Dina Ávila/Eater Sophina Uong’s version of the Pakistani-Indian dish is low on prep work and big on bold, delicious flavor There are days when my husband and I are incredibly homesick for chicken karahi. When we lived in San Francisco we would order it every other week from Shalimar, a restaurant in the Tenderloin. Shalimar is one of those old-school, no-frills South Asian joints that is iconic because the food is so damn good and plentiful; its chicken karahi is no exception. The dish, which is made most popularly in India and Pakistan, is deeply comforting. Made of quickly braised chicken, fresh tomatoes, ginger, red chiles, turmeric, and garlic, it’s cooked in a karahi (sometimes spelled “kadai” or “korai”), a heavy, wide-mouthed pan that that resembles a wok. As much as we loved Shalimar’s chicken karahi (and its gosht karahi, made with goat) it was not the only game in town, or even the Tenderloin: There was also the version at Lahore Karahi, a restaurant owned by my husband’...