Muhammara Dip

Roasted bell pepper and walnut dip is called Muhammara محمره . It is originated from Aleppo in Syria. It is a delicious, and easy vegan dip. It can be eaten as a dip and spread or as sauce for meats. Key ingredient in this recipe is sweet red pepper (capsicum). Other ingredients for this recipe

Marinated Olives (Zeytoon Parvardeh)

In Northern cities of Iran, having pickled garlic with 7-10 years old and marinated olives in their daily meals is a MUST. If you are an olive lover, so perhaps my following post can caught your attention.  I love this salad or pickle which is called ‘ Zytoon Parvardeh زیتون پرورده’ or marinated olives with

Walnut Snowball Cookies

These beautiful cookies could be made with walnuts or pecan. They are buttery, with plenty of walnuts and full of flavour. It’s surprisingly easy recipe to follow. Ingredients 1 cup all purpose flour 1 cup walnuts, finely diced and toasted for better taste 113g unsalted butter, room temperature 3tbsp white sugar 1tsp vanilla extract How

My Pumkin-Walnuts Dessert

Well, October is here, with shorter days, colder weather, and we celebrate change of seasons. When you walk outside, yellow leaves are everywherre and look completely different in a beautiful way. It is also Halloween time, and pumpkin is popular in this time of the year for making soups, cakes, tarts and other desserts. Today,

My Yogurt Balls With Herbs & Spices

Hi my dear page visitors. I am just in love with these yogurt balls. Aren’t they gorgeous? They look like jewels. Yogurt or as we call it in Farsi: mast ماست , can be high in protein, calcium, vitamins, and live culture and These can offer protection for bones and help prevent digestive problems. Yogurt may

Shirazi Rice Pilaf

Shiraz شیراز is an ancient city in SW of Iran. Shiraz is known as the city of literature, flowers, 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:

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:

Deemaaj دیماج قزوینی

Qazvin in NW of Tehran, is one of ancient cities of Iran. Qazvin was capital of the Persian Empire under Safavids for 57 years. Nowadays, this city is one of important cultural and tourism centre in Iran due to archaeological sites, fortifications, monuments, ……. and beautiful sights and for its carpet patterns, poets, pistachio gardens

Easy Nut Energy Bar

Hi lovely people. If you are very busy that have no time to eat your food, a delicious and good solution is nut energy bar that is a good sources of protein and carbohydrate. Ingredients 1 cup walnuts 1 cup almond ½ cup sesame seed ½ cup pistachio ½ cup cashew ½ cup pumpkin seed

Spinach and garlic-yogurt rolls

This is such a delicioussssssssssss and good finger food, party nibbles or snack. Star of this recipe is spinach. You can use either fresh or frozen spinach leaves. One of other ingredients for this beautiful dish is barberry which is called ‘ Zereshk زرشک ‘ in Persian language. Zereshk is dried fruit of Barberries.