eggs – Rozina's Persian Kitchen

Hard Boiled Eggs in Cups

I love having soft or hard boil eggs for breakfast. Usually boiled eggs are eggs from chicken but duck or quail eggs also are tasty. These eggs cooked with their shells in the boiling water and you can have hard boiled eggs with cooked egg white and egg yolk or soft boiled egg which leave the yolk liquid or softly cooked.

There are different tools or gadgets for making boiled eggs. I used my small coffee cups for making boiled eggs and turned out beautiful.

Ingredients

4 eggs
4 cups
Salt and chilli flakes to taste
Pinch of paprika
Butter
Olive oil or any vegetable oil

How to make it?????

Pour about 1tbsp of oil inside the each cup. Use a brush and rub the oil to the sides of the cups. Crack the eggs into each cup.

Place them in a saucepan. Pour water half way through the cups. Cover the saucepan with a lid. Allow to cook for 8-10 minutes.

While eggs are cooking, melt the butter in a pan, season with salt and chilli flakes, add some paprika which gives gorgeous red colour and tastes to the butter.

Transfer cups to a serving plate. Before trying to remove eggs from the cups, first let them cool for 1-2 minutes. Place cups upside down in a serving plat and invert.

Pour melted butter over top of the eggs with some fresh basil leaves and bon appetite.

تخم آبپز فنجانی

من خودم شخصن خیلی دوست دارم تخم مرغ آبپز چه به صورت سفت یا عسلی برای صبحونه داشته باشم. برای درست کردن تخم مرغ آبپز معممولن از تخم مرغ استفاده مییشه ولی با تخم بلدرچین – اردگ و … هم امکان داره. تخم مرغ آبپز کردن یعنی داخل یک قابلمه تخم مرغ ها رو با پوستش قرار می دیم و میگذاریم یا به صورت سفت پخته بشه که در این صورت زرده و سفید پخته میشه ویا تخم مرغ عسلی درست کرد که زرده تخم مرغ شل و آبکی خواهد بود.

وسایل و ابزار مختلفی برای درست کردن تخم مرغ آبپزهست. من امروز صبح با فنجون قهوه خوری تخم مرغ آبپز درست کردم و باسس خوشمزه ای که بهش اضافه کردم یک تخم مرغ خیلی خوشمزه و خوشرنگ درست شد.

مواد لازم

چهار تخم مرغ

چهار فنجان کوچک قهوه خوری

نمک و فلفل قرمز خشک به میزان نیاز

کمی پاپریکا

کره

روغن زیتون یا روغن مایع

طرز تهیه

داخل هر فنجان به اندازه یک ق غذاخوری روغن مایع ریخته و دیواره های فنجان ها را چرب کنید. داخل هر فنجان یک تخم مرغ شکسته و فنجان ها را داخل یک قابلمه که به اندازه چهار فنجان جا داشته باشد قرار دهید و آب به مثداری که کمتر از نصف قد فنجان را بگییرد آب اضافه کنید.

در قابلمه را گذاشته و اجازه دهید برای 10-8 دقیقه تخم مرغ ها سفت پخته شوند. در حالیکه که تخم مرغ ها در حال پختن هستن داخل یک تابه 1-2 ق غ کره یا روغن مایع ریخته و نمک و فلفل خشک و پاپریکا اضافه کرده و 1 دقیقه تفت دهید. پاپریکا رنگ و طعم خیلی خوشی به کره آب شده می دهد.

فنجانها را به صورت پشت و رو داخل بشقاب قرار داده و آن‌ها را بیرون بیاورید.

سس کره را روی تخم مرغ ها ریخته و با نان تست و ریحان سرو کنید.

Hard boiled eggs

Ingredients

4 eggs
4 cups
Salt and chilli flakes to taste
Pinch of paprika
Butter
Olive oil or any vegetable oil

How to make it?????

Pour about 1tbsp of oil inside the each cup. Use a brush and rub the oil to the sides of the cups. Crack the eggs into each cup. Place them in a saucepan. Pour water half way through the cups. Cover the saucepan with a lid. Allow to cook for 8-10 minutes.

While eggs are cooking, melt the butter in a pan, season with salt and chilli flakes, add some paprika which gives gorgeous red colour and tastes to the butter.

Transfer cups to a serving plate. Before trying to remove eggs from the cups, first let them cool for 1-2 minutes. Place cups upside down in a serving plat and invert.

Pour melted butter over top of the eggs with some fresh basil leaves and bon appetite.

Roses Carrot- Zucchini Tart

Dish, Uncategorized

This colourful tart will get all attention at a party. I love the contrast between colours in this dish.

Ingredients

1 puff pastry sheet
2 eggs
1 large green zucchini
6 orange- purple and yellow carrots
350g ricotta cheese
100g mozzarella cheese or Feta cheese
¼ tsp nutmeg powder
¼ tsp black pepper
½ tsp dried mint or oregano
Salt to taste

How to make it?????

we need a tart pan. Now unfold puff pastry, just big enough to cover the pan. Trim the excess. Place a piece of parchment paper in as shown. Place some beans on it, in order to avoid moving the paper.

Place it in the oven and allow to bake on 200C degree for 15-20 minutes. Once it is baked, let it cool down.

Now, in a large bowl whisk the eggs, then add ricotta and mozzarella cheese, dried herb, nutmeg, pepper, salt and mix all ingredients well together.

Preheat the oven to 200C degree. Slice zucchinis and carrots lengthwise and very thin.

Now, spread the cheese mixture in the baked puff pastry. Now we are going to make rose shape rolls. So for making a rose shape roll you would need 3 slices of zucchini or carrot Then take one slice of zucchini or carrot and roll it. Take second slice and rolling around the first one.

Place each one of the rose buds among the cheese mixture. Carry on with remaining of the ingredients and repeat the process and place each one next to the other one.

Once you finished rolling , spray some vegetable oil on rolled vegetables. Transfer the tart pan into the oven and allow to bake for 45- 50 minutes.

My Homemade Sushi Recipe

Fish, Nations food

Well first of all I should confess I dislike seafood. So I had no idea I could eat Sushi or Sashimi. So once I was with Japanese friends in a restaurant, they ordered Sushi, and asked me to try. I said, nooooooooooo, never, ever,, I do not like cooked fish so how can I eat raw fish, but they insisted and I tried but you can imagine my face when I wanted to try sushi. Then magic happened and I was in love with sushi. Oh my God, it was FAN TAS TIC, so delicious, so tasty and not a fishy tasting fish.

The popular and commonly raw fish used for Sushi are: Tuna, Salmon, Octopus, cuttlefish, prawn, squid. For making Sushi, a very important factor in eating raw fish is freshness, so you need sushi grade fish from a qualified supplier. Then you would need a dark green seaweed wrappers or Nori.

So if you are a Sushi lover, as I am, here is an easy and tasty sushi recipe. Sushi is a traditional Japanese dish that is low in fat and high in protein. Sushi literally means sour, due to using vinegared rice. Main ingredients for making Sushi is sticky rice. There are varieties of Sushi for vegetarians and non vegetarians.

First of all for making Sushi you should consider a few items such as:

Sushi mat or rolling mat
Wasabi
Soy sauce
Nori or Sea weed sheets
Sharp knife

Secondly, is about what you can put in Sushi as ingredients!! Answer is you can use smoked or raw Salmon fish, Tuna, Shrimp, squid, egg, and vegetables such as cucumber, avocado, asparagus,carrots ….

Ingredients

250g sushi rice, cooked
30ml rice vinegar
Nori seaweed sheets
Smoked Salmon fish
Avocado, sliced
cucumber, sliced lengthwise and take out the seeds
3 eggs
pinch of sugar
Soy sauce
Wasabi
Sushi mat
Cling film
Sharp knife

How to make it??!!

Cook sushi rice and let it cool down. As the rice is chilling down, add vinegar. Mix together and set aside. Vinegar adds flavour and taste to sushi.

Crack the eggs, add pinch of sugar and beat them. Heat the oil in a pan and pour in the eggs . Allow to cook and then roll it. Once omelette is done, slice the omelette lengthwise.

Cut Salmon meat into nice thin strips or slices. Cut avocado and cucumber into thin strips too. Now everything is ready for sushi.

Put cling film onto a sushi mat ( it will make it easier to prepare sushi). One side of Nori sheet is silky and other side is rough. So place smooth side down and rough side facing you.

Wet your hand, grab a ball of rice and gently spread on sea weed sheet. Now, get a strip of salmon fish, avocado and cucumber and omelette and place them on the rice. Roll the mat and slightly squeeze and roll it again.

Other way for making sushi is, to spread the rice on one side of the nori . Then sprinkle sesame seeds on the rice and flip over it and place slices of salmon fish, avocado and cucumber and roll it.

Now dip the knife into the water and take off the ends of the sushi and them slice them all in same size.

Serve sushi with Wasabi, soy sauce, pickled ginger.

My Homemade Sushi

Ingredients

250 g sushi rice, cooked
30ml rice vinegar
Nori seaweed sheets
Smoked Salmon fish
Avocado, sliced
cucumber, sliced lengthwise and take out the seeds
3 eggs
pinch of sugar
Soy sauce
Wasabi
Sushi mat
Cling film
Sharp knife

How to make it??!!

Cook sushi rice and let it cool down. As the rice is chilling down, add vinegar. Mix together and set aside. Vinegar adds flavour and taste to sushi.

Crack the eggs, add pinch of sugar and beat them. Heat the oil in a pan and pour in the eggs . Allow to cook and then roll it. Once omelet is done, slice the omelet lengthwise.

Cut Salmon meat into nice thin strips or slices. Cut avocado and cucumber into thin strips too. Now everything is ready for sushi.

Put cling film onto a sushi mat ( it will make it easier to prepare sushi.

One side of Nori sheet is silky and other side is rough. So place smooth side down and rough side facing you.

Wet your hand, grab a ball of rice and gently spread on sea weed sheet. Now, get a strip of salmon fish, avocado and cucumber and omelet and place them on the rice. Roll the mat and slightly squeeze and roll it again.

Other way for making sushi is, to spread the rice on one side of the nori . Then sprinkle sesame seeds on the rice and flip over it and place slices of salmon fish, avocado and cucumber and roll it.

Now dip the knife into the water and take off the ends of the sushi and them slice them all in same size.

Serve sushi with Wasabi, soy sauce, pickled ginger.

French Toast

Bread

French toast is one tastiest bread dish which is slices of bread soaked in mixture of egg and milk or cream with lovely spices such as cinnamon and nutmeg.

French toast is known with different names such as gypsy toast, German toast, or eggy bread.

Cooked slices of bread might be served as a sweet dish with maple syrup , jam or honey and might be served as a savory dish with tomato sauce.

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Ingredients

4 thick slices of bread
Butter
4 eggs
½ cup cream
3tbsp white sugar
½ tsp cinnamon

How to make it??

Fry the slices of bread on lightly greased on a skillet on medium heat until browned on both side.

Transfer the French toast to a plate and pour over honey , jam or maple syrup.

فرنچ تست

تست فرانسوی یکی از خوشمزه ترین غذاهای نانی است که با نامهای فرنچ تست – نان تخم مرغی– تست آلمانی – تست کولی هم شناخته شده است. فرنچ تست شامل خیساندن نان تست در مخلوطی از تخم مرغ و خامه یا شیرو ادویه هایی مثل دارچین و یا جوز هندی درست می‌شود .

فرنچ تست آماده شده را میتوان به صورت شیرین و همراه با عسل – مربا و یا شیره افرا سرو کرد و یا با سس گوجه‌فرنگی سرو کرد.

مواد لازم

چهار برش ضخیم نان تست– نان تست ضخیم مناسب است چون برش نازک نان در مخلوط تخم مرغی له شده و خمیر می‌شود

کره

چهار عدد تخم مرغ

نصف پیمانه خامه – هر نوع خامه ای میتوانید استفاده کنید

سه ق غ شکر سفید

نصف ق چ دارچین یا جوز هندی

عسل– شیره افرا Maple syrup

و یا مربا برای روی نان

طرز تهیه

داخل یک ظرف گود تخم مرغ ها را با شکر– دارچین و خامه هم بزنید تا خوب ترکیب شوند.پشت و روی نان‌ها را کره بمالید.نان ها را در مخلوط تخم مرغی قرار داده و بگذارید برای ده دقیقه داخل مایه تخم مرغی بماند.

کمی کره را در یک تابه آب کرده و نان‌ها را داخل تابه قرار داده تا پشت و روی آن‌ها سرخ و طلایی شوند.

نان‌های آماده شده را داخل یک ظرف چیده و روی آن‌ها شیره افرا – عسل یا مربا و کمی میوه ی تازه گذاشته و میل کنید. خیلی خوشمزه هست.

French toast

Ingredients

4 thick slices of bread
Butter
4 eggs
½ cup cream
3tbsp white sugar
½ tsp cinnamon

How to make it??

In a shallow bowl, beat the eggs, sugar, cinnamon and cream.Butter the slices of bread on both sides. Then soak the slices of bread in the egg mixture for 10 minutes, and turning to coat boat sides.Fry the slices of bread on lightly greased on a skillet on medium heat until browned on both side. Transfer the French toast to a plate and pour over honey , jam or maple syrup.

Monte Cristo sandwich

Nations food, Sandwich

What a great sandwich. You can make it savoury by adding Mayonnaise and mustard sauce or sweet by adding jam, it is just your choice and both are equally tasty.

Traditionally the whole sandwich is dipped in the beaten egg and then pan fried or deep fried.

Ingredients

6 slices of toasted bread
8 sliced cheese
8 slices of ham or turkey
Strawberry jam
4 eggs, beaten
Salt and pepper to taste
Bread crumbs
Vegetable oil or butter

How to make it

Cut the crusts off the bread. Spread jam on the bread. Put one slice of cheese on it, then put 2 sliced ham and another slice of cheese. Spread jam on the bread and place on top of the cheese. Spread jam on the bread again and repeat the process.

Crack the eggs into a bowl. Season with salt and pepper. Beat the eggs.

Dip the sandwich thoroughly in the beaten eggs. Coat with the bread crumbs.

Heat the oil or melt the butter in a pan. Fry the sandwich on both sides and four corners.

That’s it our tasty sandwich is ready.

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Monte Cristo sandwich

Ingredients

6 slices of toasted bread

8 sliced cheese

8 slices of ham or turkey

Strawberry jam

4 eggs, beaten

Salt and pepper to taste

Bread crumbs

Vegetable oil or butter

How to make it

Crack the eggs into a bowl. Season with salt and pepper. Beat the eggs.

Dip the sandwich thoroughly in the beaten eggs. Coat with the bread crumbs. Heat the oil or melt the butter in a pan. Fry the sandwich on both sides and four corners.

Tahchin Shevid- Baghali (Persian Dill & Broad Beans Rice Cake

Rice

Traditionally this rice dish is called Tahchin or upside down rice also known as Persian baked rice cake. Tahchin is an Iranian divine rice dish with beautiful presentation. It’s made of layered meat and rice. It may not look like much from the outside but the combination of cooked meat, yogurt, egg and aromatic spices with rice create a crunchy outer crust and soft inside rice. We Iranians love our Tahchin.

There are different versions of Tahchin made with red meat, chicken, and vegetables. My today’s Tahchin is made with combination of dill or (ُُ Shevid in Persian) and broad beans or (Baghali in Persian) with chicken .

Ingredients

3 cups Iranian rice ( due to it’s amazing aroma and taste)
400 g chicken fillet, cooked and diced
2 cups Broad beans or Fava beans, cooked
1 cup dried dill
500 g Greek yogurt
3 eggs
2 onions, finely chopped
1 tsp cardamom
3 tbsp Persian saffron water
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tbsp dried rose petals
Salt and pepper to taste
Vegetable oil

How to make it

Yogurt is important ingredient in making Tahchin. We need a sort of thick yogurt, therefore, I have used a traditional way that my mother used to apply and make a thick creamy yogurt by Pouring regular yogurt into a double layer of cheesecloth or kitchen cloth. Tied up the cloth.. Hang it over a bowl and leave to drain overnight. ( as you will see in the following photos).. You would see the liquid left in the bowl. Resulting is a thick yogurt. Wash the rice. Soak it in the salted water for 1 hour.

Meanwhile, fry the onion until slightly soft. Add diced chicken meat. Stir in salt- pepper, cardamom, cinnamon, dried rose petal, dried dill and Fava beans ( just keep 1 tbsp of Fava bean for later) for 2-3 minutes.

Now, In a bowl, mix yogurt with eggs, 2 tbsp of Persian saffron water, pinch of salt and pepper. Whisk it until combine well and set aside.

Pour water in a large pot and bring it to a boil. Drain salted water of rice and add the rice to the boiling water. Cook for 10 minutes.

Using a colander and drain the rice.Add half of the drained rice and half of the chicken mixture into the yogurt mixture bowl and gently blend together.

Pour some oil into a non stick pot or pan, spread 1 tbsp of plain fava bean on the bottom of the pot. Spread rice mixture into the pot ( as you see in the photos) and flatten with wooden spoon or spatula.

Then, layer second half of the chicken mixture around the edges of the surface. Finally, layer with second half of the white rice and cover the entire surface. Flatten the top with the back of a large spatula or spoon while pressing down( as you see in the photo). Pour 1 tbsp of saffron water over the rice.

Place the pot on medium heat for 5 minutes. Then lower the heat cover the pot with a lid and cook it for 45-60 minutes until the crust forms.

Once rice is done, let it cool for few minutes. Place a serving platter on top of the pot and gently turn the pot over, Voila you have a wonderful rice cake shape dish. Sooooooooo delish.

Fruit Cake

desserts

This is light fruit cake with candied orange, coloured cherries and raisins. A cake for four season. I love this beautiful cake , full of colours and flavour.

Ingredients

1 cup all purpose flour
2 eggs
1 cup white sugar
½ cup melted butter
1 tbsp baking powder
1 tbsp vanilla extract
5 tbsp milk
½ cup candied orange
½ cup candied cherry
1/3 cup raisins

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 180C.

In a bowl mix two eggs with sugar. Whisk for 5 minutes. Then add melted butter, baking powder and vanilla extract and whisk for 2 minutes. Now, add flour to the mixture in two steps. Keep stirring. Add milk and mix. Now you have a smooth batter. Finally add candied fruits and raisins. Mix all together.

Grease the baking pan with oil and line it with parchment paper. Spoon the mixture into the pan. Put the pan into the oven and bake for 60-70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean.

When cake is done , remove from the oven and let to cool in the pan.

Scrambled Eggs

Omelettes/ eggs

A delicious and popular dish in all over the world. It is made from beaten white and yolk eggs.

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Ingredients

2 eggs
20 g butter
1/2 tbsp. crème fraiche
Salt – Pepper to taste

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Instructions

Crack the eggs in a pot, add butter. Don’t add slat as it will cause watery eggs. Place the pot over low heat and start to stir slowly.

Keep stirring until eggs aقe runny. Remove from the heat, add cream fraiche, still keep stirring.

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Place it back on the heat and stir for 1 minute more. Now, you could add salt and pepper.

And serve it with toasted bread and fried cherry tomatoes.

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Sheermal Bread ( Naan Sheermal)

Bread, Ramadan ( Ramazan)

Sheermal/shirmal bread naan is a traditional mildly sweet flatbread in Iran. Sheer means milk in Persian language,and because the dough is kneaded with milk instead of water , it’s called sheermal, means a bread made with milk.

Sheermal bread is popular in Iran, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Semnan سمنان is located in South of foothills of Alborz Mountains. Semnan is one of historical and ancient cities of Iran, which was an important city throughout the era of the Persian Achaemenid Empire ( 550-330BC).

Anyway, if you travel to ancient city of Semnan and towns around Semnan, among the souvenirs of this city, such as pistachio, walnuts, local breads, silk made cloth, halva, candy sugar and fruit leather, Sheermal bread naan is very popular between tourists, that is baked in Seman city for over 100 years.

Sheermal bread naan is one of bread for month of Ramadan.

Ingredients

3 cups all purpose flour
1 cup warm milk
½ cup sugar
100 g melted butter
1 large egg, beaten
1 egg yolk, beaten as egg wash
1 tbsp dried yeast
½ tsp salt
Sesame seeds (optional)

Instructions

In a bowl, mix sugar, yeast, and milk warm together.

In other bowl mix flour with salt and then pour milk mixture, beaten egg, and melted butter in it. Combine together. Oil your hand and knead the dough with your hand for 6-7 minutes until is smooth and no longer sticky.

Cover the dough, and let to rest until double in size. You can leave the dough in a corner of your kitchen in room temperature , to rise but it will take long time dough double in size but if preheat the oven for few minutes, and then turn off the oven and by this way you can create a warm environment to speed the dough to proof and rising up.

Preheat the oven to 160C.Line your baking tray with parchment paper and once dough is ready, place it on the parchment paper. Sprinkle some flour top of it and deflate the dough.

Cover the dough and let to rest for another 20 minutes. Then give favourite decoration or design to the bread.

Egg wash top of the dough and garnish with sesame seeds. Sprinkle pinch of cinnamon powder on the dough. Transfer the dough into the oven and bake for 20-25 minutes until golden brown.

Green Beans Frittata ( Tabrizi Kookoo Loobia Sabz)

kookoo/ frittata, Ramadan ( Ramazan), Vegetarains

Kookoo lobia sabz is a traditional classic dish in Tabriz an ancient city in NW of Iran. This dish is served in especial occasions and for Iftar in month of Ramadan.

Tabrizi green beans is absolutely delicious, full of flavour and colour.

Kookoo ( kuku) in Iranian cuisine, applies to an eggy dish or an egg-based dish. Kookoo or frittata might be meatless that would be a vegetarian dish and sometimes is made with meat.

Kookoo is a mixture of whipped eggs with different ingredients.

Green beans is called loobia sabz in Farsi language. My today recipe is meatless kookoo loobia sabz but you can add 200g minced beef to the ingredients if you wish.

Ingredients

350 g baby green beans, finely diced and boiled
100 g carrots, finely diced and boiled
100 g potatoes, finely diced and fried
1 large onion, finely chopped and fried
5 eggs
2 tbsp chopped walnuts
1 tbsp flour
½ tsp baking powder
1 tbsp saffron water
1 tbsp milk
1 tsp turmeric
Salt and pepper to taste
Vegetable oil

Instructions

Crack the eggs into a large bowl. Add milk, chopped walnuts, flour, baking powder, saffron water, turmeric and season with salt and pepper. Whisk it well until all ingredients combine together. Saffron smell spread all over the kitchen and it’s lovely.

Next, add fried and boiled vegetables to the egg mixture. Mix all together.

Heat the oil in a deep pan, pour the mixture in the pan. Firmly press the ingredients with the back of the spoon to the down. Cover the pan with a lid and allow to cook on side ( about 10-15 minutes), then flip over to cook other side.

Serve it in a platter garnish with Zereshk (Barberries) and cut it into pieces.

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