Healthy Vegan Persian Recipes: Good Food Cookbook
By Bryan Rylee
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About this ebook
Obscured for years, Persian food is like a treasure waiting to be discovered, a colorful and challenging treasure that requires a bold palate, passion and love for food, but also some basic cooking skills and an interest in spices and fresh herbs, unusual combination and exotic ingredients.
The recipes found in this book aim to be your starting guide, your gate to a whole new world, to a whole new way of seeing food, to a new way of combining ingredients. Every recipe found between these pages is not only Persian, but also vegan so the final results are as healthy as they can be. It doesn't even take any special cooking skills. As long as you know how to chop and turn the stove on, you are good to go. So put that apron on and go to the kitchen because there are plenty of recipes waiting to be tried, plenty of new experiences and flavors and tons of joy cooking it all by yourself!
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Healthy Vegan Persian Recipes - Bryan Rylee
Introduction
The Persian Cuisine – Most Common Ingredients
Appetizers
Walnut and Cucumber Creamy Salad
Artichoke Heart Dip
Baba Ganoush
Green Avocado Dip on Toasted Bread
Beet and Walnut Dip
Red Bell Pepper Hummus
Eggplant and Tomato Fry Up
Potato Creamy Salad on Flatbread
Tofu and Tomato Kebabs
Roasted Garlic Spread
Salads
Orzo and Green Olive Salad
Fattoush Salad
Persian Carrot Salad
Sumac Tomato Salad
Persian Chickpea Salad
Shirazi Salad
Fresh Farro Salad
Persian Rice and Cucumber Salad
Soups and Stews
Persian Herb Soup
Persian Mushroom Stew
Persian Barley Soup – Ash-e-jow
Pomegranate Soup
Cold Cucumber Soup
Persian Pistachio Soup
Persian Herbed Bean Soup
Tofu Spinach Soup
Bean and Mushroom Stew
Rhubarb Stew
Persian Eggplant Stew
Persian Celery and Potato Stew
Lentil and Beet Soup with Flour Dumplings
Eggplant and Green Grape Stew
Main Dishes
Veggie Stuffed Bell Peppers
Persian Potato Gratin
Potato and Prune Casserole
Kateh – Persian Rice
Pomegranate Roasted Tofu
Saffron Baked Mushrooms
Walnut and Rice Balls
Persian Pilaf
Vegetable Curry
Fried Eggplant Casserole
Falafel Loaf
Persian Okra Stew
Persian Veggie Cabbage Rolls
Couscous Stuffed Tomatoes
Basmati Rice with Potato Crust
Jeweled Rice
Stuffed Eggplants
Desserts
Persian Melon Popsicles
Spiced Rice Pudding
Persian Chickpea Flour Cookies
Persian Halva
Spiced Carrot Halva
Cinnamon Date Cake
Wild Rice Apricot Pudding
Melon and Cherry Compote
Persian Sweet Rice
Ranginak – Date and Walnut Squares
Conclusion
Introduction
The Persian cuisine includes two main geographic areas: Persia and Iran, and it is a cuisine that has been strongly influenced by surrounding areas, including the Turkish cuisine or the Mediterranean one, but also Indian and Asian. So much that you will find common ingredients in all of them and sometimes it is hard to say which cuisine has influenced the other. But a fact remains – the Old Persian archives name coriander, saffron, cumin, mint, pomegranates, pistachio and even olive oil as products that were traded in the old days of the Persian Empire, therefore we can say that the Persian cuisine is ancient and varied.
Amongst the staple ingredients of the Persian cuisine you will find: fresh herbs, plums, pomegranates, prunes, apricots, raisins, rice, vegetables, nuts, saffron, cinnamon and parsley. They are combined in unusual ways sometimes but in the end every Persian dish is flavorful and rich, delicious and special and all you have to do is taste and be hooked!
One of the most common Persian ingredients, found in many dishes, both meat and vegan ones is rice. Rice was first brought to the region from India but it soon gained terrain with the locals. Although at first it was mostly used by the upper class of the society, in the last decades it became more accessible, even to the poor people who went from consuming mostly bread to eating rice as a base food.
There are various ways of cooking rice in the Persian cuisine. Polo designates the rice that is cooked by soaking it in salted water for a few hours. The rice is then