IRANIAN FOOD

When you go to a restaurant or an Iranian family, you can see many varieties of traditional dishes as well as modern ones on their tables. Many kinds of foods which made of grains, vegetables, nuts and meat. In the menu you can see:

• Chelow Kebab: It is the most famous and delicious cuisine in Iran.
  It is made of rice(Chelow) and grind meat, lamb or beef (Kabab). Kabab has different kind with different taste. Like: Barg, Koobideh, Soltani, Chenjeh.

The other major food in Iran is "Pollo" or "Pollow"  which has different taste and made of different nuts and vegetables for example:

• Albalu Pollow: rice with black cherry and chickenand additional nuts which depend on your taste                            
• Loobia Pollow: rice with meat and beans( kidney beans or wax beans).
• Sabzi Pollow: rice with meat usually fish and especial vegetables (leek, tarragon, sweet basil and dill).

• Khorosht-e Ghorme Sabzi: cooked vegetables with chopped meat, kidney beans and additional spices like turmeric, pepper and salt.
• Khorosht-e Gheimeh: split pea ,meat ,potatoes and spices like turmeric, pepper and salt and ketchup and a little lemon.
• Khorosht-e Bademjan: fried eggplants, meat, tomato and spices like salt, pepper, turmeric and ketchup.

• Kookoo: is a mixture of some vegetables like parsleys and leek and any one that you like and chopped onion with an egg which are fried in oil.
• Kotlet: is a mixture of grind meat with an egg and chopped onions and spices which like kookoo it is shaped whatever you like usually oval-shaped.

Remember that the oil used to fry Kotlet and Kookoo is not very much.

Iran has also different kinds of salads and non-alcoholic drinks such as:
potato salad, Shirazi salad (mixture of cucumbers, tomatoes and onions with virulence ,salt and pepper), Fasl salad or vegetable salad.

Iran has an special drink called "Doogh". Doogh is a carbonated yoghurt drink and most of the time it has acerb taste.

Iran has many kinds of bread (that called Nan) but four of them are very famous:

• Nan-e Barbari: thick and oval-shape bread
• Nan-e Sangak: triangle-shape bread
• Nan-e lavash: thin, crispy and round or oval-shape bread.
• Nan-e taftun: thin, but thicker than lavash.

"Aash" and "Abgusht" or "Dizi" are other foods.

• Aash: is mixture of grains, meat and some vegetables like: Aash-e reshte, Aash-e doogh...
• Abgusht or Dizi: is a kind of Aash but it has lamp in it with potato and pea and some times beans and tomato sauce.