Aubergine Khoreshe "Meatless"

What to cook...what to cook?

This dish is surprisingly delicious and easy to prepare, cook and eat.

2 large onions sliced quite thickly

4/5 large ripe tomatoes sliced

1-2 eggplants, peeled and sliced 1/2 inch thick

salt & pepper

small bunch of fresh parsley or coriander/or mixed.minced

1/2 cup of hot water to cover half way

2 tablespoon of oil

2 gloves of garlic minced with the herbs

Salt your eggplant for around 15 minutes this reduces the need for lots of oil. Rinse off and pat dry.

Saute the eggplant in oil until glazed and golden on both side.Arrange onions,eggplant and tomatoes in a frying pan in alternate layers, sprinkling each layer with salt and pepper and the minced herbs with garlic. Add the water (or stock)

Cover tightly and simmer for around 30 to 45 minutes or until the liquid is reduced to a rich gravy. Serve hot with lavash  chelou-dami or kateh rice.

ENJOY!

Chicken Ab-Ghust

Chicken Stew "Chicken Ab-Ghust"

Going to make a simple chicken stew, with yellow split peas,potatoes,tomatoes. It is really delicouse and feeds up to four.

Just a quick note about yellow split peas for the receipe. I always use the iranian ones as I find they cook but dont turn to mush.You can get them from Persian food shops.

You will need

Chicken cut into segments
Onion and if you like a glove of garlic
Yellow split peas cup full
Potatoes new are best
Tomatoes 3-4 or use all tomatoe puree
Tumeric-dried chilli-salt & lots of black pepper.

Place the chicken -onions - tumeric-salt-pepper in a pot and bring to the boil, reduce and simmer for 45 minutes.

While your simmering the chicken boil your split peas for one minute then drain.Put the yellow split peas into the pot and cook for a further 15 minutes.Then add your tomatoes (plus a teaspon of tomatoe puree)potatoes and cook until the potatoes are cook.

The way we eat it. Tip all the juice into a large bowl and the rest onto a dish. The juice is eaten as a starter,to the juice you add torn up flat bread Lavash allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/1774/lavash.aspx‎.put this into the juice and eat with raw onion or pickles. Then eat the rest.

ENJOY!

My Garden Foxes

My Garden Foxes

For over many years I have had several foxes come and visit me. However this year I have had two brother foxes practically live in my garden.