After
my neighbour had her daughters dholki at home and a second party at a restaurant,
my other neighbour (Z) and I decided to host her third dholki at our house. We would not be able to attend her wedding in Pakistan
and both being good friends with her wanted to send her off with our love and
good wishes. Plus neither of us can
resist good food or a party…
I
got my daughters and Harlequin Sister to help set up the décor and help fill
party gift bags. Harlequin was kind enough to pick up fresh strands of fragrant
jasmine flowers the day before and make bracelets for all of the guests.
My
neighbour Z and I split the cooking between us, Z is an amazing cook so took
the big things: chicken biryani, lamb kofte curry, dahi bhallay, channa chaat
and zarda (sweet, fragranced yellow rice). I got responsibility for the tandoori
chicken, salad and green chutney.
The
biryani turned out a treat:
I
got lots of people asking for the recipe for the chicken and green chutney
(chicken recipe I used was this one and the green chutney recipe is here).
My
neighbours zarda (the sweet yellow rice) really was good. I don’t go for traditional
South Asian sweets usually, but this was not overly sweet, had a scent and
light taste of orange zest and was full
of nuts. I really enjoyed it.
There
were lots of other desserts too: guests bought two types of cake (chocolate and
light sponge), mithai (Indian sweets) and jalebi.
Once
the guests were done eating we passed out the floral bracelets, there were
selfies galore and the dhol drum was rolled out.
The rest of the night was for singing and joking. Usually that goes on late into the night, but
we gave up after a short while and everyone sat around, ate more dessert and
chatted.
It
was a nice evening, there was plenty of food for the next few days and my
neighbour and her daughter were happy with all the love that was shown them.
Happily
she got married yesterday, may Allah (SWT) bless her with long years of happily
married life insh’Allah.
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