Dolmeh

Dolmeh is one of our traditional delicious foods. It is cooked in different flavors such as salty, sweet, and sour. But the most popular type is salty. I know that Arabs has this food in their own way of cooking. Nowadays, Dolmeh is not a very usual food in Iranian houses since this is difficult to cook and take a long time to prepare, but still is cooked in grand mamas houses. My mom tries to prepare it one or tow times in a year and this year I learned to cook it, too. It was such a different experience!

Ingredients:

Split peas: 1 cup

Rice: 2 cup

Granulated meat 250gr

Fresh vegetables included; Tarragon, dill, sweet fennel, parsley: Totaly250 gr (chopped)

Onion: 1medium (chopped)

Barge mo 500 gr

Vine Leaf: 500 gr (fresh)

Spices include Pepper, Turmeric, Caraway-seed, salt: enough

Recipe:

1. Boil Split peas (add some salt). Let it became a bit soft, then add rice and cook well.

2. Fry the chopped onion, add spices and then the granulated meat and mix them with the boiled rice and peas with.

3. Fill all the leafs by the mixture. Note to turn it water tight and do not let it open at all. (Do it step y step, follow the photos on the below)

4. Put all turned leafs one by one in a suitable pot. Add some hot water (about a cup) on it. You should add the hot water little by little. If it needed more add again. Let it cooks well. You can add some oil to make it shiny.

5. It's ready to serve. You can serve it with bread. Enjoy!

                 

Chelow Kabab Koobideh

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Kotlet

Kotlet is a kind of homemade kebab which is a good food for picnics or for dinner. It is usual that Persians try Yogurt drink after eating Kebabs. Kotlet is something like hamburger.

Ingredients:

Granulated meat, Onion, potato, spices, Egg

Traditional Drink

"Sharbat" in Farsi (that means drink in Eng) is usually made in home with fruit, plants distillate and...
In the today's post, you can see the photo of Golab- Saffron Sharbat or Rose water & saffron drink. It really makes you calm!

Ingredients:

Saffron

Sugar

Rose water

Cold water

Ice

Shirin Polo

Shirin polo (or Sweet Rice in English) is a kind of meal which is usually served in wedding parties. A very Delicious traditional food with special sweet taste.

Ingredients:

Original Iranian rice

Chicken

Pistachio peels

Almond peels

Orange peels

saffron

Cinnamon

Sugar

Halva

In an afternoon, when you are free at home and do not know what do you like to eat or even to do, cooking a dish of "Halva" is a good solution!
"Halva" is a kind of Persian dessert which is often served at Ramadan month, religion parties and also at commemorate for dead people. There is also a nice custom in Iran that people cook Halva sometimes on Thursday evenings and parcel it as a charity because of their dead relatives.
In any case, Halva is a delicious dessert with sweet taste!

Ingredients:

Rice flour
Wheat flour
Chickpea flour
Oil
Sugar
Cardamom
Rosewater
Water

Chicken Roll

It's my mom special chicken roll. Nice, healthy and delicious!

Melon Dessert

That's a good idea to fill an empty melon with colorful jellies and make such cold and delicious slices!

Hot Fish

Note: Chop sticks are not used in our eating culture. Sometimes I like to eat with them.

Dessert with blackberry

Desserts are very delicious specially in the hot days of summer. Different types of fruits and jellies helps us to make varied desserts for these days. I try to send more kind of dessert at summer. Ingredients

Blueberry powder

Jelly powder

Sugar

Fresh Blackberries
Water

Rice and Black Cherries

Ingredients:

Rice

Chicken

Black cherry

Safron

cinnamon

pistachio

Hot Covered Chicken

Dam-Pokhtak

Few days ago,We asked mom a traditional food.A dish that we had never tried till that day!

Mom did it as wel,l like her other foods.It was really delicious.The colorful dish you see in the photo is Dam-Pokhtak.It has rice,groats,vermicelli,onion,little slices of meat and spices,It is very very delicious!!!

Ingredients for 4-6 people
150 gms Wheat groats
150 gms Rice
1 medium potato (chopped well in a cube shape)
1 medium onion (chopped well)
200 gms mutton
150 gms pop noodle
1tsm of each one: salt, turmeric pepper (black powder), cinnamon

Method
1. Mix wheat groats with rice then soak them (with water and 2 sp salt) 4 hours before start cooking.
2. Fry potato with some oil and bring it out from oil.
3. Fry onion and add pop noodle to it, mix them well and add mutton, mix all and let it to be roasted. Then add potato, salt, turmeric, pepper, cinnamon as well and stock it.
4. Now,wash away rice and groats and add it to a steam-tight full of under boiling water and let it boil (do not let it become crushed) then swill it out.
5. choose a suitable vessel, add oil in it and set some slices of potato at the base on it (you can also use bread instead of potato),add some of the mixture of boiled rice and groats and make a layer of the fried mixture on it. Do it layer by layer till end and close the vessel .Let it cooks over steam.
You can use some saffron when you want to serve it.

Koofteh

Koofteh is on of our famous traditional foods.

Meat , green vegetables , rice , split peas , damsons and some spices are the ingredients.

Chicken with vegtables

What is your opinion about this food?
I have invented it by myself and my family liked it.To me it is easy to cook, nice and delisious!

Photos Series 1

My mom's special walnut bread

I wish I could send you the special good smell of this bread while my mom was cooking it in the oven!

Lazania-I cooked it myself!

Although Lazania,Pizza,Spaghetti are Italian foods,Iranian people cook it in their own way.As You see in the photo I cooked it ;)

Khoresh-e-Karafs (Celery)

This is a Famous Iranian food that is so delicious and healthy.We try it with hot over steamed rice.There is a secret about this food that most of the Iranian men do not like it.As my father,brother and aunt's husband avoid to eat this Khoresh. I really do not know why?! but I offer you to experience it!

Finally,I found a free time to update this blog.I still do not enough time to post the ingredients and methods of these foods,So I just send the photos.But be sure that I will answer all your probable questions about them.