About Handi

Pakistani home recipes in Urdu and English: karahi, biryani, nihari, haleem, daal, sabzi, BBQ, breakfast and desserts. Servings scaler, cups and chamach measures, step timers, a what-can-I-cook search and a weekly meal planner with a shopping list.

Why Handi

Most Pakistani recipes online are videos, or pages buried in ads, in one language only, with measures nobody in Pakistan uses. Handi is a fast, clean library of home recipes in both Urdu and English, measured in cups, chamach and pao, with a timer on every step and the tools a family kitchen needs: a weekly menu, a shopping list and a way to cook from what is already in the fridge.

How the recipes are written

All 167 recipes are original, written for Handi from Pakistani home-cooking knowledge: no text, recipes or photos are copied from other sites, books or videos. Each one is checked for quantities, times, heat and step order before it goes up, and for an Urdu version that says exactly what the English says. Where families cook a dish differently, the recipe picks one clear version and mentions the others.

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Pictures

The dish illustrations are drawn in code for Handi. We do not use stock or copied food photos.

Data sources

Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, weekly SPI: prices, week ended 29 Oct 2026
USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy (April 2018), public domain: nutrition values (public domain)

How the estimates are worked out

Who makes it

Handi is made by DanixSoft, a software studio in Lahore. It is free to use. To keep it free, the site may in future show clearly marked advertising and, where useful, links to online grocery shops; recipes will never be changed to suit an advertiser.