Charsi Tikka Recipes

Peshawar's most controversial and celebrated tikka — whole chicken marinated in little more than salt and cooked over high charcoal heat in mutton fat. No yoghurt, no colour, no masala. Named after the charas smokers who first popularised it on Namak Mandi food street.

Peshawar's most controversial and celebrated tikka — whole chicken marinated in little more than salt and cooked over high charcoal heat in mutton fat. No yoghurt, no colour, no masala. Named after the charas smokers who first popularised it on Namak Mandi food street.

Charsi Tikka

Charsi Tikka

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Charsi Tikka from Peshawar's Namak Mandi is the most audaciously simple chicken you will ever eat — just salt, a whisper of lemon, and the alchemy of charcoal heat and lamb tail fat. No food colouring, no marinade box, no yoghurt — just fire, fat, and a whole chicken that emerges crackling and golden. It will make you question everything you knew about flavour.

1h 10m medium

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