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Lentil and Beef Rice cake ( Gheimeh Polo Ghalebi ) Lentil and beef rice cake Lentil and beef is a stew in Persian cuisine which is called gheimeh and it serves with rice. I’m having a party next week and planning to have deferent serving style. As everyone who know Persian food is aware that Persians love tahdig and always in parties the dish of tahdig usually disappears in a second, so I was thinking instead of cooking rice just […]
Cranberry Beans Stew ( Baghala Ghatogh ) Baghala Ghatogh is one of the famous vegetarian dish from Caspian province in Northern Iran. In traditional it’s made with Cranberry beans (Pacheh Baghala) which the season is beginning of fall, but dry and frozen versions are always available. This is one of the quickest dish you can make if the beans are peeled!! Yes, the beans should be peeled, so this step takes many hours specially if you use dry beans, which […]
Creamy Spinach Soup Green is the color of spring so bring spring to your winter with this green soup. When it’s cold is always good to have a bowl of hot soup at your lunch or dinner table. Give yourself a delicious calcium, fiber and iron boost with this creamy rice and spinach soup. Preparation time: 10 minutes Cook time: 40 minutes Total time: 50 minutes Servings: 4 people Course: Appetizer, soup, vegan Ingredients 1/2 cup rice 1 cups […]
Pulled Beef & Black Beans Whenever we go to any food festival or any street events here in Florida or back in Toronto, at least one venue serves Pulled Pork and every single time my kids look at me say “ Mom can we get that?” And they know the answer is NO. I don’t like Pork, not only for our cultural believe but also it’s very fat, but at the same time I feel bad since I know they […]
Persian Herb Stew( Ghormeh Sabzi ) Persian recipes are full of flavors and spices and need time for preparation. Ghormeh Sabzi is one of the most famous Persian stew and it’s always one of the dishes in our parties, or weddings. It’s a mixture of herbs and beef/lamb. What makes it special is a fragrant herb called Fenugreek and dry Persian lime. It’s really a weekend family lunch feasts. Course Main Course Cuisine Persian Prep Time 40 minutes Cook Time 2 hours Total Time 2 hours and […]
Persian Saffron and chicken rice cake ( Tahchin ) Tahchin is a very delicious Persian rice cake full of flavors. The word by word meaning is tah means bottom and chin means arrange. This rice is combination of chicken and rice in layers. The traditional style made with cooked shredded chicken and several layers of that and flavored rice but in this recipe I’ll tell you how to make thin layer of this rice with Chrissy bottom. It’s not usually […]
Turnip Soup ( Vegan Version ) My mom loves Turnip very much and I remember whenever we got cold or flue, she ran to the store and get a bag of turnip and simply boil it and serve with salt, pepper and lime. She said ” eat this, this will kill all the germs like a miracle.” The boiled one doesn’t smell good so I usually add it to soup. It’s been chilly these days here in Orlando which is […]
Persian Cardamom Muffins ( Cake Yazdi ) This muffin is really a Persian style, why? Because of cardamom spice and rose water. It’s a traditional pastry from Centre of Iran, called cake Yazdi which is called after a city in the centre of Iran, Yazd. I don’t know I love it because I’m Persian or because of my childhood memory. When I walk back from the school with my friends and on the way we get a couple of this hot […]
Turnip Soup My mom loves Turnip very much and I remember whenever we got cold or flue, she ran to the store and get a bag of turnip and simply boil it and serve with salt, pepper and lime. She said ” eat this, this will kill all the germs like a miracle.” The boiled one doesn’t smell good so I usually add it to soup. It’s been chilly these days here in Orlando which is not common here, but […]
Beef Koobideh or Kebab Koobideh Kebab is a juicy and flavorful minced Persian kebab and very popular in all Persian restaurants. Koobideh kebab is all type of kebab made from minced meat, can be beef, mixed of beef and lamb or even chicken. All Mediterranean cuisine has this type of Kebab and they call it kebob or kefteh kebob but the ingredients are not the same as Persian. The deference is onion and garlic. In Persian cuisine we just add onion to […]