Skyu
Skyu is a wholesome traditional soup-based dish of Ladakh. Wheat dough is made into pasta-like shapes and cooked in a soupy mixture of vegetables. At times meat is also added to the dish. This soupy delicacy can be served along with Momos and is mostly enjoyed during the winters.
Cuisine: | Ladakhi |
Total time: | 1 hour 45 minutes |
Preparation time: | 45 mins |
Cooking time: | 1 hour |
Serves: | 4 |
Ingredients
For soup
3: | Tomatoes |
2: | Onions (thinly sliced) |
250 gms: | Peas |
4: | Onion shoots (sliced) |
3: | Small potatoes (halved) |
1 inch: | Ginger |
2: | Green chillies |
1 teaspoon: | Red chilli powder |
1 litre: | Water |
300 gms: | Paneer or cow milk cottage cheese (cut into cubes) |
4 tablespoons: | Mustard oil |
Salt, as required
Dried coriander, as required
For dough
3 cups: | Wheat flour |
1 cup: | Water |

Directions
Preparing the soup
- First heat mustard oil in a pot. Once the smoking point has reached for the oil, put in the ginger pieces, followed by the onions. Stir the onions till they are browned.
- Then add salt and whole green chillies. Keep stirring for at least 10 minutes on medium heat.
- Add a teaspoon of red chilli powder. Now add the tomatoes. Cook the onion-tomato mixture for further 8 minutes.
- Put in the halved potatoes next, and the onion shoots and the peas. Stir the mixture and cover the utensil with a lid and allow to cook for 10 minutes over a low flame.
Preparing the dough
- In the meantime, prepare the dough. Take the wheat flour and knead with water. The dough has to be hard not soft.
- After the dough is prepared, roll it into long thin tubes.
- Pinch off small nuggets of the dough and then flatten each with thumb to make cup-shaped pieces.
Cooking the Skyu
- Add water to the soup mixture depending on the desired consistency and let it cook for 12 minutes on low heat.
- After this mixture is cooked, add the paneer.
- Then add in all the dough pieces to the soup mixture and simmer for around 5 minutes.
- Finish off by adding the coriander.
Serve piping hot in a bowl with a smile.