How to pronounce Tabaheg

Tabaheg is written تباہگ where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /təbɑːheɡ/. In plain English letters that is ta-BAH-heg, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Tabaheg?

Tabaheg is a main dish of Pakistan. Where it comes from: Balochistan. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are lamb and rice. It tastes savory and sour.

Where Tabaheg comes from

Tabaheg is one of 15 signature dishes of Pakistan on this map. See all dishes from Balochistan.

• Sajji سجی · Main dish · Balochistan

  Sajji is lamb or mutton, traditionally the leg, shoulder and back of a fat animal, salted with only a few spices, skewered and roasted slowly by an open fire or inside a tandoor whose mouth is sealed shut.

• Kaak کاک · Bread & pastry · Balochistan

  Kaak, also known as kurnoo and as pathar ki roti, "bread of stone", is a hard bread of the Baloch and Pashtun peoples.

• Nihari نہاری · Main dish · Karachi (from Old Delhi)

  Nihari is a stew of beef or mutton shank cooked slowly overnight with bone marrow and a spice mix, then thickened with flour into a rich, dark gravy.

• Chapli kebab چپلی کباب · Street food · Peshawar

  Chapli kebab is a wide, flat patty of minced beef or mutton with tomato, onion, green chilli, pomegranate seeds, crushed coriander seeds and maize flour, fried in animal fat.

• Sindhi biryani سندھی بریانی · Rice dish · Sindh

  Biryani, rice layered with meat and spices and steamed together, came to South Asia with Persian and Mughal influences.

• Chargha چرغہ · Main dish · Punjab

  Chargha is a whole chicken that is marinated, steamed and then deep-fried, and it comes from Lahore in Pakistan's Punjab.

Food of Pakistan

Dishes like Tabaheg in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Tabaheg:

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• Kaburga dolması · Main dish · Diyarbakır and Mardin, Türkiye

  Kaburga dolması is lamb ribs stuffed with rice, pistachios, almonds and spices, sewn up and cooked slowly in the oven.

• Mansaf منسف · Rice dish · Amman and Karak, Jordan

  Mansaf is lamb cooked in jameed, a sauce made from dried, salted sheep's or goat's yogurt, served on a large tray over thin shrak bread and a mound of rice, scattered with toasted almonds and pine nuts.

• Kacchi biryani কাচ্চি বিরিয়ানি · Rice dish · Dhaka, Bangladesh

  Kacchi biryani is a special form of biryani in which raw meat is cooked together with fragrant rice, ghee or oil and warm spices.