Rice

Rice is, of course, also used in many other dishes in Persian cuisine, including soups, oshes, meatballs (kufte-berenji), and stuffed vegetables (dolmeh). There are also many sweets and cookies made using rice flour: tar-halva, fereni, shirberenj, and nan-e berenji. It is also used as a type of popcorn, by roasting (berenj-e budadeh or berenjak), and deep-fried as a candy (reshteh bereshteh).