How to pronounce Mahyawa

Mahyawa is written مهیاوه where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /mæhjɒːˈve/. In plain English letters that is mah-yah-VEH, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Mahyawa?

Mahyawa is a snack of Iran. Where it comes from: Hormozgan. People usually eat it as a snack. Its main ingredients are fish. It tastes sour.

Where Mahyawa comes from

Mahyawa is one of 30 signature dishes of Iran on this map.

• Ghormeh sabzi قورمه‌سبزی · Main dish · Iran

  Ghormeh sabzi is a herb stew, and herbs are most of it: parsley, coriander, chives or leek and fenugreek, chopped and fried for a long time until they turn dark, then simmered with lamb or beef, kidney beans and whole dried limes that give it a deep sour taste.

• Tahdig ته‌دیگ · Rice dish · Iran

  Tahdig means "bottom of the pot".

• Fesenjan فسنجان · Main dish · Gilan

  Fesenjan is a stew of ground walnuts and pomegranate molasses, cooked slowly with chicken or duck until the sauce turns dark brown and the walnuts release their oil.

• Chelow kabab چلوکباب · Main dish · Tehran

  Chelow kabab is steamed rice, chelow, served with one of the many kinds of Iranian kebab, and it is often called the national dish of Iran.

• Abgoosht (dizi) آبگوشت · Soup & stew · Iran

  Abgoosht, literally "meat broth", is a traditional Iranian stew also called dizi, after the stoneware crocks it is served in.

• Mirza ghasemi میرزاقاسمی · Main dish · Gilan

  Mirza ghasemi is a dish from Gilan, the province on the Caspian Sea in northern Iran, eaten as a starter or a main course.

Food of Iran

Dishes like Mahyawa in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Mahyawa:

• Sarde in saor · Snack · Venice, Italy

  Sarde in saor are fried sardines layered with onions slowly cooked in vinegar, with pine nuts and raisins, and left to rest for a day or more.

• Tempoyak · Snack · Pahang (Temerloh), Malaysia

  Tempoyak is a Malay condiment made from fermented durian.

• Hákarl · Snack · Westfjords and Snæfellsnes, Iceland

  Hákarl is fermented Greenland shark.

• Seeni sambol සීනි සම්බෝල · Snack · All Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka

  Seeni sambol, also called sini sambol or sawi sambol, is a Sri Lankan relish of onions cooked slowly until they caramelise, with a taste that is spicy, sweet and aromatic at once.