Specialty foods are an indispensable part of the Tibetan people. Whenever you visit a Tibetan home or buy some special products, these are indispensable. They each have their own characteristics, and just the fragrance makes people covet them.
Snow lotus, matsutake, cordyceps, gastrodia elata, Fritillaria, walnuts, red potatoes, black fungus, drunken pears, ginseng fruit, yak, beef and mutton, saffron salt, fried highland barley, air-dried meat, blown lung, raw Beef sauce, ginseng fruit mixed with oil, Tibetan sheep blood sausage, steamed buns with milk residue, yogurt cakes, Lhasa snow tea, sweet tea, bara cakes, butter, butter tea, horseradish, cheese, Tibetan wine, etc.
Highland barley: Also known as barley, Yuanmai, and rice wheat, it is the main raw material for Tibetan people to make tsampa. After frying, highland barley is ground into noodles and eaten with butter tea. People also mix highland barley with peas. When combined to make tsampa, highland barley is relatively rich in nutrients. From the comparison of relevant data, it can be seen that the nutritional value of tsampa, the staple food of the Tibetan people, is not lower than that of other cereals, and some nutrients are even higher than other cereals. Made of highland barley Zanba is not only a traditional food of the Tibetan people, but also appears as a Tibetan meal in major restaurants in Lhasa, becoming an important food for entertaining foreign guests.
Ghee: It is an indispensable food in the lives of Tibetan people. It is a kind of crude butter, similar to mainland butter. It is a cream product extracted from cow milk and contains about 80-80% fat. 90. There is also a lot of vitamin A. Every two ounces of ghee can provide more than 400 calories of heat energy and 200 international units of vitamin A. Tibetan people mainly consume butter by making butter tea, and they also use it to make fried foods during festivals. The long-lasting lamps in Tibetan temples are also fueled by butter.
Beverages: Various beverages are indispensable components of nutritious food for the Tibetan people. Generally speaking, the main drinks of Tibetan people include butter tea, clear tea, sweet tea, fresh milk and highland barley wine. Among them, butter tea and clear tea are eaten at the same time as the staple food tsampa, and are also used as daily drinks. Butter tea and sweet tea are respectively made of butter, milk or milk powder, tea leaves, salt, and sugar. It can be seen that butter tea and sweet tea are nutritional products with the function of tea. From a nutritional point of view, butter can supplement heat energy and vitamin A. Sweet tea can also supplement protein and other nutrients.