Appetizers
Seekh Kebab
Spiced minced lamb moulded onto skewers and cooked over coals, kept juicy by fat, papaya paste and a rest in the…
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Slow-cooked meat, charcoal smoke and heavy spicing. 10 Pakistani recipes, from the everyday to the ambitious.
The 10 recipes cover 3 of the site’s categories, among them 7 dinners, 2 appetisers and small plates and 1 breakfast. None of them is ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish. For 5, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 4 easy, 4 medium and 2 hard.
As written, 2 are vegetarian, 4 gluten-free and 4 dairy-free. Another 3 meet a diet label only with a swap the recipe names, and the recipe says which.
Pakistani recipes — all 10 recipes
Dinner
Nihari
Beef shank stewed overnight in a spice-heavy gravy thickened with wheat flour, finished with ginger, chilli and…
Dinner
Haleem
Wheat, barley, lentils and meat cooked for hours and then pounded together until the whole pot becomes one smooth…
Dinner
Chapli Kebab
Flat Peshawari patties of coarse beef with tomato, pomegranate seed and coriander seed, shallow fried in beef fat…
Dinner
Chicken Karahi
Chicken cooked hard in a wok with tomato, ginger and green chilli, and almost nothing else. No onion, no cream, no…
Dinner
Aloo Keema
Minced lamb and potato cooked down together until the mince is dry and catching. A Pakistani weeknight standard.
Breakfast
Halwa Puri
The Pakistani weekend breakfast: puffed fried bread, a golden semolina halwa and a spiced chickpea curry. Sweet…
Dinner
Pakistani Daal Chawal
Yellow lentils simmered with turmeric and tempered with garlic, cumin and chilli, served over plain steamed rice.
Dinner
Lamb Karahi
Lamb pieces on the bone cooked in a wok-style pan with tomatoes, ginger, garlic and green chillies until the fat…
Appetizers
Gola Kabab
Round, juicy patties of minced beef mixed with ginger, garlic, green chilli, gram flour and garam masala, cooked in…