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🇵🇰 Traditional dishes from Pakistan

3 dishes people actually cook in Pakistan: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.

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Chapli kebab

45 min · medium · 12 ingredients

Chapli kebab, a traditional dish from Pakistan

Savor the spicy, aromatic flavors of chapli kebab!

  • 500 g ground beef
  • 1 onion
  • 1 tomato
  • 30 g fresh coriander
  • 2 green chili
  • 1 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
  • 1 tsp cumin seeds
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp black pepper
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tbsp flour
  • 100 ml oil

Haleem

180 min · medium · 12 ingredients

Haleem, a traditional dish from Pakistan

Savor the rich, hearty flavors of traditional haleem.

  • 100 g wheat
  • 50 g barley
  • 50 g split yellow lentils
  • 50 g chickpeas
  • 300 g beef
  • 2 onions
  • 2 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
  • 2 green chilies
  • 1 tsp cumin seeds
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 4 tbsp oil
  • 1500 ml water

Nihari

480 min · hard · 10 ingredients

Nihari, a traditional dish from Pakistan

Savor the rich, slow-cooked flavors of nihari.

  • 1000 g beef shank
  • 2 onions
  • 30 g ginger
  • 30 g garlic
  • 50 g nihari spice mix
  • 2000 ml water
  • 100 g ghee
  • 1 tbsp salt
  • 2 green chili
  • 30 g cilantro

What do people eat in Pakistan?

The three dishes from Pakistan documented in Copper are Chapli kebab, Haleem and Nihari. Onion and cumin seeds each appear in more than one recipe. All three are fried. Not one needs an oven — they cook entirely on the hob. Between them they use 25 different ingredients.

What ingredients do you need for cooking from Pakistan?

The three recipes need 25 ingredients between them, of which 4 are shared by more than one dish. Cumin seeds and ginger-garlic paste are the hardest to find: of the 588 dishes in Copper's atlas, 9 use cumin seeds and 2 use ginger-garlic paste. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.

How long do recipes from Pakistan take?

Chapli kebab is the quickest at 45 minutes. Nihari is the longest at 480 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 180 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.

Which dish from Pakistan is easiest to make at home?

None of the dishes from Pakistan here is rated easy, but every one has the full method written out step by step, free to read. Chapli kebab is the shortest way in.

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