Traditional foods have an important function; they carry the atmosphere of a ritual or of an important national and religious occasion. The importance of traditional and occasion-related foods goes beyond their taste or properties. Cooking sholeh zard or buying zulbia and bamieh, for example, helps our people bring the atmosphere of the month of Ramadan into their lives.
All Muslim nations have these traditional foods for the month of Ramadan, and especially for the iftar meal. Iftar is a special meal; it is a spiritual table that Muslims honor with distinctive foods. Sweets that are mostly prepared from the most valuable ingredients so as to be worthy of that luminous table.
The website "Taste Atlas" has identified Iran's Ramadan dessert as sholeh zard and introduced it as the third most popular traditional iftar dessert. For us, sholeh zard is a kind of ritual dessert that is offered as a votive dish not only in the blessed month of Ramadan, but also on many other religious occasions.
Which of the traditional iftar desserts have you tried?
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian