Exploring Best 10 Local Kermanshah Foods with Quick Recipe

When I was a child, because of my father’s job, we traveled to most cities in Iran. I have a special memory of every city and its food, but I will never forget the food of Kermanshah.

Kermanshah is a city in the western part of Iran and is a mountainous region with excellent plants for delicious food.

From my trip to this city, I still remember two types of food: Khorest kangar, which was made from fresh artichoke leaves and was very delicious, and Dande kabab Kermanshah, which I like even more than pounded kebabs.

Below is a list of the most famous and best dishes of Kermanshah and an explanation of how to prepare each one. In my opinion, make one of these dishes today to understand how great these Local Persian foods are.

List of Best Local Kermanshah Foods

1. Dande kabab

Dandeh kabab or Persian grilled ribs is one of the best Local Kermanshah foods and even the best Iranian kebabs.
A traditional and very delicious kebab made from fresh lamb meat, onions, salt and pepper.

This dish is served with stone bread and a special sauce made from tomato paste, butter, salt, and black pepper.

This kebab is usually served in Kermanshah restaurants and for special guests. Of course, the popularity of this dish has also reached other cities in Iran and it is served in restaurants in almost all cities of Iran.

If you are interested in Iranian kebabs, after the pounded kebab, put Kermanshah kebab rib as a priority for testing.

2. Valak polow

Valak polow is considered one of the original dishes of Kermanshah. Valak(Allium ursinum) is a mountain vegetable that grows mostly in the spring in the foothills of the Alborz and Zagros mountain ranges. This plant grows mostly in May and June.

Allium ursinum, known as wild garlic, ramsons, cowleekes, cows’s leek, cowleek, buckrams, broad-leaved garlic, wood garlic, bear leek, Eurasian wild garlic or bear’s garlic, is a bulbous perennial flowering plant in the amaryllis family Amaryllidaceae.

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 This tasty pilaf is cooked in different ways in different cities. Valak pilu is served with chicken, fish, and meat.

The way to prepare valek pilu is that we first wash the valeks and set them aside. We fill a pot halfway with water and put it on the gas stove, after the water boils, add a little salt and pour the rice into the pot.

After the rice is half-cooked, we pour the chopped valek into the pot and wait for 5 minutes for the valek to boil together with the rice and then drain the rice.

Next, pour the mixture of rice and valek into the pot add some water and liquid oil to it, and cook it like rice, and at the end, eat the valek pilaf with yogurt, shallots, and Persian pickles.

3. Sib polow

Sib Plou is another famous and delicious Local Kermanshah food. This dish is very similar to Shivid polow.

To prepare this Kermanshahi pilaf, after chopping the potatoes, add them to the boiling water along with rice and salt and cook them together for a few minutes.
After that, drain the rice, add the dill to it, and let it infuse.

At the end, pour Kermanshahi oil on the rice and eat it with fried chicken or meatballs. This dish can usually be prepared in the shortest possible time and with few facilities and can be used and eaten as the main meal for lunch and dinner.

4. Ash tarkhineh

Ash tarkhineh is one of the traditional Iranian dishes that belong to the city of Kermanshah. It is a very strong and excellent soup for treating colds in the winter season.

This dish is very similar to Ash Doogh and is widely used in the western provinces of Iran.

To prepare Tarkhineh soup, first, soak Tarkhineh in water. Some people add soaked lentils, peas, and beans to the soup. But you can also cook it simply without beans.

Legumes except lentils are fried with hot onion and let it cook with some water. After cooking beans, we add lentils and tarragon to the ingredients.

After it cooks a little, we add some vegetables to it and wait for it to cook. Then we pour the soup into a dish and decorate it with hot mint and hot onion. You can eat this soup with Iranian bread as a main meal.

5. Khoresht khalal

Khoresht Khalal is one of the oldest stews in Kermanshah. This stew is made of lamb or veal stewed with tomato paste and saffron and cooked with various spices.

It is decorated with sliced ​​almonds and barberry and served with Iranian rice. Like other Kermanshahi dishes, it is prepared with genuine Kermanshahi oil. Kermanshahi oil can be replaced outside of Iran by solid cooking oils.

Khorsht khalal is an excellent dish for meat lovers, which is used for gatherings and parties of Iranians, especially the people of Kermanshah.

6. Khoresht Sib o Albaloo_ Apple and Sourcherry Stew

Khoresht sib o albaloo is a local sweet and sour dish of Kermanshahi that can be cooked with meat and chicken. This dish is mostly used in the season when fresh cherries come to the market, and cooking it with fresh cherries is much tastier.

To prepare this dish, we need meat or chicken, pitted sour cherries, preferably sour apples, onions, sugar, lemon juice, cinnamon, salt, pepper, turmeric, and saffron. First, peel the apple and dip it in lime juice so that it does not turn black.

Fry the meat with some oil in a pan until its color changes. Then add the hot onion to the meat and after roasting for 1 minute, add some boiling water, meat extract, and canned tomatoes to the meat and cook for 60 minutes on medium heat with the door closed.

Put the sour cherries in a small pot add cherry juice to it and cook for 30 minutes on medium heat until it thickens a bit. Then add it to the meat mixture.

Fry the apple pieces for 5 minutes in some hot oil. 20 minutes after adding the cherry, add the roasted apple to the stew and let it cook for 10 minutes. Finally, add the apple and cherry stew with Iranian rice. Serve saffron and enjoy.

7. Ash-e Abbas Ali

Another local dish of Kermanshah is called Ash Abbas Ali. Ash that a person named Abbas Ali vowed to give to fasting people at night in their local mosque during Iftar, and it was so delicious that the recipe for this dish reached other people and was very well received. took

Ash Abbas Ali is usually consumed during the cold months of the year and the holy month of Ramadan and for breaking the fast. This ash is 200 years old and can be considered the oldest food of Kermanshah.

The necessary ingredients to prepare this soup are mutton, white beans, chickpeas, lentils, whole wheat, Iranian smoked rice, pinto beans, hot mint, hot onion, hot garlic, Kermanshahi animal oil, salt, pepper, spices, turmeric.

8. Dast pich

Another authentic and local Kermanshah dish is Dast Pich. A very hearty dish that is very similar to Tabrizi meatballs.

The “Kermanshahi Dast pich” of two layers. The outer layer is made from dough made from the combination of meat, yellow split, chickpea flour, and egg, and the inner layer is made with qaisi leaves, walnut kernels, hot onion, and raisins.

The people of Kermanshah face the cold mountain weather and must keep their bodies healthy with nutritious foods.
Dost Pich is a very nutritious food that is usually used in the winter season in Kermanshah.

This dish is served with Sangak bread, Sabzi khordan, and local Persian Doogh.

9. Vanooshak polo

One of the oldest and most popular traditional dishes of Kermanshah is Vanushk Plou. This food has a great aroma and taste.

To cook this dish, you need fresh breadcrumbs, minced meat, rice, fried onions, tomato paste, animal oil, brewed saffron, and spices (salt, turmeric, and pepper).

To prepare rice noodles, first, fry the chopped onion with butter or oil along with the meat, add salt and turmeric, add the noodles, fry a little, and add the brewed saffron, and fry.

Put the ingredients aside and pour half of the rice into the pot after straining it. Pour all the ingredients into the rice add the rest of the rice and let it infuse. After it is infused, pour animal oil on the rice and eat it.

Vanushk Plou is a great food for parties and is also used as a food for the assembly in Kermanshah and has a very high nutritional value.

Baneh or mountain pistachio in the Laki dialect called Vaneshk (scientific name: Pistacia atlantica) is a tree of the pistachio family. The tree trunk is bipedal and has single-bladed leaves with 1 to 7 leaflets.

The leaves are oval and egg-shaped, and the shape of the fruit is spherical with a diameter of about 5 mm.

10. Khoresht Kangar

Another very delicious and traditional dish of Kermanshah is a khoresht Kangar(artichoke stew).
Artichoke is a very tonic plant with a slightly sour taste that grows on the slopes of the Zagros mountains in Kermanshah.

Khorest kangar is prepared in different ways and in Kermanshah it is usually combined with mutton and local vegetables.

To prepare Kermanshahi kangar stew, after cleaning the artichoke, they cook it with fresh meat, onion, saffron, parsley, and mint and add a little water and tomato paste as a seasoning.

In addition to its excellent aroma and taste, this food has many properties and is considered an energizing and nutritious food.

conclusion

At the end of this article, you got acquainted with the great foods of Kermanshah and realized that these foods have a very wide variety of food. From the use of mountain herbs in dishes to delicious kebabs and excellent local stews you have never tasted anywhere.

So, if you are a traveler in Iran, you must visit the beautiful city of Kermanshah and enjoy its delicious and unique local dishes.

If you have experience of traveling to Iran and eating traditional foods of this country, share your experiences in the comments.

FAQ

1. What plants are used in Kermanshahi cuisine?

Plants such as artichokes and Vaneshk(mountain pistachios) are used in Kermanshahi stews and pilafs.

2. What is the best and most famous grilled food in Kermanshah?

Dande kaba kermanshah is the best kebab in this region.

3. Which food in this region is used in religious ceremonies?

Ash Abbas Ali is the most famous local soup of Kermanshah, which is used in the month of Ramadan and for breaking the fast.

4. Are the foods of Kermanshah nutritious and high in calories?

Yes, due to the coldness of this city, the people of Kermanshah consume nutritious and energy-rich foods to have a strong and healthy body against the cold.