Persian soup

Welcome to Ash Reshteh, a one pot Persian noodle soup filled with fresh herbs, leafy greens, and legumes. Traditionally eaten on Persian New Year, it's jam packed with flavor and comes straight to you from my childhood kitchen!

Ash reshteh’s flavor is defined by two uniquely Persian ingredients: reshteh and kashk. The soup, served during the festivities leading up to Nowruz, the Persian New Year, wouldn’t be the same without the soup noodles called reshteh, which are saltier and starchier than Italian noodles — though you could substitute linguine in a pinch. Kashk, a form of drained yogurt or whey, is saltier and more sour than Greek yogurt or sour cream. More like feta than yogurt, liquid kashk gives ash its…

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Persian noodle soup is called Ash Reshteh and tastes nothing like any noodle soup you've had before. It gets its distinct, tangy, and savory flavor from kashk, reshteh, and Persian fried onions. It's also packed with nutritious and flavorful greens, beans, and chickpeas.

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Persian culture offers a large number of stews, of which we are familiar with only a handful. The importance of a stew in Persian culture is tremendous, it brings out the skills of the home chef in providing a nutritious and delicious meal to sustain the family. Most of old Persia is a very harsh land, rocky, mountainous and arid, the extreme climate making it hard to grow vegetables. Those that were grown were cherished and cooking techniques, including stews and soups, were developed to…