Nepal's national dish, momos.
Traditionally, they're savoury, but this area is known for apples.
That's what I'm filling them with, topped with a saffron caramel sauce.
I borrowed this contraption from the guesthouse
that Vidya's family run. This is not bad!
It's all happening very quickly.
Vidya's family also gave me these apples from last year's crop.
They are the sweetest children.
They're so... Oh, dear.
I'm getting weak now, there's too many apples.
So, I'm going to add some ghee, some cinnamon -
hopefully, it won't get blown away.
OK, at least half of it got blown away.
Lots and lots of brown sugar,
Zest of a couple of lemons, and it's ready to be cooked down.
I'm making a dough with oil, flour and water that requires kneading.
Not an easy job when you're feeding 30.
That's a lot of dough!
I heard "Nadiya" - what did he ask?
He's asking, what are you cooking?
What are you making?
I'm making momos!
I reckon these kids have eaten a momo or two in their life.
So, if anyone's going to be critical, it's them.
My dough is ready and it's lovely and smooth and stretchy,
so I'm going to leave that, let that rest,
and then I'm going to make my saffron caramel.
I'm using ghee, brown sugar and milk, and adding saffron
to scent the sauce.
Saffron's got this kind of earthy fragrance,
which is really lovely in caramel,
which I'm hoping that my sophisticated five-year-olds
will appreciate.
It's momo-constructing time.
Classically, they're closed, but I'm making mine open.
I quite like an open momo because they're really pretty on top
and I like the fact there's a little bit less dough
and you can see the filling.
Momos are supposed to have come to Nepal from Tibet,
where many people in Marpha also come from.
So I'd better get these right.
I've added some nuts to give the filling a bit of a crunch.
This is the bit where you work out
whether you've got too much filling or not.
If you have too much filling, it just bursts
and you can't close it
so you have to start again.
But this one seems all right.
Mix! Mix! Mix! Mix!
I'm going to steam those for ten minutes.
That means they're hungry.
What kind of momos?
Do you like apple momo?
Oh! Apple momo!
Apple momo?
No, we haven't had.
Nanu is sprinkling biscuit crumbs on top for crunch.
Nanu, what did he say?
He wants to have one more.
Oh, he wants to have one more!
Nadiya, one more, please!
One more, please?
One more, please! Lots of one mores.
One more? One more, please.
Very good!
I didn't expect them to ask for seconds. Really?
No!
They like it.
Most of them, it's their first time having apple momos and they love it.