[🇵🇰] Overseas Pakistani Restaurants

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[🇵🇰] Overseas Pakistani Restaurants
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All these restaurants are run by people who have no real life experience in traditional Pakistani cuisine. They learn cooking from urban theories. Any Pakistani cooking, specially Punjabi ones without mustard oil as the principal fat along with ghee and butter are not authentic. Mustard oil and fried onions are two base elements. When you see raw onion which is not fried to golden brown is not authentic. Using tomatoes and methi indiscriminately in meat is not authentic either.
 
I never experience cooking in Mustard Oil. I am Punjabi ( Hazara, KPK. )
Travel and lived in different cities of Pakistan. Never heard of it.
First time having this statement.
KP is not the right place.
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3 years in Lahore, six years Attock, one year Sargodha, one year in Rawalpindi, Punjab just ten miles from our village/town, visited a lot.
I know the mustard oil extraction,
Ok. This oil is an edible extraction. But no one served you dishes cooked with mustard oil? Mustard is a very important crop in Punjab. Also, leaves and seeds all are used in cooking.
 
Nobody is disagreeing about mustard Crop and this crop is in KPK and Sindh also, but for other purposes.
Then you have geographical Punjab vs cultural Punjab. It is the most ancient edible oil in Punjab. Dalda and other vegetable oil are not so old which are also cheaper except Oilive oil which is similar in par with Mustard oil. The question is which Punjabi culture represent the mainstream as there are varieties of Punjabi languages and culture in the vast region. People never talk about these things because it all now covered under hybrid Turkic-Persian Muslim culture. Turkic meat only foods like kababs are now considered mainstream while very few people eat makki roti with sarson saag.
 
Mustard oil is the healthiest oil folks. We call it karrwa tail its got a high smoke point and does not break down. In many villages most sabzi/ salan/ qeema all cooked in karrwa tail. Mustard greens are used to make sarson da saag and generally eaten in the morning with parathay all over punjab.
 
Mustard oil is the healthiest oil folks. We call it karrwa tail its got a high smoke point and does not break down. In many villages most sabzi/ salan/ qeema all cooked in karrwa tail. Mustard greens are used to make sarson da saag and generally eaten in the morning with parathay all over punjab.
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Are you sure? Diabetes occurs in 34% of Pakistanis, more so than any other country. Why would this be if our food wasn't unhealthy?
 
Food is not the only factor in diabetes. Genetics play a major roles.

That would be a commendable argument if the same applied to Indians and Afghans, whom many Pakistanis share genetics with. Food has to be a root issue. The main causes are a combination of overweightness, lack of activity, and obesity - which can be caused by issues regarding food intake.
 
That would be a commendable argument if the same applied to Indians and Afghans, whom many Pakistanis share genetics with. Food has to be a root issue. The main causes are a combination of overweightness, lack of activity, and obesity - which can be caused by issues regarding food intake.
Please provide a recent peer reviewed academic research from journal which states the root cause. Web articles are not reliable scientific source.
 
Then you have geographical Punjab vs cultural Punjab. It is the most ancient edible oil in Punjab. Dalda and other vegetable oil are not so old which are also cheaper except Oilive oil which is similar in par with Mustard oil. The question is which Punjabi culture represent the mainstream as there are varieties of Punjabi languages and culture in the vast region. People never talk about these things because it all now covered under hybrid Turkic-Persian Muslim culture. Turkic meat only foods like kababs are now considered mainstream while very few people eat makki roti with sarson saag.
In old dats may be. In my memory only vey small amount of desi ghee used in cooking, Dalda arrived vey late to the villages. same in north-west Punjab.
 
In old dats may be. In my memory only vey small amount of desi ghee used in cooking, Dalda arrived vey late to the villages. same in north-west Punjab.
I usually cook with olive oil and buffalo ghee because it is not possible for me get hold of good quality of kolu pressed mustard oil. For two years, I have been a vegetarian and I am feeling great. Dalda is the worst thing one can have. It is basically hydrogenated soya bean oil.
 
I usually cook with olive oil and buffalo ghee because it is not possible for me get hold of good quality of kolu pressed mustard oil. For two years, I have been a vegetarian and I am feeling great. Dalda is the worst thing one can have. It is basically hydrogenated soya bean oil.
Yes ! Dalda type ghee should be ban in Pakistan, here in NY and NC, it is ban for Restaurants, because of saturated fat, Previously it was used widely for frying purposes ,as, it is crispy and tasty.
 
Please provide a recent peer reviewed academic research from journal which states the root cause. Web articles are not reliable scientific source.

In absence of a Pakistan one, here is one from Bangladesh. Interestingly - Bangladeshi and Pakistani food habits aren't strikingly different, with the exception that most Bangladeshis eat quite a large quantity of Fish and vegetables. But the veggies are invariably fried (the fish too) so there goes the nutritional benefit. Diabetes in Bangladesh is more prevalent among well-to-do people because they (like Pakistanis) consider vegetables non-prestigious food and can afford more animal protein-based dishes. Fish - though served in family settings, is almost absent in khana-peena for Shaadis and grand celebration of any sort.

 
For authentic Pakistani cuisine in an informal setting, I make a trip to Fullerton, California in Orange County (about 40 miles) and the place is always packed with Pakistani and Bangladeshi families.

Very economical as well. I bundle together the whole gang (friends and family) to converge there and make an event out of it. Especially for Iftar.

In my book - food needs to be affordable and informal to complement social occasions. There is no need for pretense in food.

Locations – Bundoo Khan USA

 

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