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Golden pan-seared chicken drowning in a garlicky sun-dried tomato cream sauce — ready in 30 minutes, and the pan is barely dirty.
No masala packets. No shortcuts. Just tomatoes, ginger and green chillies bubbling until the oil rises — the way karahi has been made in Lahori dhabas for decades.
Crackly on top, gooey in the middle. Six ingredients, one bowl, and a chocolate river that pours out the moment you break in with your spoon.
Layers of saffron rice, slow-cooked beef, jammy potatoes and sour plums. This is the biryani your Sunday afternoons were made for.
Juicy shrimp, a shameless amount of garlic butter and a splash of lemon. Serve on toast, over pasta, or straight from the pan with a spoon.
A biscuit base, cloud-light mango cream, and a glossy mango mirror on top. No oven, no water bath, no cracks. Just chill and slice.
From weeknight biryani to no-bake summer desserts — ten new home-tested recipes with the full story, method and chef's tips.
The trick isn't more spinach — it's shocking it in ice water. Silky spinach gravy, soft paneer cubes, and that dhaba-style finish of cream and butter on top.
Spiced minced beef, soft cubes of potato, and a masala rich enough that the roti becomes a spoon. This is Pakistani comfort food, distilled.
A blistered tomato-pepper stew, cumin-scented, with eggs cracked in to poach until the yolks are just set. Eat straight from the pan with torn bread.
A silky parmesan-cream sauce that clings to fettuccine, buttery seared chicken, and one trick that keeps leftovers creamy instead of gluey.
Six onions, one heavy pot, a stick of butter and time. The result is mahogany-dark, deeply savoury, and topped with a raft of bubbling gruyère toast.
Fluffy eggs shot through with chopped onion, tomato, green chilli and fresh coriander. Fold it over a slice of buttered toast and thank us later.
Fall-apart beef shank in a deeply-spiced, wheat-thickened gravy — served with hot naan, sliced ginger and a squeeze of lemon. This is Pakistani slow food at its finest.
A summer twist on tiramisu: strawberry-soaked ladyfingers layered with cloud-light mascarpone cream and fresh berries. No baking, no raw eggs, done in 25 minutes.
Marinated chicken thighs roasted until the edges char, garlicky toum sauce, pickled turnips and warm flatbread. Better than any takeaway.
Golden fried vegetable balls tossed in a sticky, glossy soy-garlic sauce with spring onion. The takeaway favourite, better and cheaper.
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