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Food

Regional cuisines and the dishes of the calendar.

  • Chelow kabab

    Rice with koobideh, barg or joojeh

  • Ghormeh sabzi

    Herb stew with kidney beans and dried lime

  • Fesenjan

    Walnut and pomegranate stew

  • Tahdig

    The crisp rice crust

  • Ash reshteh

    Noodle soup for Nowruz

  • Sabzi polo ba mahi

    Herbed rice with fish for Nowruz

  • Mirza ghasemi

    Smoked aubergine from Gilan

  • Kufteh tabrizi

    Stuffed meatballs from Tabriz

  • Ghalieh mahi

    Spiced fish stew of the Persian Gulf coast

  • Sholeh zard

    Saffron rice pudding, a vow food

  • Faloodeh

    Rosewater noodle sorbet of Shiraz

  • Sangak, barbari and lavash

    Breads; lavash is UNESCO-inscribed (2016)

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Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. (2026). Food. iranians.global. https://iranians.global/heritage/food/

Chicago

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. 2026. “Food.” iranians.global. https://iranians.global/heritage/food/.

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@misc{idcdc2026_heritage_food,
	author = {{Iranian Diaspora Cooperation \& Development Council}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Food},
	url = {https://iranians.global/heritage/food/},
	howpublished = {https://iranians.global/heritage/food/},
}

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    Vahid Mohammadpour Karizaki · 2016 · Journal of Ethnic Foods

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  2. MENU : PERSIAN CUISINE

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    Mazaheri Y, Sadighara P, Shokri S et al. · 2025 · BMC Public Health

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    Mehrdad Zeinalian, Mehdi Eshaghi, Mahdi Hadian et al. · 2017 · International Journal of Preventive Medicine

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  5. The Role Of Pomegranate In The Persianate World’s Culinary Practices And Beyond

    Nader Mehravari · 2023 · Petit Propos Culinaires

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  6. Diet and food in Iranian traditional medicine: hints for further research.

    Mahdi Borhani, Fariba Khoshzaban, Behzad Jodeiri et al. · 2014 · PubMed

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    Vahid Mohammadpour Karizaki · 2017 · Journal of Ethnic Foods

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    2016 · The Persian Empire

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  9. Psychometric Evaluation of the Persian Version of Adult Food Preferences Questionnaire (FPQ-Adult).

    Heidari Z, Haghighatdoost F, Amani Tirani S et al. · 2026 · Curr Dev Nutr

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  10. Traditional food and practices for health: Iranian dairy foods

    Hamid Ezzatpanah · 2020 · Nutritional and Health Aspects of Food in South Asian Countries

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  11. Omega-3 and omega-6 content of medicinal foods for depressed patients: implications from the Iranian Traditional Medicine

    Mandana Tavakkoli-Kakhki, Malihe Motavasselian, Mahmoud Mosaddegh et al. · 2014 · Avicenna Journal of Phytomedicine

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    Nazanin Nikeghbal, Hilmi Rafet Yüncü · 2022 · Journal of Tourism and Gastronomy Studies

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