Iran is a vast country with a wide range of subcultures, tastes, and food diversity, so much so that sometimes the taste of some of these foods and their ingredients seem strange even to the Iranian people themselves.
Carrot meatballs also known as Kermanshahi meatballs are one of the various types of meatballs cooked in Iran and among the most delicious and nutritious ones.
Iran is to hold the first International Gastronomy Festival with the main goal of bringing various countries and nations closer together through the means of food, said the director of the festival, Jalal Zokaee.
One of the most delicious homemade sweets prepared for the Persian New Year is Sohan Asali, which is a combination of honey and Sohan, a traditional saffron brittle toffee indigenous to Iran.
Barberry, also known as berberis, is a plant with lots of medical features used in many Iranian dishes, desserts and drinks. Medicines made of barberry have been used for 2,500 years for treating various diseases.
Sistan and Baluchestan province in south-eastern Iran is falsely known as “a deprived region” while it enjoys a wide range of unique attractions and natural resources, including exotic fruits.
Chickpea cookie is one of the most popular sweets baked for the Persian New Year holidays. It is served during Persian New Year visits among families and friends.
Meat & Bean, a delicious dish made with meat, beans, rice and dill, is one of the main and traditional foods of the city of Kashan in the central Iranian province of Isfahan.
Tanoorcheh is a traditional food and one of the most popular ones in Iran's southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, especially the port city of Chabahar.
Just days ahead of the Persian New Year or Nowruz, Iranian people from all walks of life begin to make home-made cookies as part of a traditional custom.
The Persian New Year or Nowruz is celebrated in a wide range of ways in different cities of Iran as there are many different ethnic groups and a great cultural diversity across the country. However, there are also some Nowruz customs that are the same among all the people living in Iran.
Some 15 men and women, who managed to give up drug addiction, have celebrated their feat by taking orders for food in a ceremony called “A Bite of Kindness.”
Saffron ice cream is one of the most popular and original desserts in Iranian culture. As its name suggests, saffron is one of the main ingredients of this type of ice cream.
Tabriz carrot stew is one of the most delicious and original dishes of Tabriz in northwest of Iran. It is both made with chicken and meat. They use chopped fried carrots in it. Contrary to what is supposed to be, this stew is not sweet and has a sour-sweet flavour due to using of plums. But you can add as much as sugar you want to make the food sweet.
A researcher of Iranian traditional medicine says there is some form of drink called Poleigamander that can lower blood sugar and increase concentration and mental ability.
