I will make it like this: I’ll write you a kind of protocol of the procedure at the beginning, and then – for your archives – a conventional cooking instruction afterwards.
This time Tahir cuts the peeled ginger bulb into matchstick-sized cubes, the pieces must be so small because the ginger does not boil away, as in the previous dish [Pakistani Lamb with Yogurt], but remains in the sauce.
He halves the onions one more time and cuts them into the same slices as before. He peels the garlic and sautées it whole with the onions and ginger another time, but this time he uses 80 to 100 grams of light butter. Tahir swears by R*m*, in Rawalpindi he would use ghee, which corresponds to the local clarified butter called B*t*r*s.
After sautéing, Tahir turns the temperature down again and lets the saucepan stew dark gold for twenty minutes at rest.
However, the onion mixture must not brown properly, because otherwise everything together will taste only like onions. In the meantime, Tahir peels six medium-sized potatoes and cuts them into four to six pieces, depending on their size. Likewise, he washes and cleans the cauliflower and divides it into large roses. The stalk he cuts into half-centimeter cubes.
In the meantime, the onion mixture has turned nice and golden, and the garlic is now soft. Tahir takes a kitchen spatula and crushes the cloves a tiny bit. Tahir has a jar with an eighth