Shole Zard: Persian saffron rice pudding

Persian saffron rice pudding or Shole Zard is a very popular meal in Iranian cuisine. It is commonly served as dessert or an evening meal but you can also have it as a main course if you have a sweet tooth. Here is everything you need to know about Shole Zard. What is Persian saffron […]

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Masghati | Persian saffron and rosewater sweet

Masghati is a soft, Jelly-like sweet made mostly in southern parts of Iran. This sweet is made with slight changes in ingredients and recipes in different regions of Iran but the basic recipe is more or less the same. The main ingredient of Masghati is starch which gives the sweet its jelly form. Saffron, rosewater, […]

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Persian Halva recipe

Persian Halva is a sweet dense paste made out of toasted wheat flour, oil or butter, mixed with a sugar, saffron, cardamom and rosewater syrup that gives it a pleasant taste and smell. Halva is originally an Arabic dessert literally meaning “sweet”, but it has found its way to many ethnicities such as Indian, Persian, […]

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