/ck/ - Food & Cooking

xcept it isnt

Sure, if you like cold vegetables swimming in olive oil served with a fish head.

have you tried grape leaves? You should. they're amazing. The middle easten students in my college sell them for fundraisers

>>12011610
It's not. I've had to stay in hospital a few times, and the food is awfully bland. Nothing like in your image.

>>12011825
Dolma? It sucks.

>>12011853
Is that what they're called? why do you say they suck? I ate them two days ago and they were the most exciting thing I've eaten in years

>>12011860
they vary. literally every culture has their own version. Persian and Armenian are the best in my opinion because they have meat in them

>>12011610
Was this meal prepared by andy sixx?

Persia is on the Mediterranean? Never knew.

>>12013433
mesopotamia and the caucasus share a lot of food influence with the 'mediterranean' diet. similar latitude and often shared political history. of course, there are differences. but there are differences between greece and spain, too.

>>12011610
I'm with you OP. Nothing really compares.

Iranian here, I agree. Our food is great

>>12011610
Good god what is that? Tell me so I can make this for dinner tomorrow, please. Specifically the fried thing and the other thing center of plate, and the shredded yellow stuff on the rice.

>>12013906
I looked up the menu for Moby Dick's in Washington, and still can't determine what these are.

>>12011610
It's bean dip. That's the only real contribution Meds have given to the world's cuisine.

Mediterranean/Central Asia master race.

>>12011610
What is this dish, OP? I hate you for not saying... Looks really delicious. Thanks a lot! :'-(

>>12011610
that's indian food; looks like a stock picture from moby dicks kabob chain.

>>12014203
It is a stock picture from MD chain. Can anyone tell me what that fried tube on the left is? Or what substance is grated over the rice? Are those eggplants, or some kind of wonderful Middle-Eastern hush-puppie I don't know about? Are they weird-shaped falafel? What? It's called a "chicken combo" plate.

>>12014214
the combo plate is any 2 kinds of meat, the right side is definitely chicken, the meat tube could be anything. on the rice it's some kind of butter sauce. I don't see any eggplants; those white things are most likely a cheese or tofu.

>>12014230
>on the rice it's some kind of butter sauce

No way. It's saffron (or more likely, an imitation product). Persian rice always has some kind of spice added to it to give it that yellow color. Rice with butter looks totallly different.

Lots of trade

>>12014258
well yeah the sauce can obviously have any number of things in it but it's probably butter based.

>>12014203
>indian
>kabob

>>12014214
the left meat is chicken koobedieh(not uncommon in the middle east so it could have different names but thats what its called in farsi)

>>12014270
its not sauce at all the rice is just yellow from being cooked with saffron

>let's just spice the shit out of it
Norwegian-American here. Scandinavian food is far superior.

>>12014298
no it's a sauce, if it wasn't a sauce then all of the rice would be colored

>>12014298
Ya we use either saffron or turmeric.

>>12014270
It's not a sauce poured over rice. What you're seeing is rice that's been colored with saffron or turmeric being served over the regular rice. Just google "Persian rice" and you'll understand. There is no butter involved here.

>>12014319
It's not a sauce tard. After the rice is done cooking we take a small portion of the rice and mix it saffron water then put the saffron infused rice ontop of the white rice.

>>12014332
well that's fucking stupid

>>12014337
1v1 me irl breh

>>12014295
>>12014330
>>12014332
Thank-you. Does anyone know how best to grind chicken thighs prepatory to making chicken koobideh?

>>12014359
all the rice is the same color, mfw

>>12014368
Sometimes we don't use saffron but put Turmeric in the water the rice boils in. There are literally thousands of different rice recipes from central asia.

>>12014359
Parsley genocide up in here.

>>12014359
>putting plastic on the table
are you slow?

>>12014385
*central asia/near east

>>12014168
It looks like joojeh kabob, saffron rice and maybe some sort of saffron lamb kabob(?) with a salad

>>12014404
i'm gonna put my koobideh in your joojeh

>>12014407
That's what it is thank you

>>12014368
mfw you have no face

>>12014449
Legit scared me.

>>12014300
No it’s not. I’ve been to the Somalian/Ethiopian place you describe as Norway.

>>12012102
My family is Greek and uses meat. I think the key is using a lot of lemon.

>>12014490
who barfed into your maggots?

>>12013949
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>>12011659
It's like you guys don't want to live forever (and with the lowest cases of dementia and cardiovascular disease compared to our northern European brethren)

>>12014323
That looks good, what's in that rice dish? How do you make it?

>>12014004
Yum

>>12014490
>imagine being so sheltered you make fun of rice

>>12011860
>most exciting thing I’ve eaten in years Christ. This post made me genuinely sad. Imagine having such an empty life

>>12017948
>wanting to live past 30

>>12011825
Greekfag here waiting for the zucchini flowers to bloom...best dolma ever, btw always served with Greek yogurt

>>12018829
Looks like it's tahdig. No idea how to make it

mediterranean countries are the best in any way desu schmesu. food, way of live, weather, etc. only downside is the economy situation but if you have some money there is no place better desu