Recipes use a lot of fresh and dry ingredients ... For anyone who wants to get into cooking Persian food, these are some of the essential ingredients you need for great Persian cooking.

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Topped with icing and baked in a bundt tin, it's a cake for when you're out to impress. For this recipe you will need a 23–25cm/9–10in bundt tin and a freestanding mixer or a hand-held ...

Place the onion into a small food processor and blend until smooth. Strain through a cheesecloth to extract the onion juice – you want about 100 ml. Discard the onion solids.

I take a recipe book, and cook from it, for family and friends. I then write a review, and you decide whether the book – in ...

Persian food is all about tart, fruity flavors, and you'll see acidic ingredients like tamarind, rhubarb, barbarries, sour cherries, sumac, and lime juice in everything from beverages to kebabs to ...

Persian Roasted Egg Plant Salad Recipe: Persian roasted eggplant salad is a savoury and creamy salad recipe. The roasted eggplants are the highlight of the dish that will be used in the salad. Crispy ...

Food Stylist: Rebecca Jurkevich ... It was the first Persian dish I truly felt confident making on my own. My recipe continues to evolve, as I fine-tune the balance of fenugreek, turmeric and ...

Nowruz, the Persian New Year, is a time of renewal ... The festival lasts about two weeks, and food is an important element of the celebrations. Exotic Bazaar founder Gilava Pour.

The chef celebrates Persian New Year with the traditional menu ... and has covered chefs and the restaurant industry on staff at Food & Wine and Tasting Table. Made of layers of flaky phyllo ...