LAHORE:
Parathay for Sehri and an oily samosay-pakoray filled Iftar is prone to get monotonous if you are going to have it every single day. With half of Ramazan already spent consuming this never-changing menu, one’s tastebuds’ enjoyment of this blessed month is seemingly disappearing. Not only is it getting boring, but it’s taxing on your body to constantly consume the same food.
The Express Tribune ventured out to Lahore-based restaurants to discover if they have any interesting Sehri and Iftar deals in store.
Sehri
Refrain from filling yourself with heavy oily parathay at 4am, and resort to something lighter in nature. The Sehri menu at Café Upstairs is definitely worth noting. They excel in preparing continental egg dishes such as frittatas and rancheros (a Mexican dish served with baked beans and bread), adding that extra zing to your Sehri. Other interesting dishes include crispy tortillas layered with salsa and guacamole topped with a succulent egg along with thin crust pizzas, for those morning pizza-lovers. However, if you are still keen on filling your stomach up with heavy desi food, then they serve dishes such as nihari and a typical halwa puri breakfast
as well. So you can take your pick between light Mexican food or a heavy desi cuisine to keep your stomach filled throughout the day.
Iftar
Iftar served at any restaurant or in the household has remained constant and rather traditional over the years. Samosay, pakoray, dahi bhalay (similar to dahi barhay) and fruit chaat are four essential items without which, Iftar is incomplete. Cosa Nostra, an Italian restaurant, brings innovation to the usual Iftari by adding unique and unconventional food items to the menu. Starting from appetisers such as their mouth-watering cheese sticks and fresh antipesto salad, an Iftar at Cosa Nostra will definitely succeed in tantalising your taste buds. The restaurant stays true to its Italian roots by offering traditional Italian salads with feta cheese and mangoes while maintaining chicken escalopes, beef served in pepper sauce and various pastas on their main menu. Order their fresh guava juice to wash it all down. And to end the perfect Iftar, devour their famous dark chocolate cherry bomb cake or if you still happen to be in your summer mangoes phase, gulp down a slice of their mango cheesecake.
Indulge in a different experience this Ramazan with the mouth-watering menus offered by these restaurants.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 7th, 2012.
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Whatever is tasty to the tongue is harmful to the health. Oil, spices, sweets, non-veg items are not contributing to health. Instead everything required to our healthy body is available in vegetables and cereals.
Absolutely a State's dilemma I am agree with somosa pakora Lust highlighted!!I have read almost all the comments,some one said top above"they are cheap"no not really,they cost you much more expensive than a top notch continental breakfast!Routine heavy fudge of these worst fried snakes on the earth with full of spices and oil,your next stop is city hospital.Your stomach says no more!!(Reference: DOCTOR OF THIS EARTH) Pakistani food can be done in much better way by evolving it with a touch of latest culinary techniques,but it really needs to be evolve and has to be done in nutritional aspects of food.
Taste of our Desi food is something which is unique, you will never have such satisfaction when you have continental breakfast or Mexican breakfast. Halwa puri, paratha, aomlet, lassi, they are our identity.
but the taste and feel with desi food u have is unmatchable
I can tell you Pakistani food is the best in the world. If cooked properly it can be nutritious too. Can't even think of having characterless Mexican food in the morning, please. Would do anything for a good old fashined Lahori breakfast!
obviously desi food is cheap.
and Halwa puri is not oily?