suhaina

my younger sister's would be inlaws or can be inlaws are coming to see her for first time

what food or snakcs should we serve??

ideas please

what snacks did u server at the timeof your rishta?

WhateverFloatsUrBoat

samosa, kabobs, pakoras, chutney...that kind of stuff i guess

Maverick_27

i think pizza wud be better ............ with limo pani

Ira

Is it just a rishta coming to see her or would be inlaws? When i was going through this process we would do snack items like samosas and maybe puff pastry packets etc with cake. Nothing too fancy shmancy. I never liked this tea party approach anyways but i guess it gives you a chance to pretend to do something else while eyeing the girl.

Now if its her inlaws to be coming after the rishta pakka hona, i would do more than that: like baked chicken drumsticks/tikka, chapli/shami kabab perhaps, samosas, and some sort of meetha, perhaps mithai and cake both?

clothesmad

Make it more of a snack thing, samosa, kebabs, sandwiches etc, if InshaAllah it all goes well, there will be plenty more occasions where your going to have to entertain them........so leave the more tricky stuff for later

Aqls

^^right agree with you,few snacks are enough they are just coming to look her for the first time.

Masi Museebtay

Snack/tea time items like everyone suggested above...my mother made it a point not to included too much ready made stuff...simple but homemade is more appropriate I think.

Janat ki Talash

u r right Masi Jiiiiiiiiii

redvelvet

Are the "can be in-laws" going to stay only for tea-time?

In that case, for snacks you can include:

1) A variety of beverages for options such as chai and cold drinks (juice, soda)

2) Have a mix of sweet and namkeen snacks. The namkeen snacks can include finger sandwiches (you can make chicken and mayonnaise sandwiches or egg salad sandwiches), samosay, and shami kababs, and cholay chaat .

3) The sweet snacks can include:

_ a nice small and simple cake from the bakery (nothing fancy)
_ fruit chaat
_ a selection of cookies
_ desi sweet dish such as halwa or ras-malai

suhaina

thanx..
more ideas please..

AmorAmor

Makesure the food isnt too fiddly. You don't want mother in law to be to take a bite out of her samosa and accidently have bits fall from her mouth lol.

Things like pakoreh, spring roll samoseh, kebabs etc are a safe bet. BUT you don't want to do too much - save that for when the rishta has been agreed, and then you can cook a big feast to celebrate! I personally wouldn't go with sandwiches coz I think older folk prefer apna khana!

Serve drinks, along with the numerous snacks mentioned, and also have some sort of sweet to go with it - cakes, pastries, fruit salad etc

suhaina

right

jalebi121

Hey this is happening in my family too (Baat Paki). We are having a breakfast at our house but some people are arriving late so we are having both bfast and lunch items. This is our menu:

Drinks: chai, water, various juices. No soda (too early)

Food: fresh fruit, arabic salad (parsley/tomato/cucumber), halwa puri, cholay, aloo, biryani, galawat kay kebab.

we might be adding more items but that's what we have so far. we kept a mix of light and heavy items because some people don't like heavy breakfast.

nabz

jalebi...

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what are galawat kay kebab?

jalebi121

hey nabz, they are like "melt in your mouth" kebabs. . they have extra papaya added to the meat to make it soft.

djmi

3 savoury
2 sweet

Thats the general rule for most people. If your giving kebab, samosa and choley. Then in sweets have a butter cake and gulab jamuns.
simple.
Serve Chai and coffee. Some people drink either.