Long time ago, Kathmandu valley was all green with very little settlement. And most of the people were farmers working very hard day and night. The farmers were very diligent and loved what they do. But working during monsoon was little tough because of the weather. And to be able to plant rice at the right time, they had to work tirelessly, often even requiring help from other farmers from distant. One monsoon day, a farmer Baucha was waiting for his fellow farmers to finish rice planting. But none of them arrived. Being little annoyed and surprised, he went to their house on the evening. He asked them the reason behind their absence and mentioned that they would have finished the job as that was the last filed patch left. The fellow farmer begged apology and told that he was sick. Not just him, his wife and whole community is having cough and cold because of monsoon season and unavailability of nutritious food. Baucha was very sad and wanted to help them by feeding some nutritious food. All he could find on his store was nine kinds of bean that he had harvested. He soaked them and next day he cooked half of them and made hot soup. All had the soup , it really worked like a magic. Soon they started to work in paddy field. Next day, hearing the news, people from neighbouring village also requested Baucha to make such soup for them too as they were also feeling sick . Suddenly , yomari remembered about the half of the beans that he had soaked. They were already germinated. He then took the soup to village and fed all the villagers. Later, they gave the name “Kwati” to that soup meaning (Kwa: hot, ti: soup).
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