Home cooking
Pakistan
58 dishes, kept by 3 cooks who put their own weeknights on the shelf.
The Pakistan shelf
What Pakistan cooks when it is cooking for itself.
One catalog, seen from one kitchen. The shelf opens on what households here cooked this week and closes on what gets made in twenty minutes, because that is what a weeknight actually looks like.
Cooked most this week
Aloo Anday (Potato and Egg Bhujia)
Aloo Keema (Beef Mince with Potato)
Anda Bhurji (Spiced Scrambled Egg)
Chicken Fried Rice (Pakistani Style)
Chicken Qorma (Browned Onion and Yogurt Braise)
Half Fry Anda aur Double Roti (Fried Egg and Toast)
Khichri (Rice and Moong Daal)
Lobia Salan (Black-Eyed Pea Curry)
Pindi Cholay (Dark Rawalpindi Chickpeas)
Sada Chawal (Plain Boiled Basmati)
Seekh Kebab (Spiced Beef Skewers)
Sindhi Biryani (Chicken)
Thirty years of feeding a Lahore household, three generations at one dastarkhwan. My salan is done when the oil rises, that is the only clock I trust.
Breakfast, so nobody decides at dawn
Aloo Anday (Potato and Egg Bhujia)
Aloo ki Bhujia (Dry Spiced Potato)
Anda Bhurji (Spiced Scrambled Egg)
Anday Wala Paratha (Egg-Stuffed Paratha)
Doodh Patti Chai (Milk Tea)
Half Fry Anda aur Double Roti (Fried Egg and Toast)
Halwa Puri Nashta (Weekend Breakfast)
Keema Paratha (Mince-Stuffed Paratha)
Nihari (Slow-Cooked Beef Shank)
Paya (Trotter Shorba)
Pindi Cholay (Dark Rawalpindi Chickpeas)
Sada Paratha (Plain Layered Paratha)
Lunch, without deciding twice
Aloo Gobi ki Sabzi (Potato and Cauliflower)
Aloo Gosht (Beef and Potato Shorba)
Aloo Keema (Beef Mince with Potato)
Aloo ki Bhujia (Dry Spiced Potato)
Aloo Palak (Spinach and Potato)
Anda Salan (Egg Curry)
Beef Biryani
Beef Kofta Curry
Bhindi Gosht (Mutton with Okra)
Bhindi ki Sabzi (Dry Okra)
Bhuna Keema (Dry-Fried Beef Mince)
Chanay ki Daal (Split Bengal Gram)
Pakistan, dish of the day
Chanay ki Daal (Split Bengal Gram)
Pakistani home cooking, and on the plate it is the dish at the centre and the protein alongside.
Tonight's dinners
Aloo Anday (Potato and Egg Bhujia)
Aloo Gobi ki Sabzi (Potato and Cauliflower)
Aloo Gosht (Beef and Potato Shorba)
Aloo Keema (Beef Mince with Potato)
Aloo ki Bhujia (Dry Spiced Potato)
Aloo Palak (Spinach and Potato)
Anda Bhurji (Spiced Scrambled Egg)
Anda Salan (Egg Curry)
Beef Biryani
Beef Kofta Curry
Bhindi Gosht (Mutton with Okra)
Bhindi ki Sabzi (Dry Okra)
Under thirty minutes
Aloo Anday (Potato and Egg Bhujia)
Aloo ki Bhujia (Dry Spiced Potato)
Aloo Palak (Spinach and Potato)
Anda Bhurji (Spiced Scrambled Egg)
Anda Salan (Egg Curry)
Anday Wala Paratha (Egg-Stuffed Paratha)
Bhindi ki Sabzi (Dry Okra)
Bhuna Keema (Dry-Fried Beef Mince)
Chicken Fried Rice (Pakistani Style)
Chicken Jalfrezi (Pakistani Home Style)
Doodh Patti Chai (Milk Tea)
Half Fry Anda aur Double Roti (Fried Egg and Toast)
Who keeps this shelf
3 cooks, one kitchen, no editors in between.
Or start from the recipes
Plan a week from Pakistan
Dinejot builds the week around this kitchen: the same spice tolerance, the same effort on a Wednesday, and the things nobody at your table will eat, left out by construction.