Indian food is an important part of any party. So give a good deal of time to planning the menu. Planning the menu would take into consideration a magnitude of factors. These include, your guests' tastes - their likes and dislikes or if they are allergic to a particular food, what's in season regarding the availability, the colour of the Indian dishes cooked. You also need to pay a certain amount of attention to the visual appeal, so make sure that all your dishes aren't the same colour. Also, the variety of flavours and textures in your food need to cater to the different palates of your guests. To be precise, the meal should be appetizing from its look to its taste. Also, remember to begin with lighter flavours, and then add bolder flavours with each course.
Here's presenting you a menu suggestion for your dinner party. You can alter the same according to your needs and tastes.
You could cook up a lavish four course Indian meal which includes
First Course - Appetizers and drinks
Take your pick from the suggested ones or plan your own.
For a vegetarian meal
Samosas, Peas cutlets or Paneer tikka, with coriander chutney. Along with this you could serve hot soups such as Tomato or Mushroom, or instant coolers like Aam pannah or fresh lime water.
For a non-vegetarian meal
Chicken seekh kabab or Chicken tikka, with coriander chutney. You could serve hot soup such as chicken soup, or a cooler like fresh lime soda or jal jeera.
Second Course
Salads, along with any Indian bread and vegetable. You could go for any of the below mentioned, or create your own.
For a vegetarian meal
Tomato, cucumber and radish salad. For the vegetable you could cook up Palak paneer, Chole palak or carrot, peas and potato vegetable. Serve this with rotis or naans.
For a non-vegetarian meal
Shredded cabbage, onion and capsicum salad. Prepare a curry dish such as fish curry, chicken curry or lamb palak and serve it with rotis or naans.
Third Course
A rice dish with your choice of raita Prepare from the following or any other according to your guests' preferences.
For vegetarian meal
Vegetable biryani or plain jeera rice with boondi raita or aloo raita
For non-vegetarian meal
Chicken biryani or mutton biryani with onion and cucumber raita or plain salty raita.
Fourth Course
Sweets or desserts. Choose from below mentioned or create your own...
For either vegetarian or non-vegetarian meal
You could take your pick from Gajar halwa, Rasgulla, Gulab jamun, Kulfi, fresh fruits with ice cream, to name a few.
