Love any of these recipes? Tap "Save" to add them to MyRecipes, your new, free recipe box for Food & Wine. Though this recipe can be made with plain whole-milk yogurt, it's worth seeking out Iranian ...

We have yet to get to Johns Creek to enjoy a meal at Persian Basket Kitchen & Bar, but recently we were treated to one of its new offerings: a prepared Persian meal they ship directly to your door.

To get you started, I’ve put together a list of essential ingredients for cooking Persian recipes. (For some, I’ve included the Romanized pronunciation of the Persian language names.) Many of these ...

Must-o-Khiar. Photo from Pinterest. The best recipes are those that come with stories, or at least, context. Persian food has variations of “peasant food,” as well as more intricate dishes but I ...

Ab-doogh kiar is a chilled Persian yogurt soup loaded with fresh herbs, chopped cucumbers and radishes — all signs of spring in a bowl. Chef-owner Arash Ghasemi of Walnut Creek’s Main Street Kitchen & ...

IN MY CHILDHOOD home, we did holidays our own way. On the same table you might encounter a pan of potato latkes sizzling in fat, a bowl of fluffy Persian rice and a tin of butter cookies topped with ...

Mealtimes by the Caspian Sea were always displays of abundance. Omid Roustaei's extended family would gather every summer, swimming at the beach in the morning and returning to mounds of food at the ...

On chilly days, nothing beats a warm bowl of soup. Mica from Pomella Restaurant in Oakland shows off how to cook up vibrant and flavorful Persian Lime and Herb Soup. Get top local stories in Southern ...

Baker Sean Nguyen, aka @seann_cooks, surprised his friend Ernika Rabiei by making Iranian pastry shrini danmarki. Her ...

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It is the kind of late-February afternoon that hints at spring. Najmieh Batmanglij is in her element — cooking in the large room graced with tones of honeyed oak, smooth stone relics and the sunlight ...