sibzamini – Rozina's Persian Kitchen

Potato stuffed bread (Naan shekampour)

One of the easiest and tastiest bread you ever had. Preparing the dough does not need any yeast , baking soda or baking powder. Very easy peasy. I stuffed my bread with potato and some vegetables but you can fill it with any kind of meat or herbs and vegetables. The most important point is to make a good dough and then you can go on with your favourite fillings.

Traditionally this wonderful bread is baked on a brick or stone griddle but nowadays, if you want to bake it at home, you can use a pan, as I did. Today, I made potato stuffed bread and seriously it is just delicious naan bread.

I have loads of bread ( naan) recipes such as: pan fried naan, keema naan, sheermal bread, kelane naan bread, pitta bread, naan Barbari, onion spiral bread, naan fateer, olive bread, spicy lentil flat bread, garlic bread, Indian chickpea flat bread, country bread, paratha bread, garlic-rosemary bread, stuffed rose shaped bread, bread sticks with green olives. You can find them here in my web page.

Ingredients for dough

3 cups or 450 g all purpose flour
200ml water
2 tsp salt
1 tsp vegetable oil

Ingredients for fillings

400g potatoes, boiled, peeled and chopped
2 medium onions, peeled and fined chopped
3 fresh spring onions, finely chopped
3 fresh coriander, finely chopped
1 tsp coriander powder
1 tsp cumin powder
½ tsp chilli flakes
½ tsp turmeric
1 tsp paprika powder
Salt to taste
Olive oil

How to make it??

In a large bowl, add flour, salt and oil. Mix together. Then slowly add water. Combine well and knead the dough for few minutes. Cover the dough and keep it for 30 minutes to rest.

Once dough is ready, grease your hand with oil and knead the dough again for 1-2 minutes. Now divide it into small or big portions, it depends on you.

Take a portion of dough and with a rolling pin flat the dough on a floured surface. Top it with stuffing ingredients and then lift the dough from all sides ( as you see in the photos).

Gently flatten the dough ball with rolling pin. Heat a pan, spread a little bit of oil in the pan and place the dough on the pan.

Bake each side for 3 minutes then flip over and bake other side.

نان شکم پرسیب زمینی

یکی از آسان‌ترین و خوشمزه ترین نان‌هایی هست که می تونید امتحان کنید. تهیه ی خمیر این نان نیازی به خمیر مایه – بیکینگ پودر و بیکینگ سودا نداره . داخل نان با سیب زمینی و چند سبزی دیگه پر شده ولی کلن میتونید هر چی خودتون دوست داشتید از انواع گوشت و سوسیس و کالباس یا سبزیجات و ادویه ها انتخاب کنید و داخل خمیر قرار بدید. نکته ی مهم درست کردن این خمیر خوب هست.

اگراز پخت نان خانگی در منزل لذت می برید می‌توانید دستور های مختلف انواع نان رو که من در کوکپد به اشتراک گذاشتم را هم امتحان کنید: نانهایی مانند : نان پیتا– نان سیب زمینی هندی – نان زیتون خانگی– نان با نخود آبگوشتی– نان عدس– نان سیر دار– نان زیتون و سبزیجات– نان سیرگره دار– نان پیازی– قیمه نان هندی – نان تست املتی– نان زیتون اسپانیایی– نان شکم پر با طرح گل رز–نان شیرمال– نان کلانه یا بولانی– نان هندی پاراتا – نان فوق سریع – نان بربری– نان سنگک– نان پیاز حلزونی – نان مافین آرد گندم …..

مواد لازم

سه پیمانه آرد

دویست میلی لیتر آب

دو ق چ نمک

یک ق چ روغن مایع

مواد لازم داخل نان

چهار صد گرم سیب زمینی آبپز شده– پوست گرفته و خرد شده

دو عدد پیاز متوسط پوست گرفته – و نگینی خرد شده

سه شاخه پیازچه ریز خرد شده

سه شاخه گشنیز ریز خرد شده

یک ق چ تخم گشنیز

یک ق چ پودر زیره

نصف ق چ فلفل

نصف ق چ زردچوبه

یک ق چ پودر پاپریکا – پاپریکا فلفل شیرین هست که رنگ و طعم خیلی خوبی به غذا میدهد

نمک به میزان لازم

روغن زیتون

طرز تهیه

داخل یک‌کاسه ی بزرگ آرد – نمک و روغن را با هم مخلوط کنید. آب را کم کم روی آرد ریخته و هم بزنید تا خمیر درست شود. خمیر را برای 3-2 دقیقه با دست ورز دهید. سپس روی خمیر را با یک دستمال پوشانده تا برای نیم ساعت استراحت کند.

در این میان– مواد داخل نان را آماده کنید: روغن را در تابه گرم کرده و پیاز را کمی تفت دهید تا نرم شود. سپس سبزیجات خرد شده و سیب زمینی را روی پیاز ریخته و تمام ادویه ها را هم اضافه کنید . به آرامی مواد را با هم هم بزنید و برای دو سه دقیقه آن‌ها را سرخ کرده و کنار بگذارید تا خنک شود.

وقتی خمیر آماده شد دست خود را کمی با روغن چرب کنید و باز خمیر را یکی دو دقیقه ورز داده و بعد خمیر را به چانه های کوچک یا بزرگ تقسیم کنید ( سایز چانه ها بستگی به میل خودتان دارد). یکی از چانه ها را روی سطح آردی گذاشته و با وردنه آن را باز کنید. . مقداری از مواد سرخ شده را وسط خمیر گذاشته – خمیر را روی مواد میانی تا کرده ( مطابق تصاویر) و لبه ها را بهم بچسبانید. سپس با وردنه و خیلی به آرامی روی خمیر فشار دهید تا باز شود.. این عمل را برای باقی خمیرها هم انجام داده و همه را آماده کنید.

یک ق چ روغن داخل تابه گرم ریخته و خمیرآماده شده را در تابه قرار داده و بگذارید برای دو سه دقیقه زیر خمیر بپزد. سپس کمی روغن روی نان بزنید و آن را پشت و رو کنید تا سمت دیگر نان هم بپزد.

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Potato stuffed bread ( naan shekampour )

Ingredients for dough

3 cups all purpose flour
200ml water
2 tsp salt
1 tsp vegetable oil

Ingredients for fillings

400g potatoes, boiled, peeled and chopped
2 medium onions, peeled and fined chopped
3 fresh spring onions, finely chopped
3 fresh coriander, finely chopped
1 tsp coriander powder
1 tsp cumin powder
½ tsp chilli flakes
½ tsp turmeric
1 tsp paprika powder
Salt to taste
Olive oil

How to make it??

In a large bowl, add flour, salt and oil. Mix together. Then slowly add water. Combine well and knead the dough for few minutes. Cover the dough and keep it for 30 minutes to rest.

Meanwhile prepare ingredients for filling. Heat the oil in a skillet, and sauté chopped onion until soft. Then add chopped green herbs, and potatoes. Season with all spices. Mix everything well and fry for 2-3 minutes and set aside. Once dough is ready, grease your hand with oil and knead the dough again for 1-2 minutes. Now divide it into small or big portions, it depends on you.

Take a portion of dough and with a rolling pin flat the dough on a floured surface. Top it with stuffing ingredients and then lift the dough from all sides ( as you see in the photos). Gently flatten the dough ball with rolling pin. Heat a pan, spread a little bit of oil in the pan and place the dough on the pan. Bake each side for 3 minutes then flip over and bake other side.

Potato Samosa

samosa, dumpling, Vegetarains

Samosa or as we say in Farsi sambose is a fried , boiled or baked pastry with different filling such as vegetables, meat and spices.

Nowadays, samosa is a very popular dish in most of countries. In my country Iran, In South and East of country samosa is a snack but in old days it was as a main course in Khorasan province( East) of Iran. Preparing this dish is very easy .

Ingredients

Filo pastry
2 cooked boiled potatoes, peeled and cut into cubes
Small bunch of parsley
½ tsp turmeric powder
Salt and pepper to taste
2 tbsp. flour
butter
Oil

Preparation

Finely chop parsley. Heat the oil in a pan. Add chopped potatoes, parsley, turmeric, season with salt and chilli. Saute for 2-3 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat.
Mix 2 tbsp .flour with 2-3 tbsp. water and set aside.

Brush melted butter on a sheet of filo pastry. Put one full spoon of potato mixture on filo pastry and roll it. Do not overfill because will be difficult to roll up. Then, apply flour glue on two ends of rolled filo and fold it upon, and seal two ends properly. Repeat with remaining of ingredients.
Heat the oil in a pan and deep fry rolled pastries until golden brown. Drain on paper towel to get rid of extra oil. Serve this tasty crunchy samosa with pickled jalapeno .

Samosa

Ingredients

Filo pastry
2 cooked boiled potatoes, peeled and cut into cubes
Small bunch of parsley
½ tsp turmeric powder
Salt and pepper to taste
2 tbsp. flour
butter
Oil

Preparation

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.

Basturma or Basdirma Polo

Rice

Basturma or Basdirma polow /pilaf is a traditional Azerbaijani rice dish that is popular in Ardebil an ancient city near Caspian Sea.

The meaning of the word ‘ Basturma or Basdirma’ translates as ‘ to press’ or ‘ pressed’. An other literally meaning of this word is ‘ buried’. Why the name of this dish is Basturma polow? Well I would say, because meat mixture of this dish would be placed between layers of rice and looks like hidden and buried, so is invisible until to be served.

Flavour and taste of this dish with quince and medlar jam is fantastic.One of Ingredients for this amazing dish are quince and medlar jam or marmalade. Flavour and taste of this dish with quince and medlar jam and saffron is fantastic.

Duck, lamb shank, beef and chicken might be used for this rice dish. I have tried with all and I prefer with red meat and has much better taste, but yet it’s your choice 🙂

Ingredients

3 cups Persian or Basmati rice
1 cup crushed walnuts
300g diced meat
2 large onions, finely chopped
3-4 tbsp saffron water
½ cup quince jam
½ cup medlar jam
1 large potato, peeled and thinly sliced
Pinch of pepper
butter
vegetable oil

Method

Wash the rice and soak in salted water for 2 hours.

In a pot with water and one of chopped onions, add diced meat and cook the meat until tender. Heat the oil in a pan and saute other onion on medium heat until soft. Add pinch of pepper, cooked meat, 2 tbps of saffron water, quince and medlar jams and crushed walnuts. Gently mix all together. Let to fry for 3-4 minutes on medium heat. Remove from the heat and set aside.

Bring the water to a boil, drain salted water of rice and add rice to the boiled water and cook for 10 minutes. Then using a colander and drain parboiled rice.

Add 3 tbsp vegetable oil to the pot. Set slices of potato at the bottom of the pot. Cover top of potatoes with one cup of rice. Then spread meat mixture all over the rice. Finally spread remaining of the rice top of the meat. Press down the rice. Add rest of saffron water and 1 tbsp butter on the rice and cook the rice on medium heat.

Once rice is ready, hold serving platter over the uncovered pot and unmolding the rice into the platter. Voila you have such a lovely golden crust rice..Serve this dish with pickles specially with olives.

Thanks for reading this recipe. I would be glad have your comments.

Persian style meatballs spaghetti

pasta/ spaghetti/ macaroni

Dear friends, please do not forget this is a Persian style spaghetti so do not surprise if the method of preparation is a little bit different because In Iran we cook pasta like cook the rice. It means first simmer spaghetti in boiling water and then steamed. So we treat pasta like rice, it means in the process of cooking, we cover bottom of the pot with a slice of a flat bread or thinly slices of potatoes or simply plain noodles. BUT BUT BUT, at the end result is amazing and you will have tasty macaroni plus crispy bread, potatoes or noodles from bottom of the pot.

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Ingredients

150 g spaghetti
200 g ground beef
1 medium onion, grated
1 bell pepper, finely chopped
1 potato, thinly sliced
1 can tomato, diced
3 Tbsp tomato paste
Salt- chilli powder to taste
1 Tsp turmeric
1 Tsp cinnamon
Extra olive oil

Preparation

In a bowl with ground beef, add grated onion. Season with salt- pepper, and also add turmeric and cinnamon. Mix all ingredients together well. Give small ball shapes to the meat and fry them in a pan until meatballs are brown. Then, add tomato paste to the meat balls and heat for 2 minutes and set aside.

In a separate pan, heat the oil and saute chopped bell peppers for 5 minutes. Add diced can tomato to the bell pepper and fry for 2-3 minutes, then pour fried bell pepper and tomatoes over the meat balls, gently stir. Your sauce is ready.

Now, in a pot, bring to boil water, add some salt, 1 Tbsp oil and spaghetti. Cook it for 10 minutes then drain the spaghetti using a colander.

Now pour 3 Tbsp oil in the pot, let it hot, then lay on sliced potatoes as you see in the image, then pour par cooked spaghetti top of the potatoes and at the end pour meatballs over the spaghetti. Cover the pot with a lid and let spaghetti cook for 20minutes over medium to low heat.

Once spaghetti is cooked , you would serve spaghetti but there is surprise at the bottom of pot, yes it’s crispy fried potatoes that is called ‘ tah dig’ in Persian cuisine and it is speciality of Iranian cuisine.

Serve the dish with pesto and salad. Bon appetite

همه نزدیک2 تکی عالی

Coloured potato balls

finger food, Vegetarains

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

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Method

Cook the potatoes until tender.

Heat the oil in a pan, and fry the chopped onion until golden brown. Set aside.

In a bowl with beetroot powder add half of white potato and mash it. Then add salt, pepper, some of fried onion and mix well.

In other bowl, with dried mint, add other half of white potato. Mash it. Then add some of fried onion and seasoning with salt and pepper. Mix well.

In third bowl mash the sweet potato. Add some fried onion, and season with salt and pepper. Mix well. Give small ball shape to the mashed potatoes and serve it warm or cold.

Tah Dig

Rice, Vegetarains

Tahdig, which is literally means ‘ the bottom of the pot’ is speciality of Iranian cuisine consisting of crispy, crunchy, golden browned layer of either rice – bread, potatoes or meat taken from the bottom of the pot , while the rice on the top steams.
And usually in serving time of meal there is big battle for having more tahdig and when you have it, it will disappear quickly from the table with no leftover.

Most common ingredients for making tahdig include yogurt and saffron, bread, or potato . In some countries with rice eating culture, you can find a kind of tahdig . For instance: In China tahdig is called ‘Guoba’ forms during the boiling of rice over direct heat from a flame.

ته دیگ
In Spanish cuisine ‘ Socarrat’, the rice that gets crunchy and forms a crust at the bottom of the pan.

In Korean cuisine’ Nurungji’ is Korean type of tah dig at the bottom of the pot when rice is hard boiled.

In Dominican foods there is ‘ Concon’ which is a thin layer of burned rice from the bottom of the pot.
For making tadig, as I mentioned there are different ingredients and methods. In order to achieve tah dig, you need to put extra oil in the bottom of the pot. Popular one is to cover the bottom of the pot with a layer of flat and thin lavash bread or tortilla bred and then topping it with rice.
Other tah dig is to line the bottom of the pot with slices of potatoes before topping it with the rice.

Very basic and simplest tahdig is to use plain rice. The rice should be toasted and making a crackling sound. This is tahdig.
There is other technique to mix rice with yogurt, curry spices and saffron. Result would be colourful saffroni and curry flavour with thick pan-fried texture.
At the end, in Persian cuisine tah dig can be considered a ‘delicacy’.

You can visit my video about making tah dig in youtube: Tah Dig by Rozina Dinaa

Mashed Potato Grilled Sandwich with Cheddar Cheese

Sandwich, Vegetarains

Potato, potato, potato. Whatever you make with potatoes are yummy. Taste of mashed potatoes with cheddar cheese and jalapeno peppers is just delicious. You can use any bread you prefer. It is pretty easy and quick to make.

Ingredients
2 large potatoes
100 g cheddar cheese , shredded
2 Tbsp pickled jalapeno pepper, chopped
Persian Lavash bread or any flat bread like tortilla bread
Salt to taste

Method
Boil potatoes until they are cooked. Peel them. Mash potatoes in a large bowl. Add shredded cheese, jalapeno pepper and salt. Mix very well. Check the seasoning.

Take some portion of potato mixture and spread over the bread. Place sandwiches in the sandwich maker, cover it and let to grill for 3-4 minutes.
If there is left some of potato mixture, simply make potato-cheese balls and serve it with potato sandwiches. Both are very tasty.

Spicy Fried Potatoes

Vegetarains

This spicy potatoes with aromatic spices, looks beautiful and easy to prepare.

Spicy fried potatoes
Ingredients
200 g baby potatoes
50 g butter
1 Tsp cumin
1 Tsp ground coriander
1/3 Tsp chilli flakes
Salt to taste

Method
Bring a pot of salted water to a boil. Add potatoes’ and cook until tender. Drain cooked potatoes.

Melt the butter in a pan, add all above mentioned spices and fry for 1 minute until fragrant. Tip in cooked potatoes and toss until they are coated with spices. Then fry potatoes for few minutes and SERVE it.

Potato Cakes

cutlet/ pattie, Vegetarains

These potato cakes are superb and easy to prepare. No need to eggs or meat or flour. Just easy peasy recipe for making potato cakes or kookoo.

Potato cakes
Ingredients
3 potatoes, cooked
1 small onion, finely chopped
1 small bunch of parsley, finely chopped
½ Tsp cumin powder
½ Tsp turmeric
Salt and chilli flakes to taste
Oil

Method
Peel off potatoes. In a pot with salted water, cook potatoes. Let they cool. Mash potatoes. Add chopped onion , parsley and spices.

Combine all together very well. Heat the oil in the pan, take small portion of potato mixture and give a round or flat shape. Fry in the pan 3-4 minutes , flip over and fry other side as well.