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Landhi (Dried Meat) Pulao — لانڈی پلاؤ

🍽️ Balochi ⏱️ Prep: 20 mins 🔥 Cook: 1 hr 15 mins 🍲 Serves: 5

Landhi is whole dried lamb, a Baloch winter tradition. Simmered and cooked with rice, it makes a deeply savoury cold-weather pulao.

Ingredients

  • 1 kg landhi (dried lamb), jointed
  • 3 cups rice, soaked
  • 2 onions, sliced
  • 1/2 cup oil or ghee
  • Whole spices
  • Salt (go easy — landhi is already salted)

Method

  1. Soak the landhi in water to soften, then boil until nearly tender.
  2. Fry onions in ghee, add the meat and whole spices, and brown.
  3. Add the reserved stock and rice; adjust salt carefully.
  4. Cook on dam until the rice is done. Rest and serve hot.