I am hosting Iftar for first time and I want some ideas about iftar and dinner. Its going to be 30 adults and 9 kids iftar party. thanks
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Here is the menu from our Sunday night iftar dinner. We are actually booked all week so I’m going to be exposed to different menus almost every night.
This last iftar had the following appetizers:
Somasa
Pakoray
Mint chutney
Imli chutney
Chicken patties
Fruit chaat
Dahi bharay
For drinks they had strawberry lemonade and soda
Dinner was a simpler affair:
Chicken pulao
Burger macaroni
Alu gosht
Dahi bharay (again)
& salad
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For dinner main dishes what seems like a better option Chicken Biryani, Lasagna/ Pasta and Seekh Kabab Karahi OR Pea Pulao, Chicken Tikka, any Karahi and Lasagna/ Pasta.
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Chicken Biryani, Lasagna/ Pasta and Seekh Kabab
or
Pea Pulao, Chicken Tikka, any Karahi and Lasagna/ Pasta.
If you are doing biryani, I wouldn’t do any salan with it.
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If you have chicken biryani…then there’s no need to make chicken tikka. By seekh kabab karahi…do you mean seekh kababs in gravy? That would work. So you have a chicken rice dish, a harahi dish with different meat, and pasta dish. That’s fine.
Or you can have a vegetable salan like palak. So, then you menu would be: chicken biryani, vegetable salan, seekh kabab karahi, and a pasta dish. That’s pretty balanced too.
For iftar…keep it simple. You can make a fruit chaat, samosay or patties (pick one as both are the same thing), aloo ki tikkiyan or aloo cutlets. You could even add chana chaat or replace the tikkiyan with the chqna chaat so there is less frying/work for you.
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@redvelvet Thanks for iftar options I am thinking of going with fruit chaat, channa chaat, dahi baray, chicken patties, vegetable rolls, some chatni, drinks. For dinner I am thinking about chicken biryani, seekh kabab karahi, pasta, some vegetable dish and salad. thanks lusi and polished gems for your input too.
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I am having iftar for 30 people on Friday Insha ALLAH
here is what I have decided so far.
Green Chutney
Alubuhara chutney
Imli Chutney
Gool Guppa shell chaat
Fruit chaat
Roated masala aloo
Aloo Tikkis
Palak/mathi with lamb
Chicken Karahi
Paneer makhni
A Noodles/Pasta dish
Roasted chicken drum sticks
Roti/Naan
Normal green salad salad
Cream/Mayo salad
Fresh cream cake
Gaajar halwa served with ice cream
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OOh the menus aremouth watering! Can I get iftar invite pleej? :halo:
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Come and join me and teach me some new dishes for my next 3 iftars in the coming days 
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planning an iftar on sunday iA for a family of 3 adults,2 kids
Iftari:
Dates
Fruit Chaat
Pita Bread chaat (own recipe)
fried fish/potato wedges
mini pizza
Dinner:
chicken biryani
smoked chicken ginger
beef pepper steaks (cubed) - FKF recipe
red beans-green veggies salad
creamy potato-boiled eggs-capsicum salad
cucumber raita
naan
Dessert:
either pudding cake or chocolate lasagne
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Can I come too? 
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sureeee 
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Hosting an iftaar today Inshallah I’m keeping the iftaar heavy and dinner very light as there isn’t too much time between iftaar and dinner (Iftaar is 7 and dinner is 8:30 for most people) GS is giving me issues with my ‘enter’ key so I can’t list them but for iftaar: assorted samosa’s (Arabic, aloo, cheese and spinach), assorted pakora platter, soup, mini bun kebabs, chicken wraps, dahi baray. For dinner: korma, tala huwa gosht and ruz bukhaari.
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Sounds delicious but that dinner is not a light dinner.
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What’s ruz Bukhari?
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Lusi, it’s light compared to how Emirati’s and Arabs eat! They eat non-stop from iftaar till suhoor.
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^true !! 
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Love your menus proto
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Got another Iftar at my house on Friday
6 people this time. Can’t really decide what to make
have decided these so far
shanwari chicken karahi
naan/roti
masala baked fish
pappri chaat
Milkshake
what else can I add? Also what sweet dish to make?
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what is shanwari chicken karahi? can you post a recipe pls?