DISH RESEARCH · Side dish
Borani Kadu
Pumpkin simmered in spiced tomato sauce and layered with garlic yogurt.
About Borani Kadu
Mirriam Seddiq's borani kadoo combines tender pumpkin with an onion and tomato sauce. It belongs to the Afghan restaurant dish family she describes, with different renditions using sweetening, frying or simmering.
Garlic, ginger, turmeric, coriander and cumin season the pumpkin. A garlic yogurt sauce adds lemon, dill and mint, with sour cream and kashk offered as optional additions.
Yogurt forms a thin layer beneath the pumpkin and is drizzled over it again. Chopped parsley finishes the serving platter, and cooked rice accompanies the dish.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Milk.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Borani Kadu
Mirriam Seddiq's Afghan pumpkin borani with garlic yogurt.
- PumpkinBase
- Cooking oilCooking mediumIngredient page not linked
- OnionAromatic
- TomatoesBase
- GarlicAromatic
- GingerAromatic
- Tomato pasteSeasoning
- WaterLiquid
- SaltSeasoning
- Black pepperSeasoning
- TurmericSeasoning
- CorianderSeasoning
- CuminSeasoning
- Red pepper flakesSeasoning
- YogurtLiquid
- Sour creamLiquid · Optional
- KashkSeasoning · Optional
- Lemon juiceSeasoning
- DillAromatic
- MintAromatic
- ParsleyFinish
- Cooked riceAccompaniment
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Pumpkin: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual51 genuinely offered pumpkin selected over author-used butternut30; no invented restoration.
- Cooking oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual53/83 unidentified oil.
- Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual55/84.
- Tomatoes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual57/85.
- Garlic: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual59 explicitly named fresh garlic/ginger alternative plus own yogurt60; consolidated full allocations, not opaque paste reconstruction.
- Ginger: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual59 fresh ginger explicitly offered beside minced garlic, selected over prepared paste.
- Tomato paste: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual61/85.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual63/87-88 main sauce and linked yogurt66/79.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Main65 and linked62/79.
- Black pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Main67/86.
- Turmeric: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual69, form not explicitly specified.
- Coriander: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual71 generic named coriander seasoning; form unprovided, broad mapping only.
- Cumin: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual73 form unprovided.
- Red pepper flakes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual75 first offered red-pepper-flake option retained over Aleppo; listed but method placement unprovided.
- Yogurt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Direct own linked sauce54/79 dairy yogurt.
- Sour cream (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Direct own sauce56/80 optional.
- Kashk (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Own sauce27/58/80 optional Afghan dried yogurt/sour-milk product; full product formula unknown.
- Lemon juice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Own sauce64/79.
- Dill: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Own sauce68/79, fresh or dry both author reply160; exact form remains unspecified.
- Mint: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Own sauce70/79, form unprovided.
- Parsley: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual96 first offered parsley chosen over cilantro.
- Cooked rice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual97 rice chosen from rice/Afghanbread/pita alternatives; cooking formula and variety unprovided.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Afghanistan
- AfghanistanCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Afghan Cuisine
- Afghan CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.