Torshi Makhloot - Persian Mixed Vegetable Pickle

Mixed vegetable pickles are usually served with rich and meaty dishes like abgousht (lamb stew), polow khoresh (rice and stew) dishes. Torshi is a very appetizing side dish and a great flavor enhancer. There are many different kinds of torshi. This is a traditional combination of vegetables, dried herbs and spices.

Torshi Makhloot - Mixed Vegetable Pickle

Ingredients:


3 large carrots,

Khoresh Bademjan - Eggplant Stew

Any dish with the combination of eggplants and tomatoes is just divine. If you happen to love eggplants and tomatoes this stew has them both, in addition to meat, split peas and sour grapes (ghooreh), which can be found in most Iranian grocery stores. This is a rich, flavorful recipe and one of the favorites among many Iranians.

Khoresh Bademjan - Eggplant Stew

Ingredients:
Serves 6

1

Kookoo Sabzi

Kookoo sabzi is another vegetable dish served during the Persian New Year (Nowruz) celebration. It's also a great one meal vegetarian dish made of several herbs (sabzi) and if you bake it in the oven rather than frying it on the stove it would absorb less oil, which is always a good thing for the heath conscious cook. Once you have all the vegetables cleaned, washed and chopped finely, the

Sabzi Polow Mahi - Herb Rice with Fish

Sabzi polow (herb rice) and mahi (fish) is one of the main traditional meals for Nowruz - Persian New Year. There's only few weeks left before Nowruz and I'm all ready for the cold winter to be over. The weather is still very cold, the grass is brown and there are no blossoms on the trees. However, yesterday I made Sabzi polow -herb rice with fried fish. These are traditionally served on New