Punjabi · Everyday
Aloo Gosht
Lamb and potato salan. The most-cooked dish in the country and the least written down.
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Salan, korma and everything cooked in a pot for a long time. The centre of a Pakistani table.
Punjabi · Everyday
Achar Gosht
The same base as aloo gosht, redirected entirely by pickling spice.
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Punjabi · Sunday
Chicken Karahi
The white, dhaba-style karahi. No cream, no food colour, no apology.
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Punjabi · Sunday
Karhi Pakora
The yogurt-and-besan curry — not to be confused with karahi, which is a different dish entirely.
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Muhajir · Winter
Nihari
Six hours, shank and marrow, and an honest account of the Delhi-to-Karachi lineage.
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Muhajir · Wedding
Korma, wedding-style
Brown onion base, tempered yogurt, and the highest stakes in the household repertoire.
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Punjabi · Winter
Sarson ka Saag
The slow method. Every shortcut version tastes like grass.
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Punjabi · Everyday
Bhindi Gosht, dry
Okra cooked dry, and a straight answer to why yours went slimy.
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General · Everyday
Masoor Daal
The everyday daal, and the doctrine page on tarka that half the archive links back to.
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Sindhi · Everyday
Sai Bhaji
Greens cooked down with daal. One of the best everyday dishes in the country.
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Pashtun · Occasion
Namkeen Gosht
Meat, fat, salt, time. Almost nothing else, and that restraint is the dish.
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Kashmiri · Winter
Kashmiri Harissa
Pounded overnight, eaten at dawn, and genuinely disappearing.
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Bohri · Occasion
Bohri Smoked Keema
Dhungar — a burning coal set under the lid — over a thaal tradition.
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Balochi · Occasion
Balochi Sajji
Whole salted lamb, slow-turned. Balochistan is the biggest blank space in Pakistani food writing.
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