Shirazi rice pilaf قنبر پلو شیرازی

Shiraz is an ancient city in SW of Iran. Shiraz is known as the city of literature, flowers, wine, gardens, nightingales and poets. This beautiful city is a one of the important tourism centres in Iran. With a short driving distance from Shiraz there are ruins of some of most spectacular ancient sites such as:

Pide pizza

Pide is delicious Turkish speciality, a kind of Turkish flatbread with a boat shape. Pide dough is very simple and easy to make. . Pide is one of the popular and comfort foods in Turkey. Pide can be made with different variety of toppings such as ground meat, cheese, sausages, eggs, …   Ingredients for

Turkish Pide pizza

Pide is delicious Turkish speciality, a kind of Turkish flatbread with a boat shape. Pide dough is very simple and easy to make. . Pide is one of the popular and comfort foods in Turkey. Pide can be made with different variety of toppings such as ground meat, cheese, sausages, eggs, … Ingredients for the

Chicago deep dish pizza

For the first time when I saw deep dish pizza , I just amazed, it was totally different from regular pizza. What a super delicious and I just love it. Oh by the way I know deep dish pizza has different dough that is combination of all purpose flour with cornmeal and I cooked with

Carrot- prunes stew ( خورش هویج با آلو)

One of classic stews from Iran is called carrot prunes stew that comes originally from Tabriz city an old and famous city in NW of Iran. Carrot is called Havij, and Purne is called Aloo in Farsi language. This stew is a festival of colour, flavor and beauty. Combination of lamb meat, carrots, prunes with

Pickled vegetables

Torshi/pickle is Mixed vegetables/fruits preserved in vinegar and salt. Torshi Literally means ‘sour’. Torshi is very popular in Iran, Republic Azerbaijan, Turkey and Arabic countries. Specially in Iran you can find wide variety of pickles. Nowadays, usually house wives like old days during the Autumn go to grocery and buy all fresh herbs and vegetables

Mashed potato wrap

My mother used to make mashed potato wrap as snack for us. It was simple and tasty, a combination of spices with fried onion and mashed potato. Ingredients 300 g potatoes 1 medium onion Salt and pepper to taste ½ tsp cumin 1/2 tsp turmeric Slices of   Persian Lavash bread (naan) or tortilla bread  Vegetable

Cabbage dish

This is an easy quick cabbage dish,  full of flavour and colour. Ingredients half of a small white cabbage, lengthwise sliced 1 large onion, thinly and lengthwise sliced 300g minced beef or lamb Small bunch of coriander, chopped 2 cloves garlic, chopped 2 medium tomatoes, diced 2 tbsp tomato paste 3tbsp rice, cooked ½ tsp

Beef stroganoff with Fusilli lunghi pasta

This delicious dish serves usually serves with pasta, chips or rice. I have tried with all and would say equally are going well with beef stroganoff. Ingredients 200 g beef sirloin steak 150 g fusilli lunghi pasta 2 medium onions. Cut lengthwise 230 g mushroom, sliced ½ cup sour cream 1 Tbsp mustard sauce 1

Onion spiral bread ( Naan-e piazi)

You have no idea how much these flaky and lovely fried breads with caramelised onions, are delicious. I am really excited about them. It’s super easy to prepare and bake them. Might be made with yeast or without yeast. No need to oven just bake in a pan on the stove and then you have