ghee 18:42 Feb 10, 2010
When I first went to Iran I was working in two of the high schools in Kashan. One day I went to a restaurant in the bazaar with the "dabirs" and had "ghorme sabzi" with "polo"...the teachers were telling me this was the best place to eat since they used "roghane haivani"...it never occurred to me that it was ghee...I was translating it as "animal oil", thinking it must be rendered fat from the fat-tail sheep in Iran. I was prepared for something awful.
It took some complicated explanation around the table for the teachers to explain how the "roghane haivani" is made, and that it was NOT from the fat in the tail of the sheep. Anyhow, the lunch was very tasty.
Ghee is used pretty much all over the Mid East. The best Lebanese baklava uses it and you can tell by the aroma when you smell it in the shop. |