How to pronounce Pashmak

Pashmak is written پشمک where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /pæʃˈmæk/. In plain English letters that is pash-MAK, 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 Pashmak?

Pashmak is a dessert of Iran. Where it comes from: Yazd. People usually eat it as a snack. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour. It tastes sweet.

Where Pashmak comes from

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

• Qottab قطاب · Dessert · Yazd

  Qottab is an almond-filled, deep-fried turnover and one of the best-known traditional sweets of Yazd province in central Iran.

• 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.

Food of Iran

Dishes like Pashmak in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Pashmak:

• Kahi كاهي · Dessert · All Iraq, Iraq

  Kahi is an Iraqi breakfast pastry made from layers of thin, flaky filo-like dough.

• Hininy حنيني · Dessert · Najd, Saudi Arabia

  Hininy is a traditional sweet of Najd made from dates, brown wheat bread or flour, ghee or butter, ground cardamom and saffron.

• Kadayıf dolması · Dessert · Erzurum, Türkiye

  Kadayıf dolması is a dessert from Erzurum: dried pastry shreds, kadayıf, are rolled around a filling of walnuts, fried and then soaked in syrup.

• Lazzaqiyat لزاقيات · Dessert · Jordan

  Lazzaqiyat is a folk sweet of the Levant made from flatbread a little thicker than saj bread, which is soaked straight after baking with Arab clarified butter and honey or sugar.