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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
Skyu

 

Directions

Preparing the soup

  1. 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.
  2. Then add salt and whole green chillies. Keep stirring for at least 10 minutes on medium heat.
  3. Add a teaspoon of red chilli powder. Now add the tomatoes. Cook the onion-tomato mixture for further 8 minutes.
  4. 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

  1. In the meantime, prepare the dough. Take the wheat flour and knead with water. The dough has to be hard not soft.
  2. After the dough is prepared, roll it into long thin tubes.
  3. Pinch off small nuggets of the dough and then flatten each with thumb to make cup-shaped pieces.

Cooking the Skyu

  1. Add water to the soup mixture depending on the desired consistency and let it cook for 12 minutes on low heat.
  2. After this mixture is cooked, add the paneer.
  3. Then add in all the dough pieces to the soup mixture and simmer for around 5 minutes.
  4. Finish off by adding the coriander.

Serve piping hot in a bowl with a smile.