Iran: Global Learning for Kids for MultiCultural Kid Blogs

FINALLY here is our post on Iran for Global Learning for Kids!  We bought an Iranian children's CD in July, ordered Pea Boy and other children's stories from Iran in August and finally went out to eat Iranian food (for research!!) in September.  

So huge apologies for the delay....it's been a crazy few months with moving to a new city, starting new schools, and a new job in multicultural social work (me!) as well as a (pretty awful) separation from Malika and Ameenah's dad.....

But we are all very happy in Edinburgh and all feel quite settled here in this fantastic city!

As always we like to explore new places through food and exploring Iran through food was no exception!  We made a booking in a local Middle-Eastern restaurant called Pomegranate and off we went to eat...  The girls loved it because it was pink and I loved it because the waiters were really child friendly.

It was quite challenging to find strictly Iranian dishes on the menu but the waiter recommended Iranian Baba Ganoush, Iranian Chicken Kabob (Kabob-eh Morg) and our new favourite Iranian Doogh, a salty yoghurt drink which tastes soooo good with kabob.

Here are the best food critics in Leith, Edinburgh sampling a range of Iranian foods....

The Chicken Kabob was a firm favourite....

And the classic Middle-Eastern Baba Ghanoush ....we learnt that night that Iran has a similar version called Kashkeh Bademjan which also includes Saffron and gives it a distinctive bright yellow colour....

Once we were home, we decided to recreate the yummy Iranian Doogh , which is a salty yoghurt drink....Malika and Ameenah loved it and it is so simple to make...
As you can see health and safety was a huge concern and Ameenah loved honing her knife skills whilst chopping the mint which we added quite liberally to the drink.

So simple....one cup of natural yoghurt to two cups of water....stir and add mint....a pinch of salt and enjoy!!

We loved listening to this compilation of old Iranian children's songs whilst we chopped and stirred....

And salâmati! به سلامتی, which means Cheers in Persian!

We also loved reading this fun collection of slightly surreal Iranian children's stories...

With gorgeous illustrations which depict Persian family life, centred around food, wonderfully x

Goodnight xx

This post is part of the series for Global Learning for Kids and part of the Muticultural Kid Blogs Series.