The holy festival of Eid al-Adha or the “Festival of Sacrifice” is just upon us. This festival is celebrated on the 10th day of Dhu al-Hijjah, the 12th month of the Islamic calendar. Also known as the Greater Eid or Qurban Bayarami. This festival also marks the end of the Hajj pilgrimage. 

This is the second Islamic festival of the year following Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan, also known as the holy month of fasting. Eid al-Adha is celebrated to honor the willingness of Prophet Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice everything for Allah and the sacrifice of the lamb.   

How to Prepare Dawat for Bakra Eid?  

On the day of Eid al-Adha, Muslims worldwide sacrifice a goat in the way of Allah. Then, this sacrificed animal is shared with the needy or poor; family, and friends. 

Hence, you will find plenty of lazeez Bakra Eid recipes on Eid ul Adha. However, planning for Eid recipes can be critical as festivals bring hectic schedules with them. And preplanning can help you assemble a delicious and enjoyable menu related to the occasion. 

The best menu for this auspicious festival is to design a four-course meal, and you should include Eid recipes like: 

  • High protein sides like a kabab or tikka
  • High-carb sides like roti and curry or any baked dish
  • The rice-based main course such as biryani
  • Dessert

Let’s see which Bakra Eid recipes can make your dawat and this festival more delicious for you and your family! 

Special Eid al-Adha Dawat Recipes 

Try these khushnuma Eid recipes and ooze your family and friends with unique flavors and mesmerizing aromas! These recipes will make your Eid brimming with fantastic flavors: 

  • Breaded Chops
  • Shami Kabab Recipe
  • Mutton Nihari Recipe
  • Bihari Botti
  • Awadhi Gosht Khurma Recipe
  • Yakhni Pulao Recipe   
  • Sheer Khurma Recipe

Breaded Chops

Mutton chops cooked in hot sauce and soy sauce, coated with bread crumbs, and then fried until golden brown – these breaded chops are going to be the next favorite Bakra Eid recipes of your family and friends. Crispy crust and tender insides will ensure that you have a perfect start to your Eid dawat.

Breaded Chops
Breaded Chops

Quick Stats

Prep time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Servings: 4 serves

Ingredients

  • 750g Chops (lamb/goat)
  • 1/4 cup hot sauce
  • 2 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp ginger paste
  • 4 tbsp white Vinegar
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp red chili powder

For the batter

  • 1/2 cup self-raising flour
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp red chili powder
  • Bread crumbs, as required

Method to Prepare

  • Add chops to a large bowl.
  • Add hot sauce, soy sauce, ginger paste, white vinegar, salt, and red chili powder to it.
  • Then, add 1 to 1/2 cup of water.
  • Cook them on slow flame for about an hour. Cook until all the extra juices are evaporated.
  • Transfer them to a plate and let them cool.
  • Now, take a bowl and add self-rising flour, salt, red chili powder, and water to make a thin batter.
  • Now, dip the chops into the batter then transfer them to bread crumbs.
  • Coat them well and slide them into the fridge for half an hour. It will allow the coating to set nicely on them.
  • Fry them in hot oil until golden and crispy.
  • Serve them immediately and enjoy!

Shami Kabab Recipe

It is time for you to make one of the heartiest and most satisfying recipes for your starter with these amazing Shami Kababs. Delicious fried patty full of unique flavors and spellbinding aroma – try these Shami kebabs this Eid and ooze your family and friends.  

Bakra Eid Recipes
Shami Kabab

Quick Stats:

  • Prep Time: 20 minutes 
  • Cooking Time: 45 minutes 
  • Servings: 25 Kababs 

Ingredients:

For Shami Kabab Spice Mix:

  • Red chili powder, one teaspoon 
  • Cloves, five  
  • 2-inch cinnamon, broken
  • Big black cardamom, one-piece
  • Black pepper, one teaspoon 
  • Bay leaf, one 
  • Coriander seeds, one teaspoon 
  • Cumin, one teaspoon 
  • Salt, one teaspoon

For Cooking Meat:

  • 500-gram boneless mutton, cut into small cubes
  • Split chickpea, one cup, soaked for at least two hours in warm water
  • Shami kabab Spice Mix, as per taste 
  • Oil, two tablespoons
  • Mint leaves, ½ cup
  • Green chili paste, one tablespoon
  • 2-inch ginger 
  • Four fat cloves of garlic, 
  • Turmeric, ½ teaspoon 
  • Water, one cup 

For Forming Kabab:

  • Fresh coriander, three tablespoons, chopped 
  • Chopped mint, two tablespoon
  • One teaspoon chat masala, or more to taste
  • Onion, one, chopped
  • Egg, beaten, one 
  • Hard-boiled eggs, two 

For Frying: 

  • Three eggs for egg wash.
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ teaspoon red chili powder
  • Bread crumbs, small bowl 
  • Oil, for frying  

Method to Prepare:

  • First, we will prepare the spices mix for the kabab. 
  • Roast all the spices on medium heat for around 1-2 minutes until fragrant. 
  • Now, grind all the roasted spices finely, and your spice mix is ready! 
  • Take a pot and all the ingredients of cooking meat. 
  • Cook these ingredients for about 45 minutes until the meat is tender and the lentil is soft.
  • Keep stirring and burn all the excess water. 
  • Let the mixture come to room temperature. 
  • Add this mixture to a chopper and make a smooth mixture of dal and meat.
  • Take a large dish and add the kabab mixture, mint, fresh coriander, boiled egg, one beaten egg, chopped onion, chat masala, and salt. Mix them well.
  • Now, grease your hands as it is time to roll out the kabab from the mixture.
  • Now, take a small bowl and beat three eggs with salt and red chili powder.
  • Dip prepared kabab in egg and then in bread crumbs. 
  • Shallow fry each kabab in oil until golden brown. 
  • Serve them hot and enjoy! 

Mutton Nihari

Nihari is categorized as the most popular thick curry dish that has its unique taste. Mutton Nihari is made using Mutton meat, all purpose flour, cinnamon sticks, cardamom, Garam Masala, ginger garlic paste, chili powder, coriander powder, fennel seeds, yogurt, nutmeg, cloves and bay leaves.

Mutton Nihari
Mutton Nihari

Quick Stats

Prep time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 3 hours
Servings: 3 serves

Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoon all-purpose flour slurry
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 2 cardamom
  • 2 tbsp garam masala
  • 1 tsp chili powder
  • 3 tbsp yogurt
  • Few pinches nutmeg
  • 1 kg mutton
  • 1/2 tsp haldi
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 8 cloves
  • 2 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
  • 1 tsp coriander powder
  • 1/2 cup oil or ghee
  • 2 tbsp fennel seeds
  • 1/2 tsp cumin seed
  • 1 fried onion
  • 2 ginger strips sliced
  • 2 chopped green chilies
  • 3 tbsp coriander leaves

Method to Prepare

  • Firstly, clean the mutton and cut into medium pieces.
  • Heat oil in a pan and add bay leaves, cloves, cinnamon sticks, and ginger-garlic paste.
  • Add the mutton and fry for about 2 to 3 minutes.
  • Then, add red chili powder, coriander powder, haldi, yogurt, and garam masala.
  • Fry everything until the oil separates.
  • Then, add the nutmeg, cardamom, spice masala, and 3 cups of water.
  • Cook for about 2 to 3 hours.
  • Then, add the flour slurry and cook for another 10 minutes.
  • Garnish it with coriander leaves, ginger strips, onions, and green chilies.
  • Serve them with naan or rice and enjoy!

Bihari Boti

Delicious starter recipe, this Bihari Boti is going to be a sure-hit recipe. The tender, marinated pieces of mutton will fill your home with mesmerizing aroma. Perfect for dawats, try this is one of the easiest Bakra Eid recipes.

Bihari Boti
Bihari Boti

Quick Stats

Prep time: 10 minutes + overnight marination
Cooking time: 40 minutes
Servings: 2 to 3 serves

Ingredients

  • 500gms meat boneless, cubed
  • 2 tbsp raw papaya paste
  • 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
  • 1/2 tbsp green chili paste
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1tbsp red chili powder
  • 1/2 tbsp garam masala
  • 1/4 tsp star anise powder
  • 1/4 cup yogurt
  • 1/2 tbsp poppy seed, roasted and grind
  • 2 tbsp fried crushed onion
  • 11/4 cup oil
  • 2 tbsp white vinegar

Method to Prepare

  • Take boneless cube meat of goat or lamb.Keep cubes small so it is easy to cook.
  • Mix raw papapya paste, ginger garlic paste, and green chili paste. Let it marinate for a couple of hours.
  • After two hours, add salt, red chili powder, garam masala, star anise powder, yogurt, poppy seeds, and fried crushed onion.
  • Now, let it marinate for about 4 to 5 hours.
  • After overnight marination, take out the meat.
  • Just before cooking, add mustard oil and white vinegar to it.
  • You can cook them in oven or in pan.
  • For oven, preheat the oven to 175 C.
  • Thread the skewers with meat and keep them on baking pan.
  • Cook them for about 40 minutes. After 20 minutes, turn the side so they are cooked equally from each side.
  • Brush oil at the end for moisture and shine.
  • Avoid brushing oil in the beginning or the spices will fall down.
  • Serve and enjoy!

Awadhi Gosht Khurma Recipe

Bring delicious flavors to Eid with this traditional Awadhi Gosht Khurma! Made with mutton, cooked in a myriad of spices – Awadhi Gosht is the perfect Eid recipe for you and your family. Follow this guide and enjoy one of the most flavorful Bakra Eid recipes! 

Awadhi Gosht Khurma
Awadhi Gosht Khurma

Quick Stats:

  • Prep Time: 20 minutes 
  • Cooking Time: 1 hour 30 minutes 
  • Servings: 6 serves 

Ingredients:

  • Mutton, two kg 
  • Black cardamom, two pieces 
  • 2-inches cinnamon
  • Garlic paste, one teaspoon 
  • Turmeric, one teaspoon
  • Red chili powder, one tablespoon
  • Rosewater, two tablespoons
  • Fried onion, four tablespoons  
  • Water, ½ cup 
  • Green cardamom, four 
  • Bay leaf, two 
  • Vegetable oil, four tablespoon
  • Ginger paste, one teaspoon 
  • Coriander powder, one tablespoon
  • Yogurt (curd), six tablespoons
  • Homemade garam masala powder, one teaspoon 
  • Salt, as required

Method to Prepare:

  • Take a pan and heat oil with green cardamom, bay leaf, black cardamom, cinnamon, and saute for a minute.
  • Now, add mutton, salt, turmeric, and fry it for another minute. 
  • Pour water, cover the lid and let it cook for around 5 minutes. 
  • Add ginger, garlic paste, coriander powder, red chili powder, homemade garam masala, and fried onion. Mix thoroughly. 
  • Now, yogurt and rose water. Once again, cover the lid and let it cook for another 5 minutes.
  • If there is excess water, cook it on high flame for a few minutes.  
  • Seal the edges of the dish with wheat dough and secure the lid to give the perfect dum. 
  • Let the slow dish cook on a medium flame. 
  • Once cooked, open the cover and garnish it with fresh coriander leaves. 
  • Add finely sliced ginger on top before serving. 
  • Enjoy the delicious mutton kurma with homemade garlic naan! 

Yakhni Pulao Recipe:

Make this traditional bone broth rice special Bakra Eid recipe and make your dawat more delicious and flavorful. The aromatic pulao is brimming with whole spices and will mesmerize your family and friends with its spellbinding savoriness! 

Bakra Eid Recipes
Yakhni Pulao

Quick Stats:

  • Prep Time: 10 minutes 
  • Cooking Time: 1 hour 
  • Servings: 6 serves 

Ingredients:

  • Soaked basmati rice, two cups 
  • ½ medium onion
  • Peppercorns, ½ teaspoon 
  • 2-inches Cinnamon stick
  • Nutmeg powder, ½ teaspoon
  • Six cloves garlic
  • Coriander seeds, one teaspoon
  • Salt, as required
  • Crushed to paste ginger, ½ teaspoon
  • ½ medium chopped tomato
  • Yogurt, ½ cup 
  • Red chili powder, ½ teaspoon 
  • Two green cardamom
  • 100-gm ghee
  • 500-gm mutton, chopped into cubes
  • Two black cardamom
  • ½ teaspoon clove
  • One bay leaf
  • ½ teaspoon mace powder
  • 2 inches ginger
  • 4 cup Water
  • ¼ medium sliced onion
  • ½ teaspoon crushed to paste garlic
  • One teaspoon of cumin seeds
  • ½ teaspoon coriander powder
  • One teaspoon of garam masala powder
  • 1 ½ teaspoon fennel seeds

Method to Prepare:

  • First, you will have to prepare a bouquet of garni. 
  • Take onion pieces, garlic pods, whole ginger, bay leaf, black cardamom, black peppercorns, coriander seeds, cinnamon stick, cloves, nutmeg, and mace, and tie it in a clean muslin cloth.  
  • Wash mutton and keep it aside. 
  • Take a cooking pot and add three cups of water, cubed mutton, and a teaspoon of salt. 
  • Now, turn on the flame, add prepared bouquet garni and boil for around 20 minutes or until the mutton is done.
  • Take the bouquet garni out and keep the stock with mutton pieces aside. Your ‘yakhni’ is ready.
  • Now, take a pan and heat ghee in it. Fry onions and keep ¼th of it aside for later.
  • Add cumin seeds, ginger-garlic paste, tomatoes, salt, red chili powder, and coriander powder to the remaining onions. Stir fry for around 3 minutes. 
  • Now, add yogurt, garam masala, and green cardamom, and cook on medium-high heat till the tomatoes get tender. 
  • Then add fennel seeds and mutton pieces to the masala and let it simmer for around 2 minutes.
  • Now, add this masala to the prepared “Yakhni” in the cooking pot. 
  • Turn on the heat and let the rice cook uncovered for 5 minutes. 
  • Sprinkle fried onions that we saved earlier on the rice, add one tablespoon of ghee and seal the pot with foil or atta dough so that the flavors do not escape.
  • Cook on low heat for around 15 minutes or until the rice is done.
  • Enjoy the hot Yakni Pulao with these raita recipes!  

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Sheer Khurma Recipe

Making Sheer Khurma is always a pleasant and joyful experience! This sweet dish is the perfect Eid recipe that will help you end your Eid dawat on a sweet note! Try this traditional Eid dessert recipe and celebrate this year’s Eid with this delicious recipe! 

Bakra Eid Recipes
Sheer Khurma

Quick Stats:

  • Prep Time: 10 minutes 
  • Cooking Time: 40 minutes 
  • Servings: 6 serves 

Ingredients:

FOR SHEER

  • 1 ½ liter milk
  • Sugar, less or more to taste
  • ¼ teaspoon green cardamom powder
  • a small pinch of saffron

OTHER

  • Butter or ghee, two tablespoons, divided
  • Crushed vermicelli, ½ cup 
  • Almonds, pistachio, and cashew, three tablespoons each, crushed
  • Raisins, four tablespoons soaked overnight
  • Five dried dates, soaked overnight, and chopped

Method to Prepare:

  • Take a stainless steel pot and add all the ingredients of sheer to it. 
  • Put that pot on a low flame, bring it to a boil, and simmer it for 3o to 40 minutes. 
  • Meanwhile, take a pan and fry vermicelli in one tablespoon of butter on slow to medium flame until fragrant. 
  • Now, add this fried vermicelli to the simmering milk pot.
  • Now, fry dry fruits in ½ tablespoon of butter for around 30 seconds on medium flame. 
  • Add these fried dry fruits into the simmering milk pot. Save some nuts for garnish.
  • Finally, add raisins and dates to the milk.
  • Simmer this mixture for another 10-15 minutes until thickened.
  • Serves hot or cold to taste.
  • Garnish it with some dry fruits and enjoy this tasty dessert!  

Final Words  

These unique Bakra Eid recipes will ensure that your Eid Dawat is brimming with unique flavors and mesmerizing aroma. Try this specially designed Eid menu and gladden your guests with these delicious and savory Bakra Eid recipes! And lastly – Eid Mubarak!