Phitti Recipes

Hunza's ancient breakfast — dry-roasted buckwheat flour mixed with apricot oil and salt into a thick porridge. Eaten before the day's farm work in the Karakoram mountains. One of the oldest foods in Gilgit-Baltistan, unchanged for 500 years.

Hunza's ancient breakfast — dry-roasted buckwheat flour mixed with apricot oil and salt into a thick porridge. Eaten before the day's farm work in the Karakoram mountains. One of the oldest foods in Gilgit-Baltistan, unchanged for 500 years.

Phitti — Hunza Buckwheat Breakfast

Phitti — Hunza Buckwheat Breakfast

Gilgit-Baltistan

A traditional Hunza buckwheat preparation — dry-roasted flour mixed with apricot oil and salt, served with dried apricots and walnuts. Note: the canonical Phitti is also made as a sourdough wheat bread; this is the buckwheat breakfast variant eaten in Hunza households. Both are authentic to Gilgit-Baltistan.

15m easy

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