DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Chatamari
Rice-flour pancakes served with vegetable curry and a seasoned sesame dip.
About Chatamari
The Nepal Tourism Board's heritage cookbook presents chatamari as a rice-flour pancake with a name from the Newari language. Rice flour and warm water form a smooth batter, spread over a greased iron pan.
The pancake cooks beneath a lid. Vegetable curry and tilko chhop accompany it; the sesame dip combines roasted sesame, chilli, chuk and timmur with a mustard-oil seasoning.
Capsicum, fenugreek and turmeric finish the dip. An egg topping is an offered variation, while the plain pancake remains the centre of the plate.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Sesame, Mustard.
Optional additions: Egg.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Chatamari
Nepal Tourism Board's plain chatamari with sesame dip.
- Rice flourBase
- WaterLiquid
- Cooking oilCooking mediumIngredient page not linked
- Sesame seedsBase
- Timmur powderSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- SaltSeasoning
- ChukSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- Chilli powderSeasoning
- Mustard oilCooking medium
- CapsicumBase
- Fenugreek seedsSeasoning
- Turmeric powderSeasoning
- Prepared vegetable curryAccompanimentIngredient page not linked
- EggTopping · Optional
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Rice flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual pancake warm batter water and wet sesame dip water, consolidated.
- Cooking oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual pancake pan-greasing oil, unknown species, separate from explicit mustard oil in dip.
- Sesame seeds: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Sesame source-confirmed. Actual full same-book Tilko Chhop roasted and ground sesame.
- Timmur powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual dip literal Timmur, exact botanical species and registry identity unresolved.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual dip ingredient; not invented in salt-free literal pancake list.
- Chuk: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual dip named chuk, exact prepared citrus identity/formula unprovided; not forced vinegar or lemonjuice.
- Chilli powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Mustard oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Mustard source-confirmed. Actual dip named mustard oil for tempering, Mustard positive.
- Capsicum: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual dip capsicum, broader bell-pepper mapping, colour unknown.
- Fenugreek seeds: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Turmeric powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Prepared vegetable curry: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual pancake step5 curry-based vegetable choice over meat, species/full formula unknown. No exact own full curry linked; another unrelated meal not substituted.
- Egg (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed. Actual pancake note offers egg topping; selected single optional topping over separate cheese/meat/vegetable variants.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Nepal
- NepalCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Newari Cuisine
- Newar CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.