Ok we have: sabzeh, senjed, sib, seer, samanu, serkeh, and sumac…

[KittenKong]

We have a mirror. No goldfish were harmed.

Anyone else? 🎉

Happy Nowrooz! What lovely treats 😋

That food looks so good 😋

@Nnique

One of the dishes looked similar to that rice dish, are those crispy potatoes laid across the top?

I think it is - when you steam the rice. At the the bottom of the pan you get a layer of golden crispy rice (tadhig). Don’t ever pay extra for this on a restaurant - a chef I know told me that they use yesterdays rice….

You can also place potato slices on the bottom of the pan for potato tadhig which it really good.

How is it new year!? It's March 🤣

Ye olde calendar - I guess spring really is the start of new year - wee lambs, trees and blossom, flowers blooming etc…

I’ve decided I’m going to make a Persian lamb pilaf on Saturday. I’m soo in the mood for something delicious now. 😊

Happy New Year!

Could you put goldfish crackers in the bowl instead?

Do yourself a favour and try fesenjan - it’s a walnut and plum sauce (usually chicken or duck) but it’s bloody lovely. Easy to make.

@addler

Happy New Year!

Could you put goldfish crackers in the bowl instead?

They’d go squishy! I had a wind up bath toy one year. It was a deep sea diver but it did the trick!

We have no senjed and I don’t know where to get it from. I have made samanu

@Floydthebarber

Is this going to be play out like that bloody word riddle from a couple of years ago that just turned out to be the most infuriating troll thread ever?

If you mean Boswell it was later solved.

@KittenKong yes that’s what they did- potatoes at the bottom to get crispy, then layered with saffron rice, onion and peppers, meat patties, beef tomato slices, plain rice and more saffron rice, plus probably more things that I’m forgetting. It looked so good,

@KittenKong

Ye olde calendar - I guess spring really is the start of new year - wee lambs, trees and blossom, flowers blooming etc…

Your way definitely makes more sense. NYE on 31 December is crap.

@KittenKong

Do yourself a favour and try fesenjan - it’s a walnut and plum sauce (usually chicken or duck) but it’s bloody lovely. Easy to make.

I’ve looked it up and I’m definitely going to make that! Might have to wait ‘til next weekend though as I don’t have pomegranate molasses or aubergine. We’ll do our monthly shop on Monday I think so perfect timing. 😊 Thank you for sharing your foods and customs around the New Year, I’ll read up on it some more too.

Well it’s cold and wet and dark so we need a bit of cheering up!

persianrecipes.org/recipe/kookoo-sabzi-herb-frittata/

I use a mix of fresh and fried herbs (if your granny doesn’t send them you can buy the mixes for sabzi / gormeh polo)

Oh how lovely.

Happy Nowruz!!!

The food looks amazing!!!

I'm making sabzi polo mahi and baghali polo the day before ☺

Happy Nowruz! We are off to my Iranian colleague’s house this weekend for lots of food. Any ideas on presents?

@eglantine7

I'm making sabzi polo mahi and baghali polo the day before ☺

This thread is making me so hungry!!!!!

Flowers are traditional (hyacinth in a pot) - cookies too. Wine if they drink - you can get fancy fizzy grape or apple juice of they don’t.

If you want to go old school - candles (the whole fire thing) or you can buy decorated eggs (if you have a Persian shop nearby - you’ll know of you do it will be lit up like Blackpool illuminations right now). These are traditional designs.

Peacocks are the monarchist symbol (best to know their politics I guess!). A few years back I bought a beautiful stained glass peacock on Amazon.

I made baghali polo for the first time in donkeys recently - the look on DS’s face! You’d have thought I’d presented him with a dead rat. Oh well - he is a rice monster but draws the line at ‘green stuff’ - will eat loobia (mmmmmmm) at a push but prefers zereshk or adas (without the raisins).

I’m actually hankering after some dampokhtack now. On gormeh sabzi.

Hungry now 😋

Happy New Year