Breakfast dawat anyone???

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Princess1983 July 2, 2011, 5:49pm 1

How many of you have either been to a breakfast dawat or hosted one? What did you cook or eat? Was thinking of hosting one for a special occasion.So far i was thinking aloo parathas, dum keema and chai. Any other ideas?

STA July 2, 2011, 5:51pm 2

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never been to any breakfast dawat.

but obviously, you can go with halwa puri thing

blessed2006 July 2, 2011, 8:31pm 3

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breakfast dawat always ends on dinner or lunch.

Sheal July 2, 2011, 8:51pm 4

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chanay and halwa poori , nihari , paay :)

miss_adorable July 2, 2011, 9:41pm 5

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Yes we had one at our place...
Its usually brunch.
Anyway we had halwa, puri, channay, aloo, parathay, dahi. then we had toast, jam, butter, milk, cereal. Since we had families with kids... And depends what ur guests like.

dosa_chick July 3, 2011, 1:02pm 6

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I had one at home today, for my inlaws, my sis in laws's inlaws were in town, so I got double inlaws dose :)

I find nashta to be the best time to entertain because then you have time to clean up and relax during the day..
I made potatos latkas, spanish omlette, qeema, and homemade bread. Pancakes for desert and kids, my SIL insisted tha she will bring something so she brought halwa, chane, pooris. So we had really good nashta ended with chai...

I have done puratha nashta too, made paneer, qeema, vegetable, aalo, etc wale purathes...

dosa_chick July 3, 2011, 1:03pm 7

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oh we also had nihari, lacha puratha and naan nashta few times..

Chicken_Biryani July 3, 2011, 2:03pm 8

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One of the times I hosted the nashta dawat I had the following menu planned , this was a buffet setting and worked out really well , since it catered to every age group :

Egg Variety:
Half fried

Omelette
Scrambled Eggs

Sammiches :
Boiled egg and mayo sandwich
Kabab sandwich
cheese sandwich

Bread & Bakery Selection:
Croissants ( Plain and Chocolate ones)
English Muffins
Pancakes
Crumpets
White bread, wheat bread and seeded bread

Choice of Cereals

Choice of Jams , butter, Peanut butter, chocolate spread and cinnamon spread

Choice of Drinks :
Warm Drinks , English Tea, Flavoured Tea and Coffee
Juices

Desi Choice:
Halwa Poori
Taftans
Haleem
Paratha

KKF July 3, 2011, 2:11pm 9

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**back home, we get invited to or invite friends and relatives over to one of the following type of nashtas:

*-lavish nashta* [paraaTha, Halwa, sabzii, malaaii, lassii, gosht kii koii haanDii, shaamii kabaab, orange juice, chai]

-nihaarii/paaye naashta with naan****
-jalebii/pooRii naashta:**** garma garam jalebii, khaTTe aaloo kii sabzii, pooRiyaaN, chai, lasii

*-western* [pancakes, stuffed omelet, OJ, coffee/tea etc] :)**

miss_adorable July 3, 2011, 2:24pm 10

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Sounds yummy!

sheyn July 3, 2011, 2:32pm 11

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**Why din’t I get an invite :pcg:

When’s the next Nashta Dawaat **

Chicken_Biryani July 3, 2011, 2:49pm 12

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Sheynie , coz you were on a diet then

apple_blossom July 3, 2011, 6:14pm 13

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cb u rock

Reha July 4, 2011, 5:53pm 14

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Paratha
Omelet
Chanay
Halwa
Bhuna qeema

Assorted bagels
Cream cheeses of different varieties
Bakes beans
Egg salad

Hadeel July 4, 2011, 7:27pm 15

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Oh my I've never been invited to a breakfast dawat. Sounds fun when you actually have breakfast which i don't but still everything sounds yummy!!

What is the time one has to give for such dawats?

Chicken_Biryani July 4, 2011, 7:34pm 16

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Hadeel, Breakfast dawats are mostly done on weekends, normally takes an hour or two of prep before the dawat … and you should be easily done with the guests by midday

Hadeel July 4, 2011, 7:40pm 17

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Just an hour or two for so many things? 0_0
Isn't that like impossible? Too much to make in too little time, keeping in mind that everything needs to be fresh and warm!!

The timing sounds perfect though, one can rest in the remaining part of the day.

Chicken_Biryani July 4, 2011, 7:50pm 18

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Yup hadeel, The best bit about the nashta dawats is that most of the stuff wont need cooking !

The ones that do, like for example, halwa poori, haleem etc will not take more then an hour to prepare … andaa’s take just about 15 -20 minutes to prepare ..

The biggest and the only challenge is to keep every thing crispy and warm … I distinctly remember running around like a headless chicken try to keep hot things hot and crispy and cool things cool :hinna:

Hadeel July 4, 2011, 7:56pm 19

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Hmmm. I didn't know Haleem could be prepared in just an hour!?? :S

We once made Halwa poori's at home for a dawat, the poori's took good one and a half hour .. but we had like 40 people over!

Yeah the cold and warm challenge is difficult to handle otherwise all your mehnat goes to waste =(

Mirch July 4, 2011, 9:25pm 20

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When we were new in this city where there are limited number of desi folks whenever we wanted to have party at our home for dinner people would have already been invited somewhere else so we hosted a few nashta/brunch parities and that gave us inroads into the community.