Masghati is a soft, fragrant Persian dessert made with sugar, rosewater, starch, and nuts, commonly served during special ...

Don’t read this if you’re hungry, because we’re talking holiday desserts. I’ve made Christmas cookies and babka before, but this holiday baking season I wanted to try something the Persian side of my ...

HERE’S WHY I serve Persian tea sweets for Passover. It’s sort of a long story. And it begins with a riddle: How can a person be Iranian and Jewish, but not an Iranian Jew? This is the brain-twister I ...

Toot is the Persian word for mulberry, and these eye-catching Iranian sweets, which are traditionally served during Persian New Year, are shaped to look like the fruit. According to Tannaz Sassooni, a ...

Learn how to make Shirin Polo, a classic Persian sweet rice dish with tender chicken. This authentic Iranian recipe combines ...

This recipe appeared originally on The Nosher. As a kid in Hebrew school, I learned that my classmates would have apples and honey and round challah at Rosh Hashanah to bring in the Jewish New Year, ...

Atlanta has long had its share of Persian restaurants, beloved for their rice dishes, flatbreads, platters of herbs and cheese, kebabs and roasted meats. Stephen Kaplan remembers growing up in Sandy ...

Makes approximately 2 dozen 3- to 4-inch square thin flatbreads. These breads are more like cookies than flatbreads, but they are so simple and delicious we had to include them. They are made with ...

In 2018, pastry chef Sahar Shomali was between restaurant jobs — she’d concluded career-making stints at Spago and Lucques and would soon be making desserts at Hearth & Hound — when she was gripped by ...