Iranian egg recipes
17 Iranian egg recipes, each written for this site and each saying what its method turns on.
- Ash-e Doogh, sourced from Iran. The yogurt is the liquid rather than a finish, so it is tempered before it is heated. Lamb, Egg.
- Baghali Ghatogh, sourced from Iran. The eggs are cracked in whole at the end and there is no meat in it at all. Egg, vegetarian.
- Bastani, sourced from Iran. Flakes of frozen clotted cream are stirred in at the end and stay solid in the finished ice cream. Egg, vegetarian.
- Gaz, sourced from Iran. An egg-white nougat whose original sweetener is an insect honeydew, now usually replaced with glucose syrup. Egg, vegetarian.
- Gosh-e Fil, sourced from Iran. The dough is rolled thin, pinched into an elephant's ear and deep-fried with no filling in it. Egg, vegetarian.
- Koloocheh, sourced from Iran. It is stamped with a pattern on top, and filled with dates and walnuts. Egg, vegetarian.
- Kuku, sourced from Iran. There is less egg in it than a frittata and it sets slowly in a covered pan before being turned. Egg, vegetarian.
- Mirza Ghassemi, sourced from Iran. The aubergines are grilled whole until the skins blacken, so the finished dish tastes smoked. Egg, vegetarian.
- Nan-e Berenji, sourced from Iran. It is rice flour, and the cookies are kept white rather than allowed to brown. Egg, vegetarian.
- Nargesi, sourced from Iran. The only seasoning is salt, garlic and pepper, and the eggs go in last onto spinach already cooked down. Egg, vegetarian.
- Qottab, sourced from Iran. The almond turnover is deep-fried rather than baked, and dusted thickly afterwards. Egg, vegetarian.
- Salad Olivier, sourced from Iran. The Iranian version is built on chicken and Persian pickled cucumbers, and it is eaten in a sandwich. Chicken, Egg.
- Sirabij, sourced from Iran. It is made with garlic leaves rather than cloves, fried first, with the eggs scrambled into them. Egg, vegetarian.
- Sohan, sourced from Iran. It is thickened with wheat sprout and egg yolk, which is what makes it a brittle rather than a caramel. Egg, vegetarian.
- Tabriz Meatballs, sourced from Iran. One enormous meatball a person, built around a core of boiled egg, walnut, fried onion and dried apricot. Beef, Egg.
- Tahchin, sourced from Iran. The rice is bound with yogurt and egg so the base sets into a slab you can cut. Chicken, Lamb, Egg.
- Yazdi Cake, sourced from Iran. It is raised with yogurt and three separate raising agents, which is what makes it so open. Egg, vegetarian.
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