Pair kwati with some goat meat this Kwati Punhi

In Newa households, sometimes bone-in buffalo meat or even momo are added in kwati. Some of Kathmandu’s non-Newas cook the kwati with goat meat.

After a couple of months of arduous work on paddy fields, Kathmandu’s farmers nourish their body by consuming mixed sprouted legumes soup called ‘Kwati’ on the full moon festival ‘Kwati Punhi' or ‘Gunhu Punhi’. Newas celebrate the festival towards the end of monsoon. Also known as Janai Purnima, Hindus celebrate the day by tying a sacred thread around their body and wrist.