Khoshab/Haft Mewa

Central Asian Dried Fruit Salad

Preparation info
  • An Ancient Treat for

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Sally Butcher

Published 2014

  • About

This may well be the first ever recipe for fruit salad, although the dish is prized as much for the fruit juice produced as for the fruit ‘salad’ itself.

In Afghanistan and across Central Asia, Nowrooz, or the New Year, is one of the biggest holidays of the year. The origins of the festival (which falls on the Spring equinox) are almost certainly as old as the human race itself, as it pertains to the seasons, and the miraculous rebirth of spring, and the banishment of wicked