Beef Trotters

Paaye is a specialty dish, which is a soup-like gravy cooked in bone broth. The word paaya means leg in Urdu, hence the name paaye for the meal. It is commonly cooked using either cow, goat, or lamb trotters. However, in our family, it is prepared using bhuri bhains kay paaye (brown buffalo trotters). Winter months in our family meant paaye parties everywhere. Paaye was the one dish served with the garnishing of hara masala (coriander, lemon, green chillies, and ginger), a pinch of g