the rest of the salt until it is dry and browned, about 8 minutes. Stir in the coriander and chillies.
Oil a small non-stick pan lightly and set it over medium-low heat. Pour in a ladle of batter and tilt it into a thin round.
💡 Medium-LOW. Chatamari is never browned or crisp like a dosa — it should stay pale and soft, set through but bendy.
Scatter a quarter of the meat over it, break an egg on top and spread the yolk gently with the back of a spoon.
Cover the pan and cook 4 minutes, until the egg white is set and the base lifts cleanly. Do not turn it — chatamari is cooked on one side only.
Slide it onto a plate whole and cut it into wedges at the table. Repeat for the other three.

💡 Astuces

Newar households serve chatamari at Yomari Punhi and family feasts, usually as one of many small dishes rather than a plate of its own.
The batter is better made the night before. Rested overnight it spreads thinner and tears less.
Rice flour and rice flour only. Wheat makes a pancake; the point here is the soft, slightly grainy rice texture.