Name: Slow Cooked Beef Shanks (Nihari)
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: Serves: 6-8 persons
Cuisine: Pakistani
Ingredients: fresh Coriander Leaves (chopped); 1 kg Beef Shanks (boneless); Ginger (julienne); 6 Green Cardamoms; 3 Black Cardamoms; 6-7 tbsp Oil /Ghee; ¼ tsp Mace Powder; 1 small Onion (sliced); 1 Star Anise; 1 tbsp Garlic Paste/Powder; 4 tbsp Yoghurt; 3 tbsp Cumin Seeds; ½ tsp Turmeric Powder; 3-4 tbsp Whole-Wheat Flour; 1 tsp Ginger Powder; ½ tsp Garam Masala Powder; 500 g Bones (with bone marrow); 1 tbsp Ginger Paste/Powder; 2 tsp Red Chilli Powder; Green Chillies; 3 tbsp Fennel Seeds; Lemon; 3-4 tbsp Oil; 7 Cloves; ¼ tsp Nutmeg Powder

Preparation info

Serves:
6-8
persons

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
15 min

Appears in

VIRSA

By Shehar Bano Rizvi

Published 2021

About

Nihari is a stew from the Indian subcontinent consisting of slow-cooked beef shanks with bone marrow. Ammi sometimes makes nihari using chicken. Nihari is my ABSOLUTE favourite Pakistani dish. I can eat this meal for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and then breakfast again, and so on. Whenever there is leftover nihari in the refrigerator, I will not eat anything else.

I was a very fussy eater as a child. Usually, half an hour before dinner, I would ask Ammi, “What’s for dinn