Salan

Everyday Pakistani salan – the cooked dish the meal is built around, gravy-rich or relatively dry.

Recipes

Pakistani Lobia – Black-Eyed Pea Salan

My Lahore-style safed lobia: tender black-eyed peas cooked with red onions, tomato and simple spices. Mild, comforting and made for roti or rice.

3 hr Serves 10 Mild

Pakistani Aaloo Qeema – Mince & Potatoes

A homestyle Pakistani dish of minced meat and potatoes cooked with red onions, tomato, yoghurt and simple spices until the qeema is savoury, the potatoes are tender and the finished dish is moist rather than saucy.

1 hr Serves 6 Mild–Medium