Country
What Iran cooks with
39 ingredients from the guide appear in the 12 catalogued dishes of Iran, in Asia. The most typical come first: used here often, and less so elsewhere.
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Most typical of Iran
A–Z
Every ingredient in Iran’s dishes

Butter
1 dish here

Cardamom
1 dish here

Chicken
1 dish here

Chili pepper
1 dish here

Cinnamon
1 dish here

Coconut milk
1 dish here

Coffee
1 dish here

Common bean
1 dish here

Coriander seed
1 dish here

Egg
1 dish here

Eggplant
1 dish here

Galangal
1 dish here

Garlic
2 dishes here

Ginger
1 dish here

Holy Basil
1 dish here

Indonesian bay leaf
1 dish here

Kurt
1 dish here

Lamb meat
1 dish here

Lemongrass
1 dish here

Milk
2 dishes here

Mint
1 dish here

Olive
1 dish here

Olive oil
1 dish here

Onion
3 dishes here

Rice
3 dishes here

Rice flour
1 dish here

Rice vermicelli
1 dish here

Rose water
1 dish here

Saffron
1 dish here

Sausage
1 dish here

Semolina
1 dish here

Shallot
1 dish here

Sugar
2 dishes here

Table salt
1 dish here

Tomato
1 dish here

Tomato paste
1 dish here

Turmeric
1 dish here

Water
1 dish here

Yogurt
1 dish here
Photo credits for this page (39)
Milk: Santeri Viinamäki · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Rice: Musclewingz Yueyua · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Sugar: Lauri Andler (Phantom) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Garlic: Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Butter: Jacek Halicki · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cardamom: Thamizhpparithi Maari · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Chicken: Sakurai Midori · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Chili pepper: Takeaway · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cinnamon: formulatehealth · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Coconut milk: Meursault2004 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Coffee: Julius Schorzman · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Common bean: Jay Superthato · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Coriander seed: Sanjay Acharya · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Egg: Flixtey · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Galangal: Ruth Hartnup from Vancouver, Canada · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Ginger: Sanjay Acharya · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Holy Basil: Mokkie · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Indonesian bay leaf: Herusutimbul · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Kurt: Paul Munhoven · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Lamb meat: Pujanak · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Lemongrass: Unknown photographer · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Mint: Commonists · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Olive: Juan Emilio Prades Bel · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Olive oil: Jacek Halicki · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Rice flour: Nithyasrm · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Rice vermicelli: Susan Slater · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Rose water: Pheno Geno Roses · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Saffron: Hubertl · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Sausage: gcardinal from Norway · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Semolina: Sanjay ach · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Shallot: HaJunkiyada · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Table salt: Dubravko Sorić SoraZG on Flickr · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Tomato paste: SKopp · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Turmeric: Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Water: Forbes Johnston from Winchester, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Yogurt: Nithyasrm · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons