Hafte-Bijar Pickle

For this recipe I have to thank Mr Moghadam, who makes wonderfully syrupy and exotic pickles in Park Royal. The name has a rather sweet Iranian folk tale attached to it, which I have endeavoured to summarize below.

The story goes that once upon a hubble-bubble, in olden Bijar, a little village near Tabriz, a beautiful maiden, the daughter of the town’s ap