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Whats for Qurbani?
Ghat akhtar is near, so I was wondering if you guys have decided whats going to be the centerpiece of cutting ceremony..ghowa, mekha, gadda or chillay.
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Re: qurbani see this link from sunnipath. qa.sunnipath.com ID=2934& CATE=415
about zabihah meat, or the slaughtering process you mean mj?
Question guys is it (ferz) only on married people or it's more like affordability thing?
This is an Alton Brown recipe, but in Pakistan, they just use salt and pepper to season the meat. If you are going to make the effort, might as well make a larger batch and store them for later.
2 pounds red meat (such as top round steak, flank)
Brine:
2/3 cup Worcestershire sauce
2/3 cup soy sauce
2 teaspoons ground black pepper
2 teaspoons onion powder
1 teaspoon liquid smoke
1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1 tablespoon honey
Place the meat in the freezer for 1 hour, so that it will be easier to cut.
Slice the meat with the grain as thin as humanly possible.
Mix brine ingredients right in a resealable plastic bag (placing the bag inside a large plastic container will make this easier.)
Place meat strips in brine. Move the meat around so the marinade is evenly distributed around it. Seal bag, working out as much air as humanly possible.
Lay bag flat in the plastic container and refrigerate for 3 to 6 hours.
Then place the meat slices onto baking dishes or sheets in a single layer. Bake at 150-200 degrees for 8-10 hours (leave the oven door partially oven so it will dehydrate faster).
We had some Tajik muhajir neighbours in Peshawar and they brought us a dish called Badakhshani pullao (I think) and it had dried meat cooked in it, and man that was the best pullao ever. I have tried to find halal beef jerky here but no luck.
thats dried meat. back in the days this was the only method used to preserve meat. The practice still exists and the meat is very tasty. We did that a lot in loyee akhtar.
We never tried it in our backyards. We had a cow and goats at one point but took them to a slaughter house to do the zabihah. I miss grass fed meat, thats the best. I am seriously considering finding a farm that has a pasture where the cows etc eat grass and walk around normally.
A few years back halal turkey was not available...so my uncle went on a turkey hunt...we manage to fine some except we received then alive in a cage. It was really sad to see them go...we even named them
Subhanallah we do our sheep motherland style at slaughter houses in the boondocks.
You know, one of my buddies from India was telling me that his family would buy the goat/sheep before akhtar and keep it in their house. They would treat it like a pet and became attached to it. So when akhtar time rolled around they would become depressed because they had to kill their new friend!
Khan: Sabri also has a location out in the suburbs as well, but that location SUCKS!
my father got us a sheep a week before akhtar in Islamabad. we were so excited and took the animal to the baam pa sar, and we started playing and chasing it. So guess what? it jumped off the building.
we never did any qurbani here, always sent money back home, but this year we are thinking of doing things a little different. A cousin of mine got a job with UN in Afghanistan. Probably will send the money to him so he can do the qurbani for us and distribute the meat among poors. InshaAllah khair!
personally, I am still considering my charg for akhtar.
I think it was in 2004 we decided to slaughter the goat motherland style. To make a long story short--slaughtered it in our back yard and hung it from a tree, skinned it and all. Then we cooked it katawi style......later in the day cops showed up at he door saying they received a complaint blah blah blah.
But man goam meat can smell.
My worst story was when I was about 12, our mekha (buffalo) broke the rope and took off. All the mesharan were running after it and eventually they cornered it and had to shoot it in the head, because on the way that buffalo had seen a couple of other qurbanis so it knew what was coming. Man, bringing meat buckets from a mile away is NOT FUN.