Slow Cooked Beef Shanks

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

Nihari

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

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