Persian Cooking (Healthy Kitchen)

[Rasputin]

Persian Cooking For a Healthy


Persian cuisine is exotic yet simple like a poem by Omar Khayyam, healthy yet colorful like a Persian miniature painting. It combines rice, the jewel and foundation of Persian cooking, with a little meat, fowl or fish; plenty of onion, garlic, vegetables, fruit, nuts, herbs; and a delicate, uniquely Persian mix of spices such as rose petals, angelica seeds, dried limes, candied orange peels, cinnamon, cardamom, cumin and saffron to achieve a delicious and balanced diet.

[maryam9]

this lady is amazing.

i havent seen this book yet, but her other cookbook is fantastic.
I know im starting to sound like a 40-yr old woman, but her books are really good and you cant possibly learn everything about iranian cooking from just your mum

[Rasputin]

The foods served during Nowruz are loaded with fresh herbs. This dish features green rice with herb kuku and caramelized barberries. It's accompanied with fish sticks and smoked white fish and garnished with half a Seville orange... Najmieh Batmanglij lives in Washington, D.C., but grew up in Iran. She has written several Persian cookbooks including her latest, Happy Nowruz: Cooking with Children to Celebrate the Persian New Year. Batmanglij prepares the same spring foods for Nowruz every year. Everything is cooked with loads of fresh, spring herbs. She begins and ends the holiday with a soup with noodles that symbolize unraveling the difficulties in the year to come. Cooked with fresh dill, parsley and four pounds of spinach, it tastes like a bowl of sprin.