This was one of the first Persian dishes I ever ate, and it was in Geneva, Switzerland when I first met the man who was to become my father-in-law. What a wonderful dish and a great way to start my relationship with a wonderful man! It is still one of my favorite Persian dishes, but…
Category: Persian
Green Bean Polou (Persian Rice Pilaf)
Even though my green bean harvest was a bust, I have been able to piece together a few meals with what the caterpillars left me. I had just the right amount of green beans left to try a new Persian dish. The green beans get infused with lime flavor and baked into the rice. You…
Fried Eggplant Khoresh (Bademjun Sorkh Kardeh)
It was an exciting night for cooking, and a good thing I planned a dinner that could all be done on the stove top. Just as I was salting the eggplant and boiling the water to blanch the tomatoes, a storm blew through and we lost power for the next 2 hours. Because of…
Khoresh Bademjun – Persian Eggplant Stew
Khoresh Bademjun is the most often requested birthday dinner dish in our house. And we have to call it by its Persian name since Emily, who loves it, could not bring herself to eat eggplant, but as long as we called it khoresh bademjun, it was delicious. It takes a long time to prepare and…
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