Pakistan is rich in cultural diversity and astonishing natural wonders. But delicious food recipes have become the identity of our country. Appetizing and mouth-watering dishes such as Nihari, Biryani and Haleem are a few of the favourite platters in our Greenland. Similarly, every household in Pakistan requires a cooking recipe expert that can offer them easy tips for cooking delightful food.
Youtube is the hub of several content creation ideas. Fortunately, Pakistan has those YouTubers who make life easy for people with their talent and tips. The list will be long if we share the channels of cooking experts in Pakistan. But here are the ten best food channels in Pakistan offering tons of quick and easy recipes.
1. Village Food Secrets
Let’s start the list with an easy and traditional village-style cooking recipe channel; Village Food Secrets. Mubashir Saddique, from Shahpur, Sialkot, created this channel in 2016. He uploads village, street and western food recipe videos with simple and handy cooking tools. Talking about the following and growth of this channel then, Mubashir is one of the first Pakistani Youtubers who showed the world that everything is possible with talent and great ideas. As of 2023, Village Food Secrets have 3.8 million subscribers and is considered Pakistan’s top traditional cooking channel.
Furthermore, you will find various effortless food recipes at Village Food Secrets. All credit goes to the creator’s humble gestures and simple cooking style. This channel also grabbed the attention of international media organisations such as BBC and Google, highlighting the success story of Mubashir Saddique to the masses.
2. Kitchen with Amna
This channel is the ultimate solution to the homemade kitchen cooking hurdles we face in our daily life. Kitchen with Amna has been sharing quick and simple cooking recipes for seven years and is followed by 4.3 million subscribers. From traditional homemade dishes to western food snacks, this channel provides excellent cooking methods for those who want to learn how to cook. The channel is owned by Bilal Riaz, who also manages the channel along with onscreen chefs Amna and Ayesha.
3. Food Fusion
Asad and Samira are a married couple who started this channel in 2016 and thrashed the barriers of adopted notions by our society. Such as, cooking is just for married women, and it is not righteous for both genders to work together. There is an inspiring story the couple has to share about their life and Youtube career. But the purpose of starting this journey together was to provide a platform where people can get delicious food recipes in under five minutes. Hence, their idea worked, and now their channel has more than 4 million subscribers, and they share cooking videos with excellent quality. Several Pakistani drama industry celebrities, for instance, Sara Khan and Sarwat Gilani, also join Food Fusion for monthly special videos.
4. Ijaz Ansari Food Secrets
With subscribers of more than 4.9 million, Ijaz Ansari Food Secrets is a trending channel in Pakistan for homemade recipes. Cook Ijaz Ansari has a strong teaching style of how to cook traditional Pakistani dishes with perfection. This channel was created just four years earlier after taking influence from other cooking channels, and now it has more subscribers than any other Youtube channel in Pakistan. The reason for trending on the platform is the convincing descriptive style of Ijaz Ansari which makes it easy for the audience to note the cooking recipes.
5. Ruby Ka Kitchen
If you miss the classical cookery television shows where we used to learn about various food varieties by acclaimed chefs, this channel Ruby will take you to the old times. The real treat of this channel is the humorous style of the host, who shares classical homemade cooking remedies along with tips. So, for Aasan and Mazedar, Pakistani and Indian recipes, visit the Youtube channel Ruby Ka Kitchen.
6. BaBa Food RRC
Chef Rizwan Chaudhary from Baba Food RRC has all the answers to everyday kitchen hassles. On his Youtube channel, he not only shares the food secret of Pakistani cuisines by also suggest how to keep them fresh. Moreover, this channel is also known for the recipes of native snacks and street food recipes. For instance, Dahi Baray, Samosa Chaat, and Halwa-Puri. It means Chef Rizwan has years of experience in cooking Pakistan’s cultural and local food. So, if you are in search of a cookery channel with tons of native dishes, then visit BaBa Food RRC.
7. Cooking With Sariya
This channel is hosted by Sariya and is filled with various international cuisines, including Asian, Chinese, Thai, Indian and Pakistani. Similarly, she tries to provide unchallenging ways of cooking your favourite meals in a short period of time. According to Sariya, cooking is her passion, and by looking at her videos, we can say that she tries innovative ways of cooking that save time and increase the flavour of food. She has a fan following of 1.3 million subscribers and uploads three videos every week.
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8. Yes I Can Cook
If you also think that you are not made for cooking stuff but want to master this art, Faiza Shah can suggest several tasty dishes with effortless cooking styles on her Youtube channel. Hence, you just have to follow her instructions and wait for the results. Yes, I Can Cook is a Youtube channel for those who are sick of long videos and just want to learn the recipes without dialogues. Faiza’s way of cooking is different from others, as most of her videos are about fast food and desserts. She started her Youtube career almost ten years earlier, and till now, her videos have gathered more than 260 million views.
9. Cooking with Kawish
It looks easy nowadays to find channels for homemade Pakistani dishes. But some locals want to taste the flavour of dhaba restaurant foods in their home-cooked dishes. So, for open-air restaurant food lovers, the Cooking with Kawish Youtube channel has many recipe videos to adopt outside restaurant taste into your lifestyle. This channel records the videos of local restaurant chefs and explains their own designed recipes, which takes the appetite for the food to another level.
10. Huma in the Kitchen
If you want to make quick meals but don’t know which dish will be the best, then Huma in the Kitchen Youtube channel has a playlist of suggestions for you. From dessert tutorials to Ramadan special dishes, Huma’s channel is packed with tutorial videos of how to make them in various styles. In simple terms, the purpose of her channel is to offer working ideas for cooking mouth-watering dishes in a shorter time. So, get various cookery recipes from her Youtube channel, which is followed by 2.2 million subscribers.
To Sum It Up
Cooking is an art and not just a duty for a specific gender. The world’s dynamics are changing gradually. So, we also must understand that every work is not limited to specific gender people. One can learn anything with the availability of infinite resources on the Internet.
So, this sums up the 10 best food channels in Pakistan which are influencing many households. Tell us your favourite one in the comment section below.
