Chicken pieces in a tomato-rich sauce inside a metal karahi pan.

Chicken Karahi

Pakistan · South Asia

Short description
This tomato-rich chicken dish is cooked and often served in the same rounded pan that gives it its name.
Ingredients
Chicken cooked with tomatoes, ginger, garlic, green chiles, ghee or oil, coriander, cumin, garam masala, and cilantro.
Cultural note
It is associated with roadside restaurants, family dinners, and shared pans served with flatbread.
Common misconception
It is not a long-simmered curry; the sauce is often reduced quickly around the chicken.

image credit

Chicken Karahi in Pakistan.jpg

creator:
Kskhh
license:
CC BY-SA 4.0
modified:
Cropped and resized from Commons rendered file-page preview for Gochizu.

audio credit

voice:
marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
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OpenAI API Text to Speech
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AI-generated voice audio.