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What is Pakistan’s national dish? Hint: It’s not daal roti!

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thank you.. but I was talking about pure daal dish.. dark greenish in color
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@Irfan Baloch

It's called Aash, In Pakistan it might have some other name.
 
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whai is the most common drink after chai? roohafza?
what is the most common dessert? zarda?
 
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Do you eat beef palao?
overrated! pulao/biriyani goes best with tender lamb!

I don't think you can eat the palao i wrote about legally in India :p:
in india Beef = cara beef ( 90% of time) which u can get 24/7!

Well I bought 4 mutton biriyani and Kadai checken gravy and one chettinad chicken gravy plus four ghee Naan. That's a good business for the restaurant :D Because of the this accused who posted this thread :P


Wow that so cheap man. Here one biriyani cost 180 INR and one full tandoori chicken will cost 560 INR . One butter chicken or any chicken gravy cost around - 160_250 INR...

Fuk you are so lucky bro. Enjoy
which city ? Here in Lucknow ~!

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After building up so much suspence, writer cudn't come up with something else other then biryani :/ whats the point?? Pulao way tastier and biryani is unknown in more then half of the country, but everyone makes pulao with variations

@ghazi52 will kill ppl with these food threads every two days theres a new one :cheesy:
u dont like Biriyani !
 
Contrary to the popular belief in Pakistan, beef is very much available in India, legally. In some states only cow (female) slaughter is banned, and recently in two or three states bull slaughter has been banned. Buffalo slaughter is not banned anywhere though.
Cara beef ain't tasty it taste weirdish

you making me hungry & all i got to eat is Gangaloo Gosht
Some call it tipper
Some call it Shaljam

I call it Yuk :o:
My favorite sabzi shaljam
@engineer saad @Shamain @django
 
@punit not to hurt any biryani fanatics :P but we hardly make it, only for guests if they actually say they want it, in Punjab pulao is preferred over biryani.
 
@punit not to hurt any biryani fanatics :P but we hardly make it, only for guests if they actually say they want it, in Punjab pulao is preferred over biryani.
i also love pulao ! a well made pulao can rival any Biriyani. but people tend to get lazy while making Pulao and most of the time u will get a generic version.
 
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What is Pakistan’s national dish? Hint: It’s not daal roti!

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In order to qualify as the national dish of Pakistan, it would need to be a common household feature across Pakistan.

During lunch, a colleague asked us what is the national dish of Pakistan, and everyone present provided a different answer. I said that’s easy, it has to bedaal roti(lentils and flat bread), right? This was quickly rebutted by someone mentioning that it has to be a rice-based dish and thatrotiis not as common as you may think, especially in the past decade or so.

One would assume the answer is biryani? I mean who does not eat biryani? But no, it cannot be. Biryani is too elite a meal and too limited to certain regions of this vast and culturally diverse country. Well then, what does Google have to say?

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Nihari– Most of the hits indicate that nihariis the national dish of Pakistan. However, this also cannot be correct. It is an Arabic dish more popular in Punjab and Sindh and that too in the larger cities for those who can afford it. Parts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Balochistan almost completely overlook dishes such as nihari and biryani. Surely, in order to qualify as the national dish of Pakistan, it would need to be a common household feature across Pakistan.

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Naturally, every region in Pakistan would have a different local dish and the dish we may end up choosing as our national dish would not be that popular, either by way of preference or necessity, in a lot of regions. However, at the very least, it has to be a meat-based dish, right? Wrong. With a very low per capita income, it has to be an affordable meal.

So, what is the national dish of Pakistan? What is the one meal had in homes of the majority from Gilgit-Baltistan to the Makran coast?

At the very outset, it is important to lay down certain ground rules which are or rather should be necessary to determine what the national dish of a particular country is.

First and foremost, it is not simply the most common dish the country is known for. For example, sushi is what Japan is most known for. However, the most consumed meal there is either ramen or donburi and sushi is only reserved for somewhat special occasions. Secondly, it is not the dish the people of the country desire the most but rather actually end up eating the most. So, instead of a nice roast dinner, the bacon butty would top the list in the United Kingdom.

Thirdly, it is not just a matter of the dish being the most consumed in the country, it has to be a dish that is eaten regularly in most parts of the country.

Lastly, it has to be fairly significant. So, chai (tea) roti or any other form of bread with teawhich almost all of Pakistan has for breakfast is out.

Now that we have disregarded biryaniand nihari, let’s look at some other contenders.

Aloo gosht (meat and potato gravy)How many times have you heard this?

What’s for dinner?

Why its aalu gosht. Again?

The fact is that mutton is expensive and as common as this food item is in the households of most of you reading this article, unfortunately, a majority of the public cannot afford such luxuries.

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Chicken salan or masala (chicken gravy) – Nope, once again, too expensive and thus not as common a feature in a majority of Pakistani homes. All sorts of meat are sadly out then. As a country, we may have perfected cooking our meat but it is not something the common man can have that often.

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Daal roti – Yes, finally a serious contender and my first guess as the national food. The fact is that daal and roti is very popular indeed, however, it is not as widely consumed if one looks at it region wise. If one looks at certain regions of northern Punjab, then yes, it is still the most consumed meal but with rising prices of daal¸ even in regions where daal and roti was almost a daily occurrence, less expensive alternatives have replaced it. Besides, daal and roti is not as common in parts of K-P and Balochistan.

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NIhari is the national dish of Pakistan.:man_in_love:

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NIhari is the national dish of Pakistan.:man_in_love:

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GOOD CHOICE ! but pakistani eat Nihari all the day .. which goes against the spirit of Nihari ! nahari should be eaten just after sunrise!

it is called Haleem i am from Sialkot and 5 different daals with 5 maghzz (buts) with very little beef
u call that haleem ! :(
 
u guys can fight over origin of foods..!!
btw tomatoes, potatoes and chillipepper were brought to south asia by portuguese. I'd love to know how aloo ghost tasted w/o aloo chilli and tomato before 500 yrs.
 

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