THE COLD WEATHER FOODS LIKE CHAPSHURRO WARM THE STOMACH AND THE HEART.
Chapshurro (or Chapshoro)
A unique, local cuisines, from Pakistan’s northern people groups (Gilgit Baltistan), you absolutely have to try is Chapshurro.
‘Chap,’ just means meat, and these wonderful hotplate cakes often contain yak meat. These cook on a large convex steel/iron plate, and are the perfect snack for a traveler when the weather starts to cool.
Seasoning them simply with onions and pepper, a sweet carrot, or maybe a small locally grown tomato, these will be the only vegetable ingredients. Using local species of wheat, the specific dough recipe, feeling, and consistency can vary widely from town to town.
This was one dish always highly recommended by locals throughout the Gilgit Baltistan Pakistan region.
Ingredients:
1 kg Beef mince
1 cup Onion
1 cup Tomatoes
1 & 1/2 tsp Green chilies
2 tsp Lemon juice
1 & 1/2 tbsp Crushed chilies
Salt to taste
1 tsp Coriander powder
1 tsp Cumin powder
1 tsp Ginger
1 tsp Garlic
2 cups Wheat flour
1/2 cup Green Coriander
Directions:
Take a bowl add wheat flour, a pinch of salt and knead a soft dough by adding water gradually.
Take a pan add oil, onion, ginger garlic paste and sauté.
Then add beef, tomatoes, coriander powder, cumin powder, salt, crushed chilies, green chilies and cook it well.
Add lemon juice and green coriander in last and cook.
Then divide the dough to equal parts, roll out and make round shape.
Then stuff beef in it and cook on a nonstick pan.