Make an easy one-pot Pakistani beef Nihari recipe with little preps of less than 30 minutes and fewer ingredients. I can tell you this will be best the curried beef stew you ever had!
Pakistani beef nihari recipe is really unique and difficult to imagine. If you love curried beef, you'd just love it.
Serving
TOTAL TIME
8
4 hrs 20 mins
Calories
534kcal
PREP
20 minutes
The ingredients are actually simple and clearly visible in the labeled pictures.
beef shank
oil
wheat flour
nihari masala
ginger, garlic, chilli
yogurt
onion
garnish
For making nihari you need a large pot and fry sliced onions on low until lightly golden.
Fry beef on medium-high heat for 2-3 until color changes and it is slightly golden. Now add all the ingredients in the spice list and stir further for 1 minute.
Add 4 cups of water enough to cover the beef completely. Bring it to boil then reduce heat to slow and cook for 4 hours or overnight (on very low heat). Make sure the lid is tightly closed.
Once the meat is tender, check by breaking meat with a fork.
Remove the bones. Extract the bone marrow from bones by holding it with a kitchen towel jerking carefully over a bowl. Or insert the back of the spoon to remove it.
Make flour slurry by mix flour with cold water until smooth.
Add flour slurry and whipped yogurt to the beef stew.
Adjust water as needed and bring it to a boil. Keep stirring so the flour slurry doesn't form lumps. Once the nihari starts boiling. Reduce heat and let it simmer slowly.