How do you plan iftar parties when the iftar is so late in the night ?
Do you keep an extensive dinner menu only or only chatpata stuff and no dinner or both?
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These iftar parties are against the very basic principle of fasting - as people indulge in overheating and wasting food as I have seen in Pakistan.
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Apparently everyone on my FB is going to super huge iftar parties where the host has like 20 diff dishes
seeing so much mehnat is overwhelming
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Depending on how many people come over. Once i had a total of 14 people. My menu was
Roof azfa drink
Samose/pakore with chutney
Dinner-
Naan
Salad
Butter chicken
Gosht korma
Palak
Desert-
Fruit and cake trifle
Chai
Whenever i host a dinner, whether iftar or not, i like to keep a variety of some meat dishes, some veggie. I normally never do desert, but this time i found a good recipe for it and thought why not.
And because the fash opens so late at night, i start prepping the day before so i dont have to do so much the day of.
I've also seen people host iftars where there are over 6-7 main dishes, 5+ apps
Ive also seen iftars where around 6 apps were served, and 1 main dish for dinner.
So, it reallllllly depends on the host
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Most iftars I have been to are like@akaprincess . I didn't have fruit chaat at mine and heard someone complaining.
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I do both, but obvs no extensive dinner menu list.
I held an iftar just a few days ago (6 adults 5 children), and for the iftar itself we had pakoray, keema samosay, chicken rolls and chicken puff pastry patties, as well as fruit chaat and lemonade. When everyone had nibbled a bit on everything, we prayed namaz and in the meantime I had stuff ready for 2 pizzas. I made one chicken pizza though, along with taco cups and bang-bang shrimp. The taco cups and shrimp were more like appetizers and the one chicken pizza was enough for all of us. It worked out perfectly. The only thing I had left over was pakoray and a couple of taco cups. I ended up making pizza today with the extra ingredients.
I don't think chawal, salans, kababs, naan etc work for when fasts are so long and the time to eat is so short. A simple iftar with one main item later is a good menu.