Whenever a European tastes Pakistani food they always sound. ‘it’s very spicy. Pakistani feed is peppery’. Yes, Pakistani meals are so spicy as we add different types of seasoning in our meals but not all meals are spicy some are less peppery. Pakistanis eat halal food.
Mutton, Beef, and Chicken Pakistani food
Being a Muslim Pakistani are carnivorous. Famous non-vegan dishes are Biryani, Qorma, Karahi, Tikka, and grilled Chicken are very spicy and savory. These cuisines are offered at marriage functions and festivities. Pak community makes it at home too occasionally and non occasionally. Besides these Haleem, Nihari, Pulao, Stew, and Achari Chicken are also tasty and remarkable menus in Pakistani food. They prepare mince from meat and cook it in different styles which are kababs and kofta. Asians cook vegetables with mutton, beef, and chicken as well.
Pakistani food of vegetable recipes
Pakistan nation loves vegetables as they are herbivorous too. They are blessed with a lot of savory vegetables like bottle gourd, beetroot, spring onion, turnips, carrots, potatoes, spinach, radish, ladyfingers, sweet potato, bitter gourd, eggplants, and beans. All these herbs they cook simply with fewer chilies. Additionally, stuffed vegetables with mince are savory food. Some salad vegetables they dine as a salad with every menu. It is mandatory too in festivals and matrimony.
Lentils and rice are daily meals
In Pakistani culture, people love rice and lentils most. These grains come at the top of the Pakistani food list. They boil rice with cumin and cook lentils apart with a few seasonings and enjoy them while mixing. They have a lot of traditional grain recipes like qabooli, peas pulao, biryani, pulao, tahiri, and chickpea rice. Some menus are so hot whereas others are less peppery and they dine these recipes with ‘raita’ which is simply yogurt with a little salt. Most Pakistani nations enjoy rice recipes during summer.
Raita and chutney (sauce)
Raita is like a side dish. Pak people make it with yogurt and add different seasonings in it to make it more tasty or sometimes some vegetables too. All pak people also enjoy chutney which is a sauce made at home like chili sauce, mint sauce, or tomato sauce. They also love mango pickles with rice and lentils. Raita is mandatory in parties and celebrations as Biryani is imperfect without raita and it is healthy.
Deserts of Pakistani food
Pak desserts are one of the most salubrious sweetmeals in the world. They are very unique and flavorful. As western deserts are very unhealthy, Pakistani sweets like carrot halwa, chickpeas halwa, rice kheer (pudding), and sheer khurma are healthful and famous for wedding functions. Some are also unhealthy desserts like labe-shireen, jaleibi, and gulab jamun are famous desserts too.
Street food of Pakistan
Pak nation is famous for its unhealthy and unhygienic street food such as samosa, chickpea chaat, rolls, and gol gappy. People enjoy these poor refreshments a lot and they make them at home too.
Bread, and oil loafs
Asians drink tea with their breakfast. They eat oil loaves normally called “paratha” which they prepare with flour. First, knead dough then make roti which is a disk-shaped bread then fry it in a straight pan while frying they add some oil to prepare an oil loaf or paratha which they enjoy as a morning meal with tea. Likewise, they make bread at home is known as “roti” but without oil. yes, Pakistanis most of the time make bread at home. Rarely do they buy it from the market which they say is “tandoor”. On the other hand, tea bread is similar to Belgian white bread.
Teahollic.
Easterns are also familiar as tea lovers and they gladly named themselves “Teahollic”. As Belgians enjoy coffee all day, so do the Pakistanis drink tea every day, they drink tea all day long and on occasion as well. They cook it with tea grains and sugar in water after boiling few minutes add milk and simmer it again. They love tea with street food or with cakes and cookies which they buy from the bakery mostly.
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