Cookbook Author Naz Deravian’s Guide To Persian Food In LA - Los Angeles - The Infatuation

"Glendale contains a few Persian restaurants, including the famous Raffi’s Place and Nersses Vanak Restaurant, the latter of which cooks abgoosht in the dizi. “At the table, they will mash those ingredients for you,” Deravian says. While in the neighborhood, Deravian recommends also stopping at Pacific Food Mart for pirashki, a stuffed fried dough, similar to the Russian or Armenian pirozhki. “It’s another grocery store, but they make their own pirashki,” she says. “It can either be [stuffed] with ground meat, with potato and egg. You can also have sweet pirashki. And you can obviously do all your shopping there, too.” If you want to learn how to make your own pirashki, Deravian has a recipe in Bottom Of The Pot." - garin pirnia