Aryan Cuisine

  Chikar cholay is an Urdu language word, the word chikar means ‘mud’ or mash, while choley or channe means chickpeas. This dish is also known as “Chikar Channe”. In Pakistan, it is common as breakfast, but desi people eat it with paratha (oily chapati), but many of these people eat it with Nan (made with sourdough). This dish is very rich in nutritional diets as well as healthy diets. It has many benefits for any sick people or also for whom which have many diseases like diarrhea etc. It is a traditional Punjabi dish. You can make it on your own instead of going to buy from the hotel. This dish is available at many restaurants either local or famous, many hotels, dhabas, etc. For making chikar choley at best quality and flavor, soak the chickpeas overnight and then boiled it at early in the morning because of this it takes much taste and aroma and much softer than before. Traditional Chikar Choley According to legend, when the Mughal Emperor Shahjahan was imprisoned by his son Aur...

Haleem is traditionally slow cooked overnight, while two to three people are required to continuously stir it. True to the dishes’ cooking time, ‘Haleem’ in Arabic means ‘patient”. The lentils, rice and the meat and spices are cooked separately. Thereafter they are combined and pounded together to achieve a unique paste-like consistency. Lastly, it is garnished with nuts, berista (caramelized onion), herbs like coriander and mint, green chilies and lemon juice. The word Halim comes from the Arabic language meaning shredded meat. Halim is a very popular food in the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Pakistan/Indian subcontinent. There are many varieties of Halim based on different regions. Persian Haleem is different from the Haleems served in the Arabic countries, Same like in Lahori is different from Karachi or Kashmiri. About a thousand years ago, the Alawites used to cook Haleems only on sacred nights, and by morning they would hand out the food they had prepared to people. This ac...