Hope you all are good and enjoying your lives. Today I'm back with my participation to this amazing contest organized by Steem for Nigeria Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 5 Week 4 - Special Food For Dinner Parties. It's an interesting topic and will get new special foods for dinner party from different regions of the world.

I would like to invite @aaliarubab, @faran-nabeel, @sailawana for the contest.

Let's begin with the contest topic.

Suggest special food that will suit special occasions like dinner parties.

There are many delicious and presentable foods for dinner parties, and we decide foods according to what kind of guests are coming, or how many guests will be at dinner, or our budget, and many more, but one thing is compulsory in our Pakistani dinner parties, and that is Biryani.

In our tradition, Biryani is the main food on every occasion, from family gatherings to wedding dinners. If we made only biryani for a dinner (a single dish), it would be a complete dinner menu.

There are many different types of biryani, such as Sindh biryani, Bombay biryani, Hyderabadi biryani, Tikka biryani, Zafrani biryani, polao biryani, and so on. Their names and tastes differ from place to place, and their tastes differ slightly due to differences in ingredients.

Karachi's biryani is the most popular biryani in Pakistan. All types of biryani can be made with all types of meat: chicken, beef, mutton, fish, and prawn. This is the food I think is loved by everyone.

What are the health benefits?

Biryani is a complete meal having good health nutritional values. It is made of meat, Yougart, spices, some vegetables and rice. You can see how many varieties of different sources of nutrients can we get from biryani.

Rice gives you carbohydrates, protein can be taken from the meat while vegetables, Yougart and spices give you minerals and vitamins. In short its a complete meal in every aspect.

Why have you chosen this particular food for this occasion?

I have discussed above it's most popular food in Pakistan. In my family it's one of the favorite food. Specially we made biryani when some guests arrive at home, on every kind of parties, on demand of family, on birthdays, eid festivals, other family events and weddings.

Have you prepared this food before? Name at least 5 major ingredients that are used to prepare this special food whether you have prepared it before or not.

Yes I have prepared it many times. If you believe my today's dinner is biryani that was on demand of my husband.

I have shared 3 or 4 times it's recipe before at steemit.

Biryani is made up of many ingredients here are five.

Meat/Chicken :

You can use beef/Mutton /chicken according to your choice. It's main ingredient of biryani. Proportion of meat should be equal or more than rice to get tasty biryani.

Rice :

For biryani good quality of rice is used. Beauty of biryani is full grain of rice. Different types of rice are available for biryani.

Onions :

Another essential ingredient for majority of recipes.

Yougart :

Yougart gives perfect taste to biryani

Red chili powder :

It enhance taste of every food.

Why does food add beauty to special occasions?

Food is real fun of life and when we enjoy it with our friends and family it's double the fun. So all gathering where food is good becomes good automatically while those gathering having no food becomes boring.

Many of us arrange our best possible foods for our events to make them memorable. We actually celebrate every moment with some special food.

In celebration of our festival, besides other preparations we made special foods for festivals. Like on eid we made SHEER KHURMA with different foods. If we celebrate birthdays with cake we arrange other food too.

For every gathering /event /party food is responsible for making it special.

That's all from me. Hope you enjoy while reading.