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3 Must-Have Ingredients by Ninelife for Persian Cooking

If you love Persian food and its fragrant, bright flavors, but aren’t cooking it at home, you are seriously missing out! Once you try a few recipes, you’ll discover how easy it is to make delicious Persian delicacies yourself, so you can enjoy your favorite foods any day of the week. In this guide, we are at Ninelife sharing three important ingredients you will need to have if you want to cook Persian food. Once you have tried having these three items in your pantry, you’ll be hooked on home-cooked Persian food.

1.     Saffron

Saffron is the quintessential Persian spice, used in everything from crispy rice tadig to sweet Persian ice cream and candy. Saffron is highly coveted, mostly due to its intensive production process. To collect the thin strands of bright red saffron, harvesters delicately pluck them from the centers of saffron crocuses, which grow throughout Iran, Greece, Spain, and other warm areas of the world. If you want real-deal Persian flavor, choose an Iranian grown saffron of the highest quality. Crush and bloom with a little cool water for savory cooking, or activate by grinding with sugar for sweet dishes.

2.    Sumac

Sumac is a flowering, fruited plant that is native to Iran and other areas of the Middle East. These lovely flowering plants produce bright-red berries, which are traditionally collected, dried, and ground. The resulting sumac powder has a sour, tangy, fruity flavor like a combination of raisins and lemon peel. Delicious sprinkled over rice, added to meat dishes, or added as a topping to nearly any main course, try ground sumac for yourself to discover why this is a must-have ingredient. 

3.    Rose Water

Rose water is used in Iran and by Persians worldwide as an ingredient for traditional recipes, as a ceremonial item, and as a medicinal substance. Before you delve into the more complex uses of rose water, try using it to create some traditional sweets like baklava, nougat, rose-water drinks, or Persian ice cream. Rose water is so fragrant and sweet that it can even be used as a natural scent, and dabbed onto your neck or wrists to give you a light, rose perfume.

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