Tag Archives: Beef

Bihari Kabab

Bihari kabab is one of the famous and delicious Pakistani dishes…. You can find this in Food Street, Lahore and many other places and believe me its so spicy and yummy that it will make your day …

Ayesha's Kitchen

Ingredients:

  • 1 kg boneless beef strips or chicken (breast strips)
  • Some olive oil to glaze the pan
  • 1 cup raw papaya paste (green papaya paste)(with skin)
  • 1 ½ cup fried onions
  • 1 tbspns ginger garlic paste
  • 1 cup plain yogurt
  • ¼ cup vinegar

SPICES

  • 2 tbspns coriander powder
  • 2 tbspns red chilli powder
  • 1 tspn paprika
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 tspn red chilli flakes
  • Some carom seeds
  • 2 bay leaves (powder form preferred)
  • 1 tspn black cumin
  • 1 tspn cumin powder
  • 1 cardamom black (crushed)
  • 1 green cardamom (crushed)
  • ½ tspn garam masala

FOR GARNISHING

  • 2 green chillies sliced
  • Some coriander chopped

Procedure:

-In a mixing bowl mix all the ingredients except oil, green chilllies and coriander and keep it aside (refrigerator) for 20 hours. (mix good with your hands)

-If you don’t have a BBQ grill at home, line a pan with aluminum foil and grease the foil with some olive oil. Put the marinated mixture in it and bake in preheated oven (160 degrees Celsius) for approximately 90 minutes.

-If you have BBQ grill at home, thread the meat on the skewers and cook on very low heat until they are done.

-Take your dish out on a plate and serve hot with garlic nan or tandoori roti.

English Breakfast

English Breakfast is very Famous almost in every part of the world, do try this and let me know your remarks …

Ingredients:

FOR EGGS:

  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tbspns olive oil

FOR SAUSAGE:

  • 1 Sausage (Chicken or Beef or Lamb)
  • Some olive oil

FOR TOASTS:

  • 2 white or bran bread slices
  • Some butter

FOR CRISP BEEF:

  • 2 Slices of Hunter Beef or corn Beef

FOR BEANS

  • 1 canned white beans or kidney beans
  • 2 tbspns yogurt
  • 1 tspn olive oil
  • Some salt and red pepper

Procedure:

-For eggs, Fry eggs in 2 tbspns of olive oil and keep them aside in a plate.

-Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius and grill sausage + Beef slices and drizzle with some olive oil. Grill them until they are done.

-Combine salt, pepper, yogurt and beans in a bowl and mix.

-Heat oil and add this bean mixture into it. Let it simmer on low heat For 2 minutes and then immediately scoop them in the plate.

-Lightly Toast bread slices and softly apply some butter on them. Place them with all the stuff and serve hot.

Outcome:

Tasty English Breakfast is ready to be served, Serve it with grilled tomato.

Ayesha's Kitchen

Ayesha's Kitchen

Tips:

-Make sure you use Fine quality of beef.

Servings:

This will serve 1 person.

Keema* Koyla* (Coal Tempered Mincemeat)

Coal tempered mincemeat is barbecue flavoured mincemeat which is usually served with chapattis, parathas or naan bread in Pakistani. It is one of the famous dishes of Pakistan, people usually serve it on small get togethers and parties …

Ingredients:

  • ½ kg mincemeat (goat/ chicken/ lamb/ beef)
  • An onion chopped
  • A tomato chopped
  • 2 green chillies slitted
  • 4 green chillies sliced lengthways (OPTIONAL)
  • ½ bunch coriander
  • Some ginger julienne
  • ¼ cup water
  • ¼ cup oil
  • ¼ tspn ginger garlic paste
  • Few cumin seeds
  • 1 tspn red chilli powder
  • ¼ tspn turmeric
  • Some salt to taste
  • ½ tspn garam masala

Procedure:

-Heat oil and stir fry onions until they are golden brown. Add ginger garlic paste and tomato. Cook well on low heat. When tomatoes lose their stiffness add mincemeat and fry for a minute. Add water and all the spices and cook it covered on medium heat.

-After 10 – 15 minutes, when very less amount of water remains, place a big piece of onion or some dry paper and place hot coal on it. Pour some oil over it and immediately cover your dish.

-Remove from flame and keep it covered for 10 minutes.

-Remove coal and paper/ onion.

-Stir in some coriander and green chillies, scoop and serve hot with daal and chapattis.

Outcome:

Tasty coal tempered barbecue taste mincemeat is ready.

Tips:

Use non-stick pan.

Servings:

This will serve 2 – 4 persons easily.

Narigisi Kofta

Nargisi Kofta is a famous delicacy of Pakistan, women over there used to do these kind of experiments but this was one of their successful inventions, people appreciated it and now this dish is often served on weddings or other occasions, do try them and let me know your remarks, if you cant understand anything please ask me, email me (About page) …

Ingredients:

FOR KOFTAS

  • ½ kg chicken/lamb/ beef mincemeat
  • Some salt
  • ¼ tspn turmeric powder
  • 4 – 8 dried red chillies (even 12 if you want really spicy)
  • 1 tbspn dried coriander whole
  • A small (1 cm) pc. Of cinnamon stick
  • ½ tspn nigella seeds
  • ¼ tspn carom seeds
  • 1 green cardamom pod
  • A pinch of garam masala powder
  • 4 – 6 hard boiled eggs
  • Oil for frying

FOR CURRY

  • ¼ cup oil
  • An onion chopped
  • A tomato chopped
  • ½ lemon squeezed
  • Salt to taste (keep in mind, meatballs also have salt in them)
  • ½ tspn red chilli powder
  • 1 dried red chilli
  • 1 lemon squeezed
  • ½ tspn funnel seeds (saunf) (powdered)
  • ¼ tspn nigella seeds
  • ½ tspn cumin seeds
  • 2 – 4 dried curry leaves
  • 1 big green chilli shopped
  • Few coriander leaves chopped
  • ¼ tspn methi dana
  • ½ tspn dry whole coriander
  • 2 – 4 cracked black peppercorns
  • Some water
  • 3 tbspns yogurt

Procedure:

-Combine all the dry spices given for meatballs in a spice blender and make a fine powder.

-Add this powder to mincemeat and mix well, use food processor if needed.

-Now very carefully, take some mincemeat and make it into egg sized balls. Now coat this mincemeat around boiled egg and deep fry in hot oil.

-When its golden brown in colour take it out and keep aside.

-Do the same with the remaining eggs and mincemeat.

-Now for curry, heat oil and add curry leaves, cumin seeds, cracked coriander and dried red chilli. When they begin to splatter add onions. Cook for some time and then add all the spices except nigella seeds, saunf and methi dana.

-Blend nigella seeds, saunf and methi dana in spice blender to make fine powder. Keep it aside.

-Now add tomatoes in the curry and mix well until they lose their stiffness, cook them on low heat.

-Now add water and let it simmer. Add yogurt, powdered masala and lemon juice and let it simmer for some time. Add fried koftas and with a spoon pour over the gravy on it.

-Cook on low heat for 2 minutes and then garnish with coriander leaves and green chillies and serve hot with chapattis.

Outcome:

Tasty nargisi koftas are ready to serve.

Ayesha's Kitchen

Ayesha's Kitchen

Tips:

-I like these koftas with simmered curry, if you want to make a bit gravy kind of thing, add 1 cup of water.

-Adjust salt and pepper according to your will.

Servings:

This will serve 3 – 4 persons easily.

Keema Omelette

Keema Omelette is a unique recipe of Pakistan. Like we make keema samosa, keema kachori, keema paratha, etc. same we make keema omelette. It is like keema Filling is wrapped in egg wrap. Do try this, its awesome …

Ingredients:

Procedure:

-Heat oil and spread it all over the pan.

-Crack two eggs in a bowl and beat well.

-Now pour this mixture on the pan and cook it on low heat without any disturbance.

-Now when it is a little bit cooked, spread mincemeat all over it. Now Fold and turn Frequently. When its golden red dish it out and serve hot with bread or Fork.

Outcome:

Tasty treat For non vegs is ready to serve.

 

Ayesha's Kitchen

Ayesha's Kitchen

Tips:

-Do not add salt because it is already there in mincemeat.

Servings:

This will serve 1 – 2 person.

Haleem

Haleem is a traditional pakistani dish, made up of beef and lentils, do try this and make your day …

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup oil
  • 2 litres water (15 glasses of water)
  • 500 gms of boneless beef
  • 100 gms of marrow bones

FOR TEMPERING

  • ½ cups oil
  • A large sized onion sliced thinly
  • 1 tspn garlic paste
  • Few curry leaves
  • A pinch of cumin seeds

FOR GRAINS

  • 1 cup whole wheat grains
  • ½ cup unsplitted oats
  • ½ cup gram daal
  • 4 tbspns moong daal*
  • 4 tbspns masoor daal*
  • 8 tbspn urad daal
  • 2 – 4 cups of water

FOR MASALA

  • 2 tspns chaat masala
  • Some salt to taste
  • Few curry leaves
  • 6 – 8 dried red chillies
  • ½ tspn turmeric
  • ½ tbspn dried coriander
  • 1 tspn cumin seeds
  • ½ tspn garam masala powder

FOR GARNISH

  • Garnish platter

Procedure:

-Combine all the grains together and soak it for 24 hours.

-Combine all the ingredients given for masala except chaat masala in a blender and make fine powder.

-Heat 1 cup of oil in a thick bottomed pot and fry beef bones and meat for 10 minutes. Add powdered masala except chaat masala.

-Fry for another 5 minutes.

-Add soaked grains and 2 litres of water.

-Let it cook for 8 – 12 hours on very low heat, until the beef and lentils start decomposing. Remove bones.

-After 10 hours start stirring it, pressing them with stirring spoon.

-Meanwhile heat rest of the oil and fry curry leaves, onion and cumin seeds and when they begin to splatter add it to the gravy and stir.

-Add chaat masala, mix and serve hot with naan bread and garnish platter.

Outcome:

Superb Haleem is ready to serve.

Ayesha's Kitchen

Ayesha's Kitchen

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Ayesha’s Kitchen

Tips:

-Cook on low heat and stir it occasionally.

-After 10 hours, start pressing and stirring the whole thing.

Servings:

This will serve 8 – 10 persons easily.