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Chelow kabab is considered to be the national dish of Iran.[1]

Iranian cuisine is the culinary traditions of Iran. Due to the historically common usage of the term "Persia" to refer to Iran in the Western world,[2][3][4] it is alternatively known as Persian cuisine, despite Persians being only one of a multitude of Iranian ethnic groups who have contributed to Iran's culinary traditions.[a]

Iran has a variety of 2,500 types of traditional food, one of the richest in the world.

Muslim rule on the Indian subcontinent, with the most notable and impactful of these polities being the Mughal Empire.[11][12][13]

Typical Iranian main dishes are combinations of rice with meat, vegetables and nuts. Herbs are frequently used, along with fruits such as plums, pomegranates, quince, prunes, apricots and raisins. Characteristic Iranian spices and flavourings such as saffron, cardamom, and dried lime and other sources of sour flavoring, cinnamon, turmeric and parsley are mixed and used in various dishes.

Outside of Iran, a strong presence of Iranian cuisine can be found in cities with significant

Washington Metropolitan Area, Vancouver, Toronto,[14][15][16][17] Houston and especially Los Angeles and its environs.[14][15][18]

History

Among the writings available from the

Sassanid period are found as valid references in compiling the history of cooking in Iran. The names of many of the Iranian dishes and culinary terms that have been translated can be seen in Arabic language books. Naturally the customs and habits of the Arabs influenced the Iranians [citation needed], specifically in Abbasid period
.

Ancient Persian philosophers and physicians have influenced the preparation of Iranian foods to follow the rules of the strengthening and weakening characteristics of foods based on the Iranian traditional medicine.[19]

Historical Iranian cookbooks

Although the Arabic cookbooks written under the rule of the Abbasid Caliphate—one of the Arab caliphates which ruled Iran after the Muslim invasion—include some recipes with Iranian names, the earliest surviving classical cookbooks in Persian are two volumes from the Safavid period. The older one is entitled "Manual on cooking and its craft" (Kār-nāmeh dar bāb e tabbāxī va sanat e ān) written in 927/1521 for an aristocratic patron at the end of the reign of Ismail I. The book originally contained 26 chapters, listed by the author in his introduction, but chapters 23 through 26 are missing from the surviving manuscript. The recipes include measurements for ingredients—often detailed directions for the preparation of dishes, including the types of utensils and pots to be used—and instructions for decorating and serving them. In general, the ingredients and their combinations in various recipes do not differ significantly from those in use today. The large quantities specified, as well as the generous use of such luxury ingredients as saffron, suggest that these dishes were prepared for large aristocratic households, even though in his introduction, the author claimed to have written it "for the benefit of the nobility, as well as the public."

The second surviving Safavid cookbook, entitled "The substance of life, a treatise on the art of cooking" (Māddat al-ḥayāt, resāla dar ʿelm e ṭabbāxī), was written about 76 years later by a chef for

Abbas I. The introduction of that book includes elaborate praise of God, the prophets, the imams, and the shah, as well as a definition of a master chef. It is followed by six chapters on the preparation of various dishes: four on rice dishes, one on qalya, and one on āsh. The measurements and directions are not as detailed as in the earlier book. The information provided is about dishes prepared at the royal court, including references to a few that had been created or improved by the shahs themselves. Other contemporary cooks and their specialties are also mentioned.[20]

Staple foods

Rice

The usage of rice, at first a specialty of the Safavid Empire's court cuisine, evolved by the end of the 16th century CE into a major branch of Iranian cookery.[21] Traditionally, rice was most prevalent as a major staple item in northern Iran and the homes of the wealthy, while bread was the dominant staple in the rest of the country.

Varieties of rice in Iran include gerde, domsia (literally meaning black-tail, because it is black at one end), champa, doodi (smoked rice), Lenjan (from Lenjan County), Tarom (from Tarom County), and anbarbu.

The following table includes three primary methods of cooking rice in Iran.

Method Description
Polow and chelow Chelow is plain rice served as an accompaniment to a stew or kebab, while polow is rice mixed with something. They are, however, cooked in the same way. Rice is prepared by soaking in salted water and then boiling it. The parboiled rice (called chelow) is drained and returned to the pot to be steamed. This method results in exceptionally fluffy rice with the rice grains separated and not sticky. A golden crust called
tahdig
 or tadig is created at the bottom of the pot using a thin layer of bread or potato slices. Often, tahdig is served plain with only a rice crust. Meat, vegetables, nuts, and fruit are sometimes added in layers or mixed with the chelow and then steamed. When chelow is in the pot, the heat is reduced, and a thick cloth or towel is placed under the pot lid to absorb excess steam.
Kateh Rice that is cooked until the water is absorbed completely. It is the traditional dish of
Gilan Province
.
Dami Rice that is cooked almost the same as kateh, but at the start, ingredients that can be cooked thoroughly with the rice (such as grains and beans) are added. While making kateh, the heat is reduced to a minimum until the rice and other ingredients are almost cooked. If kept long enough on the stove without burning and over-cooking, dami and kateh can also produce tahdig. A special form of dami is tachin, which is a mixture of yogurt, chicken (or lamb), and rice, plus saffron and egg yolks.
  • Iranian-style rice-cooking
    Iranian-style rice-cooking
  • Soaking rice in a pot
    Soaking rice in a pot
  • Using potatoes as tahdig in chelow-style rice-cooking
    Using potatoes as
    tahdig
    in chelow-style rice-cooking
  • Potato tahdig
    Potato
    tahdig
  • Tahdig of lavash bread
    Tahdig of lavash
    bread

Bread

Second only to rice is the production and use of wheat. The following table lists several forms of flatbread and pastry bread commonly used in Iranian cuisine.

Lavash: Thin, flaky, and round or oval. It is the most common bread in Iran and the Caucasus.
Sangak: Plain, rectangular, or triangle-shaped leavened flatbread that is stone-baked.
Taftun: Thin, soft and round-shaped leavened flatbread that is thicker than lavash.
Qandi bread: A sweet bread, sometimes brioche-like and sometimes flat and dry.[22]
Barbari: Thick and oval flatbread; also known as Tabrizi, referring to the city of Tabriz.
Baguette: A long, narrow French loaf, typically filled with sausages and vegetables.
Sheermal ("milk-rubbed"): A sweet pastry bread, also widely known as nan-e gisou
Komaj: A sweet date bread with turmeric and cumin, similar to nan e gisu.[23]

Fruits and vegetables

The

figs, apricots, plums and peaches are served instead. Southern Iran is one of the world's major date producers, where some special cultivars such as the Bam date
are grown.

Vegetables such as

salt, chili, and garlic
.

Fruit dolma is probably a specialty of Iranian cuisine. The fruit is first cooked, then stuffed with meat, seasonings, and sometimes tomato sauce. The dolma is then simmered in meat broth or ascallions sweet-and-sour sauce.[26]

Verjuice, a highly acidic juice made by pressing unripe grapes or other sour fruit, is used in various Iranian dishes.[27] It is mainly used within soup and stew dishes, but also to simmer a type of squash dolma. Unripe grapes are also used whole in some dishes such as khoresh-e ghooreh (lamb stew with sour grapes). As a spice, verjuice powder (pudr-e ghooreh) is sometimes reinforced by verjuice and then dried.

Typical spices

A spice bowl in a shop at the Vakil Bazaar of Shiraz
bazaar of Isfahan

Advieh or chāshni refers to a wide variety of pungent vegetables and dried fruits that are used in Iranian cuisine to flavor food.

One of the traditional and most widespread Iranian spices is saffron, derived from the flower of Crocus sativus. Rose water, a flavored water made by steeping rose petals in water, is also a traditional and common ingredient in many Iranian dishes.

Persian hogweed (golpar), which grows wild in the humid mountainous regions of Iran, is used as a spice in various Iranian soups and stews. It is also mixed with vinegar into which broad beans are dipped before eating.

Some other common spices are cardamom, made from the seeds of several Elettaria and Amomum plants; shevid, an annual herb in the celery family Apiaceae; mahleb, an aromatic spice made from the seeds of Prunus mahaleb; and limu amani, dried lime.

There are also several traditional combinations of spices, two of which are arde (Tahini), made from toasted ground hulled sesame seeds, and delal sauce, made of heavily salted fresh herbs such as cilantro and parsley.

Typical food and drinks

Typical Iranian cuisine includes a wide variety of dishes, including several forms of kebab, stew, soup, and pilaf dishes, as well as various salads, desserts, pastries, and drinks.

Main course

Kebab

In Iran, kebabs are served either with rice or

with bread. A dish of chelow white rice with kebab is called chelow kabab, which is considered the national dish of Iran. The rice can also be prepared using the kateh method, and hence the dish would be called kateh kebab
.

The following table lists several forms of kebab used in Iranian cuisine.

Kabab Koobideh: Barbecued ground lamb or beef, mixed with parsley and onion.
Jujeh Kabab: Grilled chunks of chicken; one of the most common dishes in Iran.[28]
Kabab Barg: Barbecued and marinated lamb, chicken or beef.
Mazenderan
, marinated in a paste of crushed walnuts, pomegranate juice, and olive oil.
Kabab Bakhtyari: Mixture of barbecued fillet of lamb (or veal) and chicken breast.[29]
Chenje: Skewered and grilled cubes of meat. Iranian equivalent of shish kebab.[30]
Shashlik: A popular form of shish kebab. In Iranian cuisine, shashlik is usually in form of large chunks.
Kabab Tabei: Homemade grilled meat, prepared on the pan.[31]
Bonab Kabab: A type of kebab that is made of ground mutton, onion, and salt in the city of Bonab.

Stew

Khoresh is an Iranian form of stew, which is usually accompanied by a plate of white rice. A khoresh typically consists of herbs, fruits, and meat pieces, flavored with tomato paste, saffron, and pomegranate juice. Other non-khoresh types of stew such as dizi are accompanied by bread instead of rice.

Several Iranian stew dishes are listed within the following table.

Khoresh-e Bademjan: Eggplant stew with tomato, verjuice and saffron.
Khoresh-e Fesenjan: Stew flavored with pomegranate syrup and ground walnuts.
Khoresh-e Qeyme: Stew with split peas, French fries, and dried lime.
Qormeh Sabzi: Stew with herbs such as parsley, leek, cilantro, and fenugreek.
Khoresh-e Karafs: Stewed celery and meat.[32]
Khoresh-e Alu: Stewed prunes and meat.[33]
Khoresh-e Alu Esfenaj: Stewed prunes, spinach, and meat.[34][35]
Khoresh-e Havij: Stewed carrots and meat.[36]
Khoresh-e Qarch: Mushroom stew.[37]
Baqala Qatoq: Gilak stew with fava beans
, dill, and eggs.
Dizi (piti): Mutton stew with chickpeas and potatoes.
Kuft-e Rize: Azerbaijani and Kurdish meatball stew.
Khoresh-e Bamieh: Okra and meat stew. Khoresh-e Kadu: Stewed zucchini and meat.

Soup and āsh

There are various forms of soup in Iranian cuisine, including sup e jow (

āsh in Iran, which is an Iranian traditional form of soup.[38] Also, shole qalamkar is the Iranian term for "hodge-podge" soup,[39]
a soup made of a mixture of various ingredients.

The following table lists a number of soup and āsh dishes in Iranian cuisine.

Soup-e Morgh: Chicken and noodle soup.[40]
Soup-e Jow: Barley soup.[41]
Sirabi: Tripe soup; also known as sirab shirdun.[42]
Tarkhineh: Grain and yoghurt soup.
Gazaneh: Nettle soup.
Adasi: Lentil soup.
Āsh-e Reshte
: Noodle thick soup.
Āsh-e Anār: Pomegranate thick soup.
Āsh-e Doogh: Buttermilk thick soup.
Kalle Joosh: Kashk
thick soup.
Bozbash: meat soup with red or white beans, green vegetables, herbs, onions and leeks, dried limes and spices.
Sholeh: Thick soup with meat, different legumes, bulgur, rice, nutmeg and other spices. Shole is originally from Mashhad.

Polow and dami

Apart from dishes of rice with kebab or stew, there are various rice-based Iranian dishes cooked in the traditional methods of polow and dami.

Polow is the Persian word for pilaf and it is also used in other Iranian languages, in the English language it may have variations in spelling. A polow dish includes rice stuffed with cuts of vegetables, fruits, and beans, usually accompanied by either chicken or red meat. Dami dishes are similar to polow in that they involve various ingredients with rice, however they are cooked using the dami method of cooking the dish all in one pot.

The following are a number of traditional Iranian rice-based dishes:

Sabzi Polo: Rice with chopped herbs, usually served with fish.
Loobia Polo: Rice with green beans and minced meat. 		Albalu Polo: Rice with sour cherries and slices of chicken or red meat.
Morasa Polo: Rice "jewelled" with barberries, pistachios, raisins, carrots, orange peel, and almonds.[43][44]
Shirin Polo: Rice with sweet carrots, raisins, and almonds.[45]
Adas Polo: Rice with lentils, raisins, and dates.[46]
Baqali Polo: Rice with fava beans and dill weed.[47]
lima beans.[48]
Tachin: Rice cake including yogurt, egg, and chicken fillets.
Kalam Polo: Rice with cabbage and different herbs.
Zereshk Polo: Rice with berberis and saffron.

Other

Kuku: Whipped eggs folded in with herbs or potato.
Kotlet: Mixture of fried ground beef, mashed potato, and onion.
Olivier salad: Mixture of potato, eggs, peas, and diced chicken (or sausage), dressed with mayonnaise.
Caviar: Salt-cured fish eggs.
Dolmeh: Stuffed peppers or vine leaves.
Kufte: Meatball or meatloaf dishes.
Zaban: Beef tongue.
Pache: Boiled parts of cow or sheep; also known as khash.
Pirashki (pirozhki): Baked or fried buns stuffed with a variety of fillings.
Sosis إandari
: Traditional sausage with onion, tomato paste, and chili pepper.
Nargesi: A type of spinach omelette. 		Sirabij: A type of garlic omelette.
Gondi: Iranian Jewish dish of meatball
.
Iranian pizza: A typical Iranian pizza.
Dopiaza: Traditional Shiraz curry prepared with a large quantity of onions.
Joshpara: Azerbaijani meat-filled dumplings.
Tomato scrambled eggs: A dish made from eggs and tomato.
Jaqur-Baqur: A dish made from sheep's heart, liver and kidney.
Beryani: A traditional dish in Isfahan made from minced meat, fat, onion, cinnamon, saffron, walnut and mint that is served with baked lung.
ancient Persia
and was introduced worldwide in the 16th century.

Appetizers

Torshi
: Mixed pickles salad.
Salad Shirazi: Chopped cucumbers, tomato, and onion with verjuice and a little lemon juice.
Borani: Yogurt with spinach and other ingredients.
Mast-o Khiar: Strained yogurt with cucumber, garlic, and mint.
Sabzi (greens): Fresh herbs and raw vegetables.
Zeytun Parvardeh: Olives in a paste made of pomegranate, walnut and garlic.[49]
Mirza Qasemi
: Grilled eggplant with egg, garlic and tomato.
Kashk-e Bademjan
: Mixture of kashk, eggplant and mint.

Desserts

For a more comprehensive list, see
List of Iranian desserts
.

In 400 BC, the ancient Iranians invented a special chilled food, made of

Bastani e zaferani, Persian
for "saffron ice cream", is a traditional Iranian ice cream which is also commonly referred to as "the traditional ice cream". Other typical Iranian desserts include several forms of rice, wheat and dairy desserts.

The following is a list of several Iranian desserts.

Fereni: Sweet rice pudding flavored with rose water.[53]
Sholezard: Saffron rice-based dessert.
Halva: Wheat flour and butter, flavored with rose water.
Bastani-e Zaferani
: Saffron ice cream.
Faloodeh: Vermicelli mixed in a semi-frozen syrup of sugar and rose water.
Sarshir: Creamy dairy product similar to clotted cream.
Samanu: Germinated wheat, typically served for Nowruz.

Snacks

Cookies appear to have their origins in 7th-century Iran, shortly after the use of sugar became relatively common in the region.[54] There are numerous traditional native and adopted types of snack food in modern Iran, of which some are listed within the following table.

Kolucheh: Cookies, with major production in Fuman and Lahijan.
Bamieh: Deep fried dough soaked in sugar syrup.
Baqlava: Pastry made of filo, nuts, and sugar syrup.
Reshte Khoshkar: Fried and spiced rice flour and walnut.
Nougat and Gaz: Made of sugar, nuts, and egg white.
Sohan: Saffron brittle candy with nuts.
Sohan Asali: Brittle
candy with honey.
Nan-e Berenji: Rice flour cookies.[55]
Tabrizi Lovuez: Diamond-shaped, made of almond powder, sugar, and saffron.
Nokhodchi: Chickpea cookies.[56]
Qottab: Almond-filled deep-fried pastry.
Kolompeh: Pie made of dates and cardamom.
Nabat : Rock candy, commonly flavored with saffron in Iran.
Pashmak: Cotton candy.
Trail Mix: Dried fruit, grains, and nuts.
Quince Cheese: Made of quince and sugar.
Ajil-e Moshkel-gosha: Traditional packed trail mix for Nowruz.
Gush-e Fil: Dough topped with pistachios powdered sugar
.
Poolaki: Thin candy made of sugar, water, and white vinegar.
Baslogh: Pastry made of grape syrup, starch and almond.[57]

Drinks

A cup of Iranian tea, served in Tehran

Iran is one of the world's major tea producers,

better source needed] mostly cultivated in its northern regions. In Iranian culture, tea (čāy) is widely consumed[59][60] and is typically the first thing offered to a guest.[61] Iranians traditionally put a lump of sugar cube in the mouth before drinking the tea.[62] Rock candies are also widely used, typically flavored with saffron
.

Café Pars, Tehran (1936)

Iran's traditional

Iranian Azeris.[66][67]

Zoroastrians) are allowed to produce alcoholic beverages for their own use.[71] While non-alcoholic beer (ābjow) is available from legal outlets, other citizens prepare their alcoholic beverages illegally through the minority groups[72][73][74] and largely from Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey.[75]

distilled alcoholic beverage in Iran which contains at least 65% pure ethanol. It is usually produced at homes from raisins, and is similar to Turkish rakı.[76]
Prior to the 1979 Revolution, it had been produced traditionally in several cities of Iran. Since it was outlawed following the 1979 Revolution, it has become a black market and underground business.

The following table lists several Iranian cold beverages.

Doogh: Cold yogurt
drink, often made with salt, pepper, and other spices.
Pomegranate Juice
ice cream.[78]
Khakshir: Cold sweet drink with Descurainia sophia seeds.[79]
Sekanjebin: Cold drink made of honey and vinegar.
distilled alcoholic beverage
.
Sharbat
: Cold and sweet drink made of fruits or flower petals.
Shiraz Wine: Wine produced from Shiraz grapes around the city of Shiraz in Iran.

Regional Iranian cuisine

Azerbaijani cuisine

Main article: Azerbaijani cuisine

The

shekarpare (šekarpāre). Despite the influences from Turkey, the food tastes noticeably Iranian, though also with its own unique features, such as using more lemon juice and butter than other groups of Iranians.[83]

Balochi cuisine

Main article: Balochi cuisine

Meat and dates are the main ingredients in the cuisine of Iran's southeastern region of

doogh, and tabahag (tabâhag), that is meat prepared with pomegranate powder.[84][85] Baluchi cuisine also includes several date-based dishes, as well as various types of bread.[84][85]

Caspian cuisine

See also: Caspian cuisine

The southern coast of the

Romanized: Mahi doodi) is also popular in Gilan[91] and usually incorporated into rice by steaming the two together.[92] Local cookies (koluče) of the region are popular desert items,[87] particularly those from the region of Fuman. Another notable dessert from this region is Reshteh Khoshkar (Persian: رشته‌خشکار), consisting of fried rice flour dough filled with sugar and nuts. Medlar is also commonly eaten in Gilan[93]
and locally referred to as "Konos" (Persian: کونوس).

Kurdish cuisine

Main article: Kurdish cuisine

The

āsh, pilaf, and stew dishes.[94] Some local Kurdish dishes include a traditional grilled rib meat that is called dande kabāb,[95] a type of khoresh made of chives that is called xoreš-e tare,[96] and a dish of rice and potatoes that is called sib polow.[97]

Southern Iranian cuisine

The food of southern Iran is typically spicy.

Khuzestan's cuisine includes especially seafood, as well as some unique local beverages.[99] In southern Khuzestan, there is also a variation of kufte that is known as kibbeh
and is made of ground meat, cracked wheat, different types of herbs and vegetables and various spices.

Turkmen cuisine

Main article: Turkmen cuisine

Iran's

Chegderme (čekderme) is a Turkmen dish made of rice, meat, and tomato paste.[100]

Structure

Meals

Breakfast

The basic traditional Iranian breakfast consists of a variety of flat breads, butter cubes, white cheese, whipped heavy cream (sarshir; often sweetened with honey), nuts (especially walnuts) and a variety of fruit jams and spreads.

Many cities and towns across Iran feature their own distinct versions of breakfast dishes. Pache, a popular traditional dish widely eaten in Iran and the neighboring Caucasus, is almost always only served from three in the morning until sometime after dawn, and specialty restaurants (serving only pache) are only open during those hours.

Lunch and dinner

Traditional Iranian cooking is done in stages, at times needing hours of preparation and attention. The outcome is a well-balanced mixture of herbs, meat, beans, dairy products, and vegetables. Major staples of Iranian food that are usually eaten with every meal include

fish
). Stew over rice is by far the most popular dish, and the constitution of these vary by region.

Traditional table setting and etiquette

Traditional Iranian table setting firstly involves the tablecloth, called sofre, and is spread out over either a table or a rug. Main dishes are concentrated in the middle, surrounded by smaller dishes containing appetizers, condiments, and side dishes, all of which are nearest to the diners. When the food is perfectly served, an invitation is made to seat at the sofre and start having the meal.

See also

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Further reading

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  • ISBN 978-0-313-32053-8
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  • "ĀŠPAZĪ" [cooking]. Encyclopaedia Iranica. 15 December 1987.
  • Matthee, Rudolph, 'Patterns of Food Consumption in Early Modern Iran', Oxford Handbook Topics in History (online edn, Oxford Academic, 5 Oct. 2015), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935369.013.13, accessed 4 Aug. 2023.
  • Neda Mollakhalili Meybodi; Maryam Tajabadi Ebrahimi; Amir Mohammad Mortazavian. Ethnic Fermented Foods and Beverage of Iran. Springer.
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