Joon: Persian Cooking Made Simple - Hardcover

Najmieh Batmanglij

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1933823720 ISBN 13: 9781933823720

Publisher: Mage Publishers Inc (US), 2015

Synopsis

Master chef Najmieh Batmanglij distills one of the world's oldest and most influential cuisines to capture its unique flavours in recipes adapted to suit our busy lives. Najmieh's fans have been making meals from her Food of Life for over 30 years. For ""Joon"" she has simplified 75 of her favourite dishes and shows how, with the right ingredients and a few basic tools and techniques, authentic Persian food can easily be prepared at home. The recipes in this book -- each accompanied by a photograph of the finished dish -- come straight from Najmieh's kitchen and include not only the classics of Persian cooking, but also some soon-to-be favourites, such as quinoa or kale cooked Persian-style. You will discover delicious side dishes, from cooling, yogurt-based salads and tasty dips and spreads, to more sustaining platters of grains, beans and fresh herbs; tasty ""kukus"" -- frittata-style omelettes filled with vegetables and herbs; spice-infused fish; mouth-watering meatballs and kebabs served on flat breads with tangy sauces; every kind of rice -- including the incomparable polow topped with various sweet and sour braises; not to mention, delightfully aromatic cakes and cookies to round off meals or enjoy as a snack in between.

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About the Author

Najmieh Batmanglij, is an acclaimed American chef, cooking instructor, best-selling cookbook author, and co-founder and executive chef of the award winning Persian restaurant Joon, in Vienna Virginia. She was hailed as "one of seven immigrant women who changed the way Americans eat" by The New York Times, and The Grande Dame of Iranian Cooking by Mayukh Sen in The Washington Post. Her latest book Cooking in Iran: Regional Recipes & Kitchen Secrets, was the culmination of tens of thousands of miles of travel through Iran, and chosen as one of the best cookbooks of 2018, and called “magisterial” by The New York Times.

Batmanglij views preparing a meal not only as a culinary experience, but also as a means to bring family and friends together. She encourages her readers to use her books as she was taught in Iran, to cook, to laugh, to tell jokes and stories, to recite poetry, and to enjoy the meal. Over the past 40 years, Batmanglij's books have acted as a both a beacon and a bible to Iranian-American and mixed-ethnicity families in the English-speaking world. Her life and her work meet at the vortex of feminism, tradition, ceremony, and the nourishment of body and mind, proving that none of these concepts need be foreign to one another.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mage Publishers Inc (US)
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1933823720
• ISBN 13: 9781933823720
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224