Persian cooking: recipes · Abgoosht & dizi: pot dishes

Dizi دیزی سنگی

Dizi is abgoosht in a stone pot, and above all the way to eat it: first the broth with bread (tilit), then the mashed meat (goosht-e koobideh).

⏱ 30 min

Ingredients

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  • 1 ready abgoosht (see the “Abgoosht” recipe)
  • 4 flatbread (lavash, sangak or barbari)
  • 2 onions
  • 1 bunch mixed herbs (parsley, coriander, dill, leek)
  • pickled gherkins (to taste)

Method

  1. Pour the broth into a bowl and soak pieces of bread in it (tilit).
  2. Mash the meat, chickpeas, beans and potatoes in the pot with the pestle (goosht-koob) into a coarse paste.
  3. Eat the tilit first, then the meat paste with bread.
  4. Serve with raw onion, fresh herbs (sabzi khordan), torshi and doogh.