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Mutton Karahi/ Lamb Karahi

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A very famous dish in Pakistan…. It is my version and everyone who has eaten it, loves it. It is not SHINWARI, I will be sharing shinwari karahi recipe in another post, this recipe is more like restaurant or Lahore’s Butt Karahi version…. but better because I have added my special magic to it 🎩🪄
For your convenience I have divided the ingredients into 5 parts and steps, please follow the exact recipe for the authentic taste 😋

TIPS
🔸️Always get meat from 1 lamb/ goat. Don’t buy mix curry pieces because if 1 piece is smelly or of old animal, it will ruin the taste plus the cook time will vary.
🔹️Always buy young animal as its meat will be pink and small grain which will make it easy to cook.

INGREDIENTS
1 kilo lamb meat with bones, I have used a mix of nalli, chaamp and puth (shanks, chops and back strap)
150g lamb fat from the kidney (if you cant find the kidney fat, go for normal fat)
5 medium sized tomatoes (cut into 4 wedges per tomato)
2 tbspns freshly crushed ginger, garlic and green chillies
2 desi green chillies or Turkish green chillies, cut into small pieces or lengthways
4 tbspn freshly chopped green coriander
1/4 cup oil

For Meat Pressure
1 small onion, sliced
1 tbspn ginger garlic paste
1 green chilli, as it is
Salt to taste

Spices
1 tbspn red chilli powder and flakes
1 tspn Kashmiri red chilli powder
1 tbspn cumin powder
1 tbspn coriander powder

For Tempering
1 tbspn butter or ghee
A pinch of kasuri methi
A generous pinch of cracked black pepper

For Garnish
4 tbspn freshly chopped green coriander
Few juliennes of ginger
2 green chillies sliced

METHOD
– In a pressure cooked add all the ingredients mentioned under “For meat pressure” along with 2 cups of water and cook until the meat is 80% done. (I wont mention the number of whistles because all the pressure cookers are different)
– In a separate pan/ wok (I prefer a large size wok with a lid as it is spacious) melt some lamb fat on high flame and then add oil, bring the temperature to medium and add freshly crushed ginger garlic and green chilli paste and stir fry until fragrant.
– Add tomatoes and cover the cook pot and cook for 10 minutes in low to medium heat or until the skin of tomatoes starts wrinkling.
– Take off the tomato skin with the help of tongs and add all the spices and turn the flame high. Cook until the tomatoes are mushy and the spices are cooked.
– Now scoop out the cooked lamb pieces and add it to the tomato gravy. Mix and cook for 5 minutes and add 1 cup of mutton stock to it from the pressure cooker. Reduce the flame and cook until the oil starts separating and the meat is cooked 100%. It will take approximately 15 minutes.
– Melt ghee/ butter in a separate pan and add the ingredients mentioned under “Tempering”. Give them a sizzle and add it to the meat.
– Garnish with ginger, green chillies and coriander and serve hot with khameeri roti or naan.

Tawa Keema/ Tawa Qeema

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This recipe is my very own version of tawa keema. It is a very chat pata, masaledaar dish which can be made in minutes and loved by all. A very easy and rich recipe for you one dish girls party or just a casual dinner when you dont feel like cooking a time consuming dish.

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Ingredients:

  • 4 tbspns oil
  • 500 gms chicken/ lamb/ beef keema
  • A generous pinch of meat tenderizer (only if using beef or mutton)
  • 2 tbspns fried onions (crushed)
  • 1 tbspn ginger and garlic paste (fresh)
  • 2 tomatoes blanched, peeled and chopped fine
  • 3 tbspns green chillies (chopped fine)
  • Salt to taste
  • A generous pinch of chicken salt
  • 1 tspn Kashmiri red chilli powder
  • 1 tspn red chilli flakes
  • ½ tspn turmeric
  • 1 tspn cracked coriander seeds
  • 1 tspn crushed roasted cumin seeds
  • 1 tspn pan roasted anardana (crushed)
  • A pinch of cracked black pepper
  • A generous knob of butter
  • A pinch of methi leaves
  • 2 tbspns lemon juice

Method:

  1. Add a generous pinch of meat tenderizer to the mincemeat and mix. Keep aside for 30 minutes. If you are using chicken mince, eliminate this step.
  2. Heat oil on a tawa and fry ginger garlic paste and green chillies. Add the mince and stir fry. Break it into pieces while stir frying on medium heat. Add tomatoes and all the ingredients accept lemon juice, methi leaves, black pepper and butter and cook until the tomatoes are mushy.
  3. Add butter and stir fry until the food looks cooked and the oil starts separating. Add rest of the ingredients and give a quick last stir.
  4. Serve hot with roti.

Sindhi Biryani

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Sindhi Biryani is one of the mos popular type of biryani in town after Bombay Biryani and Karachi Biryani & I like it the most as it is not very spicy and it is very aromatic. It is a special delicacy of Sindh Province, Pakistan and one of the popular dish in Pakistani home cooking as well ……. Try and fall in love with it ..

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Ingredients:

  • 4 cups basmati rice
  • 2 kgs mutton chops
  • 4 big potatoes cut into thick wedges
  • 6 onions
  • 2 cups water
  • 4 tomatoes
  • 250 gms yogurt
  • 4 bayleaves
  • 8 big cardamoms
  • 2 green cardamoms
  • 1 tbspn peppercorns
  • 1 tspn cloves
  • 2 tbspns crushed ginger
  • 1 tbspn crushed garlic
  • Salt to taste
  • 2 tbspns red chilli flakes
  • 1 tspn cumin seeds
  • Some mace and nutmeg
  • 8 dried plums soaked in warm water for 5 mins
  • 2 tbspns kewra essence
  • 1 bunch coriander chopped
  • 1 bunch mint leaves chopped
  • 4 pieces cinnamon
  • 1 tbspn heap full of garam masala
  • 3 lemons (cut into slices)
  • Some yellow food color
  • 1 cup oil

Procedure:

-Heat a cup of oil and fry onion until they are really golden and crunchy.

-Take them out in a plate for later use. ( reserve ¼ onion = 2 onions for later use)

-Turn off the flame and add all the spices except garam masala in the hot oil and let it splatter. Now add garlic and ginger and mix. Turn on the flame again and add meat.

-Stir fry meat and add salt.

-When the meat begins to get grey and a bit cooked add water and give it a boil.

-Meanwhile crush the larger portion of onion in mortar and pestle and mix the paste with yogurt. Mix in half of the chopped coriander and mint leaves and garam masala powder and add this to the boiling meat and let it cook on low heat for 30 – 35 minutes or pressure cook for 2 whistles and then add potatoes and cook on medium – high heat covered until the water evaporates, potatoes are tender and masala is formed. Now add soaked dried plums and mix.

-Boil rice to 3/4th strength and discard the starchy water or you can do what I do. Cook rice in rice cooker (very easy method).

-Now in a separate deep cooking pot lay a layer of rice then some sliced tomatoes, then half of the meat curry then some lemon slices some chopped coriander and mint leaves and then repeat the whole order of layering again putting coriander, mint and green chillies on the top. Drizzle some kewra essence and ome yellow food colour and cook covered on low heat for 5 minutes (if you have cooked rice in a rice cooker) and for 15 minutes (if rice are boiled in a vessel to 3/4th strength).

-Now gently mix the rice and curry layers and dish out.

-Garnish with some crunchy golden fried onion and serve hot.

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Keema Aalu Methi

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If you are not in mood of just vegetables, add some mincemeat ……….

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Ingredients:

  • 500 gms mincemeat
  • 1 large onion, sliced
  • 2 tomatoes, chopped
  • 1 tbspn garlic and ginger, crushed
  • 1 green chilli, chopped
  • ½ cup oil
  • 500 gms methi (fresh fenugreek leaves)
  • 2 large potatoes , peeled and diced
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 tbspn red chilli flakes
  • 1 tspn turmeric powder
  • 2 tbspns yogurt
  • 1 tspn coriander powder
  • 1 tspn garam masala powder

Procedure:

-Heat oil and fry onion and ginger garlic until its golden red. Add mincemeat and stir, break and cook on medium heat for about 5 minutes or until the mincemeat changes its colour.

-Add methi, potatoes and all the spices. Stir and cook until the water dries. Add tomatoes and yogurt and cook covered on medium heat for 20 minutes or until the oil hoose out.

-Serve hot with raita, salad and rotis.

Muthi Kabab

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Another variation of Seekh Kabab …..

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Ingredients:

  • 700 g beef mince (20% fat 80% meat)
  • 2 medium sized onion
  • 4 – 8 green chillies
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • 1 tbspn ginger
  • Salt
  • Red chilli powder
  • 1 tspn garam masala
  • 1 tbspn chaat masala
  • ½ tspn cumin seeds
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tomato deseeded and chopped fine
  • ½ bunch of fresh coriander (chopped)
  • 2 tspn gram flour (pan roasted)
  • Oil for shallow frying

Procedure:

-In an electric chopper, chop onion, garlic, ginger and green chillies together. Take this mixture in your hand (little by little) and squeeze access water and keep it aside.

-In a deep mixing bowl, put mincemeat and add all the spices, onion mixture, chopped tomatoes and coriander. Add egg and mix with your hands. Mix, mix and mix until well combined.

-Keep aside for 10 minutes.

-Now take a handful of this mixture and give them oval like shape, like seekh kabab but without whole.

-Fill a skillet with oil to 5cm.

-Fry the kababs and serve hot with tamarind sauce or podina raita.

Afghani Kabab

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A very easy and tasty appetizer ……….

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Ingredients:

  • ½ kg beef mincemeat
  • 1 tspn salt
  • 1 tspn black pepper
  • 1 tspn red chilli powder
  • 1 tspn garam masala
  • 1 tbspns ginger and garlic paste
  • 1 onion chopped
  • 1 onion cut into cubes
  • 1 tomato cut into cubes
  • 1 green capsicum cut into cubes
  • Some ghee

Procedure:

-Chop beef and onion in chopper.

-Now add all the spices and mix. On skewers screw mincemeat, onion, tomato and capsicum.

-Grill.

-Serve hot with mint sauce and naan.