Presentation of Persian and Azerbaijani meals, desserts and beverages.
Today I made Aash-e doogh (dovga aashi). Maybe you ask what is Aash? In Iranian cuisine there are two kinds of liquid food. Aash is a thick soup and exactly like soup made with variation of vegetables, or noodles,, stocks and spices. This dish is spelling: Ash, aash, aush, ashe. But soup is a thin and light…
A crazy couscous salad for Halloween. By the way i shared my this recipes for a competition in Cookpad UK and I was winner of the Cookpad UK , Halloween contest 2018. Ingredients 1 sachet couscous 2 beetroots, cooked 2-3 fresh or pickled onions 2 fresh mint leaves 3-4 cherry tomatoes 1 tbsp Olive oil…
Dolama or dolmeh is a tasty dish found in Iranian cuisine, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Greece, Arabic countries and Central Asia. The word dolma is a Turkish word and means to fill. Dolma is the Persian version of stuffed vegetables. You can use eggplant, zucchini, onion, or tomato and stuff with either ground beef or turkey and aromatic…
This is one of the tastiest vegetarian kebabs which is made with bread and vegetabls. It is simple but super tasty and easy to make it, with crispy texture, golden outside and fulllllllllllll of flavour. You may serve it with yogurt, sweet chilli sauce, any kind of chutney or ketchup. Ingredients 5 slices of fresh…
Dolma is an Azeri word and in cooking culture means stuffed or filled. There are many forms of dolma including: stuffed grape leaves, stuffed eggplant( aubergine), zucchini, tomato, bell pepper, onion, potato, cabbage leaves. The following recipe is an Azerbaijani recipe for dolma which is popular in Baku and Nakhchivan. This dolma is called Uch…
These lovely flowers made with fried sausages and eggs. Very easy and cute. Ingredients Sausages or hot dog eggs Fresh mint or dill leaves Salt and pepper to taste Butter or Oil Preparation Cut the sausage in half lengthwise. Slice halfway through sausages. Form the sausage into a circle and secure the ends with cocktail…
I cooked these lovely potato balls with sweet potato and white potato. Easy to make and tasty. Ingredients 1 large sweet potato 1 large white potato 1 large onion, finely chopped 1 tsp dried mint 1tsp beetroot powder Salt and pepper to taste Olive oil =================================================== Method Cook the potatoes until tender. Heat the oil…
In Iran we serve tea with sugars cubes (Qand ) as we say in Farsi , or with rock candy ( Nabaat). They are in different colours , flavor and size. So I decided to make them at home. However I thought it would be difficult or impossible but on the contrary, it was lots…
Meatballs are always popular and favourite dish. Today i made stuffed meat balls with quail eggs and Tahini sauce. Ingredients for meat balls 250g ground beef 2 large potatoes 1 egg 2 tomatoes quial eggs 1 clove of garlic 2 tbs dried parsley 1 tsp dried mint 1 tsp cumin Bread crumbs Salt – sweet chili…
This noodle soup is popular in NW of Iran. It has a sour/sweet taste due to vinegar and prunes in it.. This is a noodle soup with cereals, meat balls, fried onions and dried mint sauce. Ingredients 200g Persian noodles ( if it is not available you can use egg noodles instead of Persian noodles)…