Snacks not to miss during winters in Pakistan. When the winds get chilly and the nights get cold, you should stock-up these snacks and enjoy the season.
Snacks not to miss during winters in Pakistan. When the winds get chilly and the nights get cold, you should stock-up these snacks and enjoy the season. Especially if you’re in Karachi, this is some stuff that you’d easily find on the road-side too and can munch while enjoying the chilly night breeze.
DRY FRUITS
This must be the first one to show up on the list of ‘snacks not to miss during winters in Pakistan’. Although dry fruits are a great source of proteins, vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber, and an ideal substitute for high-calorie snacks and we should be consuming them through-out the year but, they are a must during the winters, as they help to keep us warm during the season. Eat them roasted or as it is. Pistachios, cashews, almonds, dried apricots, and peanuts are some of my favorites out of the huge variety of dry fruits nature has to offer.
GAJAR KA HALWA
No one can ignore a steaming hot plate of freshly cooked Gajar ka Halwa, topped with your favorite dry fruits in this season. This is something one should have at least once in winter. Usually, people prefer getting it made freshly at home while others love buying it from different places serving it in the city, like Sohny Sweets, Rehmat-e-Shereen, or United bakery.
SEAFOOD
This is the best season to eat seafood, a hot piping plate of fish and some prawns is what I love. If you’re in Karachi then Rashid’s Seafood near Kemari is a place everyone’s been trying these days. But it is actually worth it too. Do give their Mushka fish a try and you’d love it.
STEAMED SHAKARKANDI (SWEET POTATO)
If you’re from Karachi and haven’t tried steamed shakarkandi, the carts on the roads have to offer, then are you even a Karachite? In this season you might find these carts on every other road, steaming sweet potatoes by keeping them next to coal fire, peeling and chopping them into pieces and sprinkling them with some chatpatta masala, and trust me there must be no-one who tried it and didn’t like it.