Ramadan Menu!

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Ramadan is the month that brings bundle of blessings and gazillion reasons of joy. It is the month that teaches us peace, harmony, unity, brotherhood and patience. As we all are entangled in our daily routine so much that we can’t take out time to have dinner or lunch with family, dinner and lunch are farfetched, we hardly take out time for tea or supper and the 11 months pass by, following the same routine but there is no time month where our main aim is to correct our lifestyle and bring it back on track. This month is popularly known as ‘Ramadan Kareem’.

Ramadan is the month of spirituality which comes up with a unique food menu. This is the blessing of Ramadan that our kitchens, houses and refrigerators are diffused with the mouth watering fragrance of different yummy dishes and healthy food items before a week. The lady of the house prefers to cook sehri and iftar items before Ramadan and freeze them into the refrigerator in order to save every minute. Because kitchen is a place where work never ends and everyone wants to spend more and more time in reciting Quran or praying so the smart ladies complete their work before Ramadan and at the Sehri and Iftar time, they just take out the frozen item and serve it hot

Hmmmm…..let’s talk about the sehri menu, paratha! Even the one who never eats paratha the whole year, he/she must want one in sehri. A lot of people prefer different flavors of parathas’ in sehri i.e alu, piyaz, keema and gobi etc.  Paratha is a multi layered roti which is garnished with butter or ghee, now you can actually imagine how much healthy it is. Along with parathas the traditional dinner items are usually served in sehri; koftay, nehari, paye, kabab and maggas etc. After 1 or 2 weeks, people usually skip dinner and have all the dinner items in sehri. After having a complete course of stomach filling stuff, now it’s the turn of sweet dish. Khajla and pheeni are the traditional sweet dishes of Ramadan that are specially served in sehri, dipped in milk which tastes yummy. Moreover, Yogurt to ease stomach from burning and khajoors for filling stomach for long time is also consumed.

So it was all about sehri, now it’s the turn of iftar. Iftar is usually based on hi-tea snacks: keema or alu bhari kachori, alu or keema samosay, chicken or vegetable roll, wonton, bread roll, burgers or sandwiches, channa chaat, fruit salad, dahi baray, alu, piyaz or palak ke pakoray with sprinkled chaat masala and ketchup. This whole course meal is served with liquid or milk drinks. However, khajoor is used to break the fast.

These all are the blessings of Ramadan, we spend a whole day without eating bread or drinking a drop of water and at the end of the day we are sitting on a  filled dastarkhun or table which is decorated with different food items. Allhumdulliah!