A Bite of Shigatse：Pea Jelly

Tibet is a perfect getaway for both nature enthusiasts and food aficionados. It is a wonderful region for gourmets who love special food. No matter you are on the streets of downtown Shigatse or at the entrance of Tashilhunpo Monastery, you will see a scene that some Tibetan ladies are carrying large aluminum pots, and a group of people are gathering around her. They are selling a traditional Tibet food called “pengbi” in Tibet language, a kind of Jelly made of pea .Explore Tibet Team, a professional Tibet travel agency, today introduce this typical food to you.

“Pengbi” is a kind of pea jelly with Tibetan flavor. The Tibetan pea jelly name “Pengbi” has the same pronunciation with the words “friend” and “must” in Chinese. So for Tibetans, “pengbi” is a must-eat food when their good friends come to visit, and it is a wonderful dish for they entertain guests.
In order to make this dish, firstly, Tibetans will make bean starch vermicelli, and bean starch vermicelli is extracted from the pea juice. So how to make pea juice? Ground the peas into powders, and then add water into it to make juicy. Then will wait for the sedimentation. The supernatant of sedimentation can be used to feed stocks, while the thick juice in the middle is something we need for making “pengbi”. Then it will be boiled until pea juice turns into paste. At this time, some spices such as salt, Tibetan scallion, curry powder and boiled oil and minced meat can be added into the juice and these things will mix together to form pea jelly.
Tibetan people, especially for some Shigatse people, the jellies with hot chili are so much loved by them，because the spicy flavor can satisfy both their hunger and their appetite. Comes and experience this magical world of culture with Explore Tibet Team.