Grown-ups know. When you walk in Rasht Municipality Square, you should open your eyes like a panorama and turn around; What a glory! What a beauty! It is enough to hold a coffee, tea or other favorite drink in one hand and a local sweet in the other hand. At that time, visiting Rasht will not only be different from visiting European cities, but it may be like visiting Rome, Paris, Amsterdam, and London!
Panorama, eyes and wheels that are at your feet. Coffee, tea or drinks that can be easily found anywhere in the world. So what are we doing here? We are going to fill your hand with sweets. The local sweets of Rasht are often mixed with the aroma of rice and are filled with the creativity of the hands who carefully plant the seeds in the rice!
Prominent string
One of the most popular Rashti souvenirs and local sweets of Rasht is Khushkar string (or Khushkar string). A sweet that you can see in many fancy pastry or bread shops in Tehran and other cities. In the past, this dish was produced for consumption during the holy month of Ramadan, but today there are other shops that cook exclusively Khushkar noodles throughout the year.
The raw materials and preparation method of Khushkar noodles are very easy. Noodles are usually made by combining rice flour and water. Among them, it is filled with a mixture of walnuts, pistachios, sugar, cardamom and water. Because some shops make and sell this semi-prepared sweets. You just need to buy it and fry it in hot oil at home.
Fouman muffins
It is true that its name is Fuman cookie, but it is also considered a souvenir of Rasht, which is really one of the local sweets of Rasht. Because Foman cookies have been cooked in Rasht city for a long time, in addition to Foman city.
This delicious sweet is also available independently in many parts of Iran, just like Khushkar string and maybe even more. Flour, eggs, sugar, animal oil, walnuts and cinnamon are used to prepare this delicious cookie. The middle part of this cookie is so delicious and soft that if you eat it once, you probably won't eat another cookie!
Windows
Do you know window bread or our own window bread? This sweet is not unique to Rasht city; But in Rasht, it is cooked in abundance and of course with a very high quality. The locals of Rasht are very fond of this sweet and, like in other Iranian cities, they use it to entertain their guests, especially during Nowruz and ancient Iranian holidays.
This sweet is usually very exciting for children; Because it has funny shapes, like moon and star, etc. But even if we pass the nostalgic aspect of this sweet, it is a unique and special taste that draws us to this sweet.
Burnt almonds
Now we want to introduce to you another sweet from another city in Gilan province, which is also baked in Rasht. This sweet, called Sohan Badam Sokhateh or Burnt Almonds, is a local Astana Ashrafieh sweet.
To make Burnt Almonds, of course, you should not burn the almonds. Rather, the composition of its name refers to the sugar that is roasted until it becomes caramelized. The sweet of burnt almond shavings is made from the combination of sugar and almonds that have been well pounded or mixed.
Laco bread
Nan Lako is one of the most laborious dishes of Rashti that probably only the locals can make it with their inexhaustible taste. To prepare this delicious bread, they mix rice flour and wheat flour and make a thin and soft dough. How to cook lako is very precise. This thin dough is placed upside down on the back of a clay dish called Gamaj and cooked in this way. After cooking, saffron is the substance that gives a unique taste to lako.
Kaka Pumpkin
a sweet with pumpkin; Do not be surprised and do not be afraid! We don't mean the green squash that you put in the stew! It means candied pumpkin or the same pumpkin that tastes like sugar!
To make kakakdo, a combination of milk, sugar, rose water, eggs, and flour is used with cooked candied pumpkin. Then the resulting mixture should be fried in hot oil and give us something like a mixture of dumplings and cocoa.
August pastry
All of us remember the city of Masuleh with its attractive nature and unparalleled urban planning and house building. But this beautiful city also has a local sweet that is also baked in Rasht. In the name of Agarde sweets. Agardeh is made with local rice flour, sugar powder, cardamom, clove powder and ginger. This sweet has a long shelf life and its taste is slightly spicy because of the ginger.