with pomegranate juice and walnuts. Highly unusual for the untrained palate and quite toothsome. Adas Polow: rice with raisins and other good things. Note there are many variations on this including one with dried cherries that...

Here is one recipe with the steps: http://www.mecca.com/modules/lifestyle/article.php?id=1496 and another with the same ingredients as listed above: http://www.iranchamber.com/recipes/rice/meigo_polow.php

for you. http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/F.Mokhtarian/recipes/polow.html

that they don’t serve khoresh or different varieties of polow... a plus because that means they focus on the chelokebab instead. Everyone I bring there, Persian and non-Persian, love it. I won’t go anywhere else for...

I haven’t tried any of those you mention (never heard of them actually), but will make an effort to find them. There are some Persian recipes in Claudia Roden’s “The New Book of Middle Eastern Food” (a...

Shiran polow (they may spell it a little differently). I recently had it in an Afgani restaurant in Philadelphia where the ingredients included rosewater as well. Wonderful dish. I’ve never tried it at Noon O Kabob since I...

- yogurt, garlic, and mint (I think) — was good but not great. Maybe they didn’t use the really high-fat yogurt? It seemed thin and there wasn’t much of it... Ali and I shared our entrees – duck with qabuli...

Thanks all for your suggestions. We finally managed to make our way to Nader and are very happy to report good things. The best dish we had was the lamb shank (no other name on the menu) served with bajhali polow (rice with broad...

polow?). The food was good but not fabulous – I’m looking forward to trying Salang Pass. The standout thing was the tea, however – it was prepared with dried loose herbs rather than a pre-perfumed tea. Really...

, barberries, candied orange peel, carrots: a simple of re-birth Fish (Sabzi polow ba mahi) representing fertility. The fish is prepared either fried or smoked? Eggs & Herbs (Kuku-ye sabzi) … I’m getting sabzi means rice … more...

and different polows— my dad loves Caspian when we can get out there (and he’s the Iranian in my fam), but when he wants Persian food, we go to Raffi’s because it’s close and fab. Anyways, khoresh is...

Polow. I got the idea when I started my computer and had music videos playing in the background. Mange du Kebab by Lil’Maaz was playing. If you’ve never seen this video it is a laugh! It is in french and available on...