Iranian cuisine recipes | foodcraftz.com (2024)

This can be a main course or a starter dish. A simple and easy to cook recipe which is perfect for the cold seasons when the squash comes to farmers market.

This recipe shows how to cook a basic Tahchin, with just saffron, yogurt and egg. There are many varieties of Tahchin the most popular is with chicken (Tahchin e morgh).

This recipe comes from central Iran specially the Isfahan region. My grandmother was from Zavareh, e small town in the middle of the desert near Isfahan, and this dish was her specialty. I try to replicate as how she made for the whole family on weekends.

Haleem or Halim is a popular breakfast in the middle east specially during the feast month of Ramadan and Iran has its own version. It’s very common that people buy Halim from the specialized stores in the early mornings

Adas means lentils in Persian and Adasi is a lentils soup that people have for breakfast. It is an easy recipe, you’ll just need time so it settles to have a flavorful lentils soup.

Sholezard has two main ingredients: rice & saffron. No Basmati rice for this recipe. Because it should release starch during long hours of cooking.

The Kachi Zavareh is a main course perfect for cold seasons. A common food of central Iran, with polenta, onions, and kashk

The Persian halva is made of a few ingredients, that make it look like an easy to prepare sweet but, believe me, this one is one of the most difficult recipes of Persian cuisine.

Eshkeneh is one of the classics and modest recipes of Persian cuisine. This soup is made of cheap ingredients: onion, turmeric, flour… It was mainly the food of the poor.

This recipe is made of flour and yogurt. No yeast or oil has been added. With the natural fat of whole greek yogurt the texture of bread becomes softer and it becomes healthier to eat.

The chicken livers and hearts (جغول بغول) are part of the organ meats, and they are considered to be superfoods with loads of benefits.

Sour kebab (or Kabab Torsh) is a Persian recipe, it is a typical kebab from north Iran and every time the thought of northern cuisine comes in mind, a list of sour ingredients, comes after! Because they are masters of using sourness in food.

Lubia polo is a mix of green beans stew layered with white rice. We cook the stew and rice separately then combine them into one pot and after an hour it will be ready!

Kuku is the Persian version of Italian frittata. Their only difference lays in the number of eggs. Kuku has less. Potato kuku is made of few ingredients and is very easy to prepare which is perfect for starters and happy hours treat.

Autumn is the season of quince. With only 2 ingredients (quince and sugar), you can make one of the most delicious jams of the season. It has an intense natural red color and the chunks of murabba in mouth makes it fun and different from the creamy jams we usually have.