Pakistani
Aloo Gosht (Beef and Potato Shorba)
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Aloo Gosht (Beef and Potato Shorba) is Pakistani home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Heat the oil in a pressure cooker and fry the sliced onion until golden brown, about 8 minutes. Add the ginger garlic paste and cook 1 minute.
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Add the beef and sear it over high heat for 6 minutes until it loses its raw colour and the water it releases has boiled away.
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Add the chopped tomato, turmeric, red chili powder, coriander powder, cumin, bay leaves, peppercorns and salt, and bhunno for 10 minutes until the tomato dissolves and the oil separates clean at the edges. Do not rush this step.
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Pour in the water, close the cooker and cook 25 minutes under pressure, or simmer covered 90 minutes, until the beef is tender enough to pull apart.
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Add the quartered potatoes and cook a further 10 minutes under pressure or 20 minutes covered, until they are soft and have thickened the shorba.
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Finish with garam masala, slit green chilies and coriander leaves, and let it sit 5 minutes off the heat. Serve with hot roti.
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Serve it with
A Pakistani dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Aloo Gosht (Beef and Potato Shorba), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The protein alongside
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Aloo Gosht (Beef and Potato Shorba) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 630 kcal
- Protein
- 36 g
- Carbs
- 28 g
- Fat
- 42 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 460 mg
- Saturated fat
- 12 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Aloo Gosht (Beef and Potato Shorba) takes about 70 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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