Cookbook:Cuisine of Pakistan

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Pakistani cuisine is broadly very similar to the cuisine of North India, but with strong influences from Persia, Afghanistan, and the south-west coast of the Indian sub-continent. Muslims eat fewer vegetarian dishes and more meat dishes than Hindus, and don't avoid beef. It is also regionally splintered along geographical and ethnic lines, with regional cuisines. Finally, the coming of independence in 1947 brought an influx of Indian Muslims across the border, with many traditional Indian dishes becoming Pakistani staples too.

Main Dishes

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• Cookbook:Matar Pulao
• Cookbook:Mix Sabzi
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• Aloo gobi
• Alu masala (potato filling for dosa)
• Dal (lentils)
• Keralan Vegetable Stew
• Matar Paneer
• Saffron Rice
• Tadka Dal (lentil stew)

Non-Vegetarian Dishes

• Biryani (rice-based dish with mutton/lamb or beef or chicken or fish)
• Cookbook:Karahi Gosht (Made with mutton/lamb or beef)
• Cookbook:Chicken Karahi (Spicy fried chicken with thick gravy)
• Cookbook:Nihari (mutton or beef stew cooked overnight)
• Cookbook:Pulao (rice-based dish made with chicken or mutton/lamb or beef stock)
• Cookbook:Haleem (Very famous beef dish cooked overnight)
• Cookbook:Shami Kabab (minced beef burger)
• Cookbook:Peshawari Kabab (Grilled minced beef burger with spices )
• Cookbook:Payay (Beef or mutton/lamb Trotters with tasty soup cooked overnight)
• Barbequed Chicken leg or breast marinated with spices /Tikka Masala
• Egg Rice (an accompaniment that can also be eaten by itself)
• Butter Chicken (Chicken Makhni, Chicken cooked with a taste of butter)
• Bombay duck/Bomry/Bomil Fry (fried fish)
• Chicken Curry
• Chicken Tikka

Accompaniments

• Coconut chutney
• Raita
• Pan masala

Breads

• Baati
• Chapati or Roti (thin flat bread)
• Naan (flat wheat bread)
• Puri or loochi
• Shirmal

Snacks

• Samosa (fried appetizer similar to dumplings, Empanada)

Sweets

• Rosogolla (Steamed cheese based sweet)
• Gulab jamun (Deep fried milk based sweet)
• Kheer (rice pudding)
• Sheer Khurma (sweet noodle soup)
• Jalebi (syrupy sweets shaped like pretzels)
• Barfi (condensed milk sweet)

Beverages

• Lassi (yoghurt based shakes in either sweet or salted flavors, most common flavors include mango, rosewater and plain sugar sweetened lassi.)
• Doodh-Patti (A variant of tea, in which little or no water is used, made with milk)
• Chai Tea