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Some dishes are just so perfect that you don’t need to mess with them. But, then of course you do. Çilbir is the perfect example of a dish that needs no further embellishment, alteration, or improvement. The quintessence of simplicity—tangy yogurt spiked with garlic, topped with a gently poached egg and drizzled with Aleppo pepper bloomed in some warm olive oil. There’s just about nothing that seems amiss with this picture. And yet… Sometimes you just can’t leave well enough

“When I was growing up, if it was Sunday, that meant aloo anday,” says Zainab Shah as she gathers the few basic ingredients for this most quintessentially Pakistani breakfast dish. Aloo anday as the name suggests (it literally translates to “potato-egg”) consists primarily of two main ingredients, eggs and potatoes. As she peels potatoes into a bowl of water, Shah amends her original assertion, admitting that nihari, the famed Pakistani braised lamb dish topped with fried on