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Pakistani dinner recipes

7 Pakistani dinner recipes, in a suggested order.

These are the 7 Pakistani recipes filed under dinner: 7 of the 2,108 dinners on the site, and 7 of its 10 Pakistani recipes. None of them is ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish. For 2, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 3 easy, 3 medium and 1 hard.

As written, 1 is vegetarian, 4 gluten-free and 2 dairy-free. Another 2 meet a diet label only with a swap the recipe names, and the recipe says which.

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Pakistani dinner recipes — all 7 recipes

Nihari
Pakistani
Prep
30m
Cook
240m
Serves
8
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Nihari

Beef shank stewed overnight in a spice-heavy gravy thickened with wheat flour, finished with ginger, chilli and…

4.5 hr · Medium
Haleem
Pakistani
Prep
45m
Cook
210m
Serves
8
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Haleem

Wheat, barley, lentils and meat cooked for hours and then pounded together until the whole pot becomes one smooth…

12.5 hr · Hard
Chapli Kebab
Pakistani
Prep
25m
Cook
15m
Serves
6
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Chapli Kebab

Flat Peshawari patties of coarse beef with tomato, pomegranate seed and coriander seed, shallow fried in beef fat…

100 min · Easy
Aloo Keema
Pakistani
Prep
15m
Cook
55m
Serves
4
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Aloo Keema

Minced lamb and potato cooked down together until the mince is dry and catching. A Pakistani weeknight standard.

70 min · Easy
Chicken Karahi
Pakistani
Prep
20m
Cook
35m
Serves
4
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Chicken Karahi

Chicken cooked hard in a wok with tomato, ginger and green chilli, and almost nothing else. No onion, no cream, no…

55 min · Medium
Lamb Karahi
Pakistani
Prep
20m
Cook
60m
Serves
4
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Lamb Karahi

Lamb pieces on the bone cooked in a wok-style pan with tomatoes, ginger, garlic and green chillies until the fat…

80 min · Medium
Pakistani Daal Chawal
Pakistani
Prep
10m
Cook
30m
Serves
4
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Pakistani Daal Chawal

Yellow lentils simmered with turmeric and tempered with garlic, cumin and chilli, served over plain steamed rice.

40 min · Easy