Adas means lentils in Persian and Adasi is a lentils soup that people have for breakfast. It is an easy recipe, you’ll just need time so it settles to have a flavorful lentils soup.
Category: Vegetarian recipes
Meatless recipes, many of them have eggs and cheese, some has only ghee which you can replace with vegetable oil to stay vegan. Enjoy!
Eshkeneh is one of the classics and modest recipes of Persian cuisine. This soup is made of cheap ingredients: onion, turmeric, flour… It was mainly the food of the poor.
Ribollita is one of the Tuscany’s famous dishes. It’s part of “Cucina Povera” (food of the poor). Ribollita means “re-boiled”
This apple crumble is a guilt free dessert, breakfast, or snack. The top has a crispy crumble while beneath the apples stays soft, sweet, and juicy.
It’s a rustic recipe from Mediterranean cuisine. The Sicilian version is with anchovies and breadcrumbs, in this recipe we used olives without any added starch to keep it vegetarian and low carb. The olives give a nice sour contrast to the sweetness of peppers and onion. The scent of garlic, peppers, and oregano fills the house and makes everyone hungry.
This recipe is a fusion take between ?? Greek “Spanakopita” and middle eastern “Samosa”. The phyllo dough, feta, and spinach are from the greek side and the potatoes, cumin, turmeric, and garlic are from the samosa.
Kuku is the Persian version of Italian frittata. Their only difference lays in the number of eggs. Kuku has less. Potato kuku is made of few ingredients and is very easy to prepare which is perfect for starters and happy hours treat.
Generally, Ash (Āsh) refers to a dense soup that is made of herbs & legumes. When we add noodles, which in Perisan called: Reshteh, the Ash becomes “Ash of Reshteh”. It is the most popular type of Ash in Iran.
Adas Polo (or polow) is an easy Iranian dish. For this recipe, you’ll need 2 main ingredients: Lentils and rice. It doesn’t matter what kind of lentils (green, red, gigantic…) but the rice is better to be Basmati or any other long grain type of rice.
With already cooked beans, the “Turnip greens with beans” will be ready in 25 mins! In the Italian version, you don’t add any spices.
“Arrabbiata” means “Angry” in Italian. This dish is spicy with chilies (peperoncino). It’s such a perfect name, you can either burn for being angry or having chilies in your mouth. In both cases, turns our faces to red.
This dish is good for starter/appetitive (happy hour). It’s easy to eat, the tomato sauce is fresh and light. you can make from the leftover risotto.
Pasta with Rosemary isn’t in traditional Italian cuisine! Basically, Rosemary is used for meats, not for pasta. However, this recipe was very successful among my friends and family, and needless to say, it’s a quick dish!
this paste other than having so much fiber it’s made with stevia which makes it perfectly low carb. I spread this like butter on the bread for breakfast.
This dish is usually served as an appetizer. It’s vegetarian and made of a few ingredients. The main ingredient is long type of eggplants/aubergine which called Japanese variety. But as long as you’ve got eggplants I guess all varieties are ok. The bigger they are, the less work you’ll have! ;