Name: The typical Iranian breakfast platter (Sobhaneh)
Cuisine: Persian
Ingredients: a bowl of walnut kernels sliced cucumbers; sarshir, kaymak, clotted cream or thick (double) cream; hot black tea; 1 hard-boiled or fried egg per person sliced tomatoes; at least one type of jam; butter; slices of your flat bread of choice; sugar to sweeten the tea (optional); Iranian white cheese or feta cheese; honey

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

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Pomegranates & Artichokes

By Saghar Setareh

Published 2023

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It all starts with bread.

Bread is such an important part of an Iranian breakfast that the utmost effort and love you can put into the meal is to visit a bakery early in the morning to get some fresh bread, still hot from the oven. In my early university years when my brother was still in high school, my father would ‘torment’ us by coming back home with fresh bread at 8 a.m. on Fridays* and forcing us to get up for a lavish breakfast spread —