North Khorasan souvenirs as same as souvenirs of the other parts of our country contain both eatable materials and handicrafts. One of the unique handicrafts of this region is the double-faced carpet that is one of the reasons that foreign travelers come to this part of Iran.

North Khorasan province is located in the North-East of Iran and has the same border with Turkmenistan from the North part of Iran.

Central of this City is Bojnourd and it is the fifth big province of whole Iran.

North Khorasan province has the big capacity for development of Tourism industry and has many Natural, Historical and Sports attractions.

From the Natural attractions of this province we can point to some of them as follow:

  • Tourist village of Esfidan in Bojnourd city
  • Beshqardash spring of Bojnourd that the water of that has many medicinal properties
  • Baba aman walkway with rich vegetation and full of water spring that is located near the branch beside Atrak River
  • Tourism village of Gelian in Shiravan city

Edible Souvenirs of North Khorasan province

Abnabaat (Candy)

The most famous souvenirs of North Khorasan especially Bojnourd is any kind of candy that the age of making them especially in the local workshops is back to more than one century. It is common for them to eat these candies instead of sugar near their tea. The oldest kind of candy in this province is Abnabaat Qeichy ( one kind of candy) that the age of that back to many years ago. This kind of candy because of cutting with very big traditional scissors has this name. The most famous candy of this province is Abnabaat Shekar panir (one kind of candy) the main product of making this candy is white material as same as dough that is coming from boiling sugar and water together. They boil sugar and water together until it comes to be thick and after that, they make this red material to the white one by rubbing.

Of Corse in some kinds of candies as same as Shekar panir people consume a little rice or wheat flour and in some the other kinds of candies, they use a little albumen.

The most kinds of taste of candies that they are common from very past are as follow:

  • Cardamom
  • Cinnamon
  • Ginger

But today you can find the other tastes of candy in this province either. Some of these taste are as follow:

  • Coconut
  • Pistachios
  • Cocoa

Grape

North Khorasan is the sixth producer of Grape in Iran and it has the fifth level in the surface of land under-producing this product. About 10 percent of grapes of whole Iran is catching from these grapes trees. This province from the part of variety in producing products has the unique level in Iran either.

Some of the most important grapes of this province are as follow:

  • Kolah daary
  • Bi daaneh Soltaani
  • Shast Arous
  • Lal
  • Khalili
  • Sahebi
  • Asgary
  • Sefid
  • Sabouni
  • Yaquoti

Two faces carpets

Weaving this kind of carpet is only from the Turkmen peoples of this province and you cannot find the other models of this carpet from the other Turkmen peoples in the other places. The special village of Doidoukh Olia from the part of Razoujer galan city is the main part of this kind of two-faced carpet. This kind of carpet preparing with the silky kind of cotton that they make by the natural colours. Some of the needed cotton are preparing from inside and some the other kinds of cotton are preparing from the outside of the village. All of these cotton are dyeing inside the village. For making this kind of two-faced carpet two weavers are sitting behind the special place of weaving carpet that each side of that has its own design. This kind of carpet has only one main difference in prepared with the one face carpet.

Some of the famous designs of two face carpet are as follow:

  • Yamout
  • Chahar Fasl (Four seasons)
  • Qarqachaaq
  • Qaapqaapi
  • Toranj (Orange)

Of Corse two face carpet because of the difficult way of preparing and consuming a long time is not making in a big size. These kinds of carpets have many fans in Europe and countries in the South-East of Asia.

 

Qorabieh is a kind of Tabriz traditional sweet that it can find in both Tabriz city and also East-Azerbaijan. This sweet is one of the special souvenirs of Tabriz city.

The main consume material in this sweet is Almond and it has also some the other materials such as follow:

  • Pistachio
  • Sugar
  • Albumen

In the Pistachio Qorabieh instead of Almond people must consume Pistachio.

Another kind of Qorabieh with the name of Coconut Qorabieh people consume Coconut powder instead of Almond.

How to prepare this unique pastry?

Ingredients:

Raw peeled Almond: 150 gram.

Sugar: 200 gram.

Albumen: 3 numbers.

Blended sugar, pistachio, and almond: necessary amount.

(Serve for 4-5 people)

  1. Make Almond in the powder shape and pour it inside Meat Grinder 2times.
  2. If the dough was stiff add a little albumen to it.
  3. Rub dough and let the colour of that change to white.
  4. Pour dough in the Cloth Funnel with the simple shape in the top.
  5. Put oil paper in the oven and pour the dough in the oven by the Cloth Funnel in the circle shape.(Pay attention that circles has enough space from each other)
  6. After that pour pistachio, sugar and almond on them.
  7. Pour sweets in the middle level of an oven that it was warm from the past by 350 Fahrenheit degree for 20-30 minutes.
  8. Wait until sweets have the golden colour.
  9. After pastries come to be cold separate them from oil paper.

This kind of pastry come to be dry in the weather so put them in the container and close the door of that or put them in the Nylon.

Point:

This pastry because of having pistachio and almond contain herbal iron, so don’t forget to pay attention in consuming.

یکی از معروف ترین سوغاتی های اردبیل نان سنتی است که در اینجا طرز تهیه این نان محلی را مشاهده می کنید.

عناصر:

کره محلی: 200 گرم

آرد: فقط کمی (برای اینکه خمیر به دست نچسبد)

شکر: دو لیوان

شیر: یک کیلوگرم

تخم مرغ: پنج عدد

پودر خمیر ترش: دو قاشق غذاخوری

زردچوبه: یک قاشق غذاخوری

نمک: یک قاشق چایخوری

(برای 7-8 نفر سرو می شود)

طرز تهیه نان سنتی اردبیل؟

شیر را تا 37 درجه گرم کنید.

کره، شکر، زردچوبه، پودر رب، نمک و سفیده تخم مرغ را در ظرف بریزید و آرد را به آنها اضافه کنید و خمیر را درست کنید.

مواد را بمالید تا خمیر نرم شود و به دستتان نچسبد.

روی خمیر را با نایلون و دستمال بپوشانید و به مدت دو ساعت در جای گرم قرار دهید.

حالا خمیر را به قطعات کوچک برش دهید و بگذارید ده دقیقه بیشتر بماند.

باز کردن خمیر به شکلی که قطر آن دو سانتی متر باشد.

با چنگال طرح را روی خمیر درست کنید.

زرده و شیر را با هم مخلوط کنید و این مخلوط را روی خمیر بمالید.

خمیر را از 3 ساعت زودتر در فری که گرم شده بود قرار دهید.

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Ingredients:

Meat: 300 gram

Almond slice: 150 gram

Egg: 5 numbers

Salt: necessary amount

Saffron: necessary amount

Oil: necessary amount

(Serve for 5-6 people)

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How to prepare Ardebili Almond stew?

Cut meats in size that they are suitable for stew.

Pour water on meats and give time to them and let them bake.

Fry onions and add half cooked meat with salt, turmeric, the little pepper, saffron and almond slices to it and roasting all of them together on the frying pan.

At the end put egg yolk without stir on the meat and let them bake.

It is possible to put some slices of almond on the egg yolk either.

You can eat this stew with both bread and rice.

Enjoy it!

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Ingredients:

Dough Tarkhineh: Four modules

Onion: One number (big size)

Oil: A little only for fry (onion, mint, garlic, mint)

Soup vegetables: Half a kilogram

Lentil: Two modules

Salt, Turmeric, Balck Pepper: Necessary amount

Curd: Necessary amount

Mint and Hot Garlic: If you want

Qarqorout: Only a little

(Serve for 4-5 people)

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How to prepare Dough Tarkhineh Soup?

  1. Bake lentil separately and put it aside.
  2. Put Tarkhineh in the dish and pour cold water on it until its Grains that they stick together break apart from each other. (do this step in the pot that you consider for baking soup)
  3. Fry onion in oil and let it come to be in golden colour after that add little Turmeric to it.
  4. Add Tarkhineh with water, soup vegetables, salt and pepper to the soup. Make the heat under pot low and wait until soup vegetables prepare.
  5. Now add baked lentil and Qarqorout to the soup and wait until your food prepare.
  6. At the end add a little curd to the soup.
  7. In the time of serving you can decorate your soup with curd, hot garlic, hot onion and hot mint.

Ingredients

Baking Powder: half of teaspoon

Cardamom Powder: 1 teaspoon

Sugar Powder: 1 teaspoon

Egg yolk: 2 numbers

Yogurt: 250 gram

Sugar powder: 2 module

Liquid Oil: necessary amount

Flour: necessary amount

(For eight persons as sweet)

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How to prepare Yazd Qotab?

Mix oil and sugar powder with the electronic mixture until they pale.

Add egg yolk and mix them whole together with the electronic mixture.

Add cardamom powder, baking powder, and yogurt to the mixture.

Add flour little by little to the mixture and pay attention until dough is not sticking to your fingers.

Wide dough on the surface that it has powder.

Cut dough with cake mold.

Full inside your dough with materials of the middle of Qotab (walnut powder, almond powder, sugar powder and cardamom).

Stick around your dough with the fork and pay attention until materials don’t come out of it.

Fry them and after the colour of them change to the bright brown get them out of the oil.

Put Qotabs on the dish of sugar powder.

Violet is the name of kind of plant from the Violaceae family that is mostly found in the temperate regions of the world with the short stem and Purple or Yellow colours. Violet has Therapeutic and Medical Properties either and use for making Afshar crystal in the past.

Morphology Specifications

This plant is Gramineous, Stable. It has left of the same place and comes to be outside from the Collar. The leaves of this plant are in the shape of  Heart, with long petioles and they are located on the ground level because there is not specified aerial stem in this kind of plant. Lateral buds appear on the side of the petioles of  Violet. The flowers are single, beautiful and with the Purple colour and they are rarely White or with Rosy colour and fragrant. The long Peduncles of the flower that they born from the Petioles before come to be flower had a bent shape like a reed that is visible. The fruits of Violet are Glume, spherical, covered with fluff and they contain the seeds with the Yellow colour and with White patchiness. Beautiful and scented flowers of Violet are the appearance in the Early Spring. In summer flowers are without petals that they appearance between Petioles which always remains secret inside them.

Single flowers of Violet are in the Purple colour and rarely White with the fragrant flowers. Long Peduncles before come to be flower has bent shape like a reed. Peduncles appear from between the leaves. In front of the light, they lose their colour. In the dark and dry place, they keep their color even for more than one year.

Violet in Iran

Naturally Violet is growing in the North of Iran, but given that today it is planting in the garden as an ornamental flower, it can be seen in most parts of Iran. As Violet is planting in winter so it is called the flower under the snow.

Violet diseases

Cucumber mosaic virus is one of the plant viruses that has been extracted from this plant and it is proven on Violet.

Violet in the Traditional medicine

Base on the traditional medicine all parts of Violet such as leaves, flowers, seeds, roots, and flowering branches have medicinal consumption.

Violet is wet, pungent, slightly bitter and cold. This plant has the properties such as follow:

  • Anti-inflammation
  • Mucus
  • Stimulant
  • Diuretic
  • Anti-tumor
  • Anti-rheumatic
  • Laxative
  • Antimicrobials
  • Stabilization capillary walls and blood purifier
  • Sudoriferous

Prepared syrup of it brewed Violet can be used for the treatment of a cough. Because of being rich in the soap materials, so it is good mucus and it is the reason of strengthening of the blood. Pour two spoons of Violet powder in the half a liter boiling water and then use it with milk and honey.

Brewed Violet can be used after being in the doping shape as compresses for the treatment of skin diseases. For the treatment of rheumatism, it can use two times in a day from the compress of the brewed Violet on stance. From the powdered of Violet and water, you can make a dough that is helpful for wound healing and injuries.

About 6-10 grams of Violet seeds has the Laxative effect on the children and the consumption of 7-15 grams of that on the water has the slight effect of laxative. From the violet oil can be used to avoid from the followings:

  • Hair loss
  • Dandruff
  • Itchy skin
  • skin beauty
  • Gingivitis
  • Headaches and nosebleeds

In Literature

As Violet is the name of the flower so it has many consumptions in the poems either. You can find many beats of poems from the different poets that they use this word to show the much beautiful sense of themselves. Some of these poets are as follow:

  • Hafez
  • Saadi
  • Maulana
  • Ferdowsi
  • Khayyam
  • Attar

In Europe and totally West culture (not forget me),it is using for such this purpose.

 

Black Hellebore or Christmas Rose is from Ranunculaceae family. It is also mentioned in the books of traditional medicine as Rajol alray. The root is used as the vertical composition of the Ayarj Lvghazya.

Specifications

Black Hellebore is the herbaceous plant, Perennial, Short, with green branches.

Traditional medicine

Black hellebore nature is hot and dry. General properties of that are laxatives bile and absorbing mucus from deep tissues in the body and this plant is the therapist of the cold diseases and also it is stronger than the white kinds. In all interactions that hellebore has the active role the black one is more effective and has faster acting either. It is used in Temple and head pain, the old water loss from the eye and chest pain, clear the respiratory tract, offal products, bladder, and uterus.

If a few days laid them near sweets, and or with Peeled barley or boiled with lentils and drink the water of it, it does not hurt you. It is harmful to the kidneys and correcting of it are Tragacanth, thyme, two Swan, Fitr Asalyvn Rock- Parsley, Fudenjan, and mastic. Two shekels of that is deadly with diarrhea, shortness of breath and the syrup contain half a gram to half a shekel of this plant.

Some the other traditional names of Black Hellebore are as follow:

  • Kharbaq Asoud (Hellebore Aswad)
  • Katky Siah
  • Khale Zangi

1)    The nature of that is very hot and dry.

2)    It is consuming for destroying white stains so mix it with vinegar and rub it on your skin.

3)    For treatment of voice on the ear baking Black Hellebore with vinegar and drop it into your ear.

4)    It is a soothing toothache.

5)    For treating hearing boil the roots of Black Hellebore and drop some of that in your ear. (Do that under doctor opinion)

6)    Brewed shape of this plant is consuming for the treatment of Obsession and

Hypochondria.

7)    For treatment of half-headache and Epilepsy drink brewed shape of Black Hellebore.

8)    It is very profitable for eyes and it is one of the reasons of improve vision.

9)    Get out of Soda, Bile, and Mucus from the body.

10) Get out bad phlegm from the body.

11) It is strong Purgative.

12) It is helpful for swelling of intestine, stomach, bladder.

13) It is the treatment of frequent urination.

14) Underground stems of this plant are strong Purgative that they must consume with caution.

15) It is heart amplifier.

16) It is helpful for the patients that they have sudden paralysis as same as brain bloodshed.

17) This plant is harmful to kidneys and it must consume with Katira, Pennyroyal, and Mastic.

18) If you pour the brewed shape of that around your home it makes the insects fugitive.

19) This plant is Toxic and Fatal. Try to don’t consume it and if you do that be under doctor opinion.

Sepasi Canids Flower (Gentianales) is one of the phylum’s of the plants. It is in the group of dicotyledons with joined regular corolla.

Sepasi Flower

Sepasi flower is the genus of Sepasi Canids Flowers with about 400 kinds and wide distribution that one of its properties is the folded between two parts of its corolla. Zechariah Razi uses from this plant for treatment of sick persons. We can point to the acaulescent gentian from its several kinds.

This flower is very beautiful with the green spear leaves and it can be grown easily in the apartment. The plant is resistant to cold and it can be grown easily in winter. For planting, this kind of plant chooses a big size of the pot and fill it with moist soil, sand and rich in organic fertile. Then plant the seeds at a depth of 25 cm. Put the pots under the direct sunlight and the place that it has lots of bright on itself.

Watering the pots must be done regularly and at least two days of the week, for the better drainage of the soil you can make 2 to 3 holes under the pot and choose big saucer for it. Using soluble fertilizers once in a three week helps the plant to grow better.

The proliferation of this plant is possible from the seeds and cuttings in the spring. It has flowered in the summer with the urceolate shape and in blue and purple colours.

Marshmallow with the scientific name of Alcea is kind of plant from Malvaceae family that is annual, grows by itself and flowers, fruits and roots of it have medicinally consumption.

Marshmallow flower has 2 meters height with Pink, Red, and White colours which they use as covers of drugs. A Large genus of flowering plants has 200-220 kinds of angiosperms. This plant is a native of warm regions, under tropical equatorial and tropical areas between two north and south of the equator circuits in the whole world. Marshmallow has the beneficial effect in the treatment of liver diseases and acne.

How to use

First, you must dry petals of the flower of Marshmallow and after that grind them. Then for each use have a teaspoonful of the powder of grind Marshmallow in the glass of boiling water that come to be cold and let them be there for 8 hours and after that use it.

Medicinal properties

The nature of Marshmallow is temperate, laxative and strong purgative, colic, mucus, anti cough and belly twisting. The seed of it is useful in the treatment of stomach ulcers.

Needs of Chinese Rose Mallow

Appropriate Soil:

The best soil for the plant is a mixture of loam and peat.

Swap pot:

Every year in the spring change the pot of the flower with the big another one. You must be content when the pot come to be in the large and growing mode and the impossibility of swap surface soil of the pot with a new and rich soil.

Cleaning the leaves:

The spray mist is enough. If necessary you can clean the leaves with a cloth or damp sponge. Do not use shiny chemical materials.

Proliferation:

Cuttings wooden rooted in summer of Chinese Marshmallow are coming to the bazaar with the Yellow and Orange colours. The flowers didn’t last more than two days if humidity environment reduced buds are coming down before they are opening, mist sprayed prevent from this failure.

Pruning:

The emergence of many flowers and being more beautiful of them in the next year is because of pruning. In the end of the winter, the height of branches must be reduced to the half and the place of cut in order to prevent the entry of pathogens must disinfection with Sulfur dust and the surface must be covered with petroleum jelly.

Watering:

In order to keep the soil moist it needs irrigation three times a week in summer, never let the excess water stay in the pot. Visit drain. In the winter the time of watering is when the surface soil is completely dry. (basically once every two weeks watering in winter is enough.)

Humidity:

In the spring and summer, needs daily spray mist with warm water without mineral. To provide permanent moisture and sustainable need map with pebbles of add water pay attention that the end of pot must not connect to the water, in the winter it is enough to have one time a week spray mist for the pot. It loves a gentle stream of air.

Nutrition:

Every two weeks, once in the spring and summer (especially with the advent of flowers) with liquid artificial food and or solid dissolved in water especially for ornamental plants feed the plant according to the manufacturer’s instructions.

Suitable soil:

The best soil for the plant is a mixture of loam and peat.

Swap pot:

Every year swap the pot of the plant with another big one. When the pot come to be large and enlargement, be content failure to replace the surface soil with the new and rich one.

Cleaning the leaves:

The spray mist is enough, if it is necessary you can clean leaves with a cloth or damp sponge. Don’t use shiny chemical substances.

Proliferation:

Rooted the wooden cuttings in summer, Chinese Marshmallow with the yellow and orange colours are in the markets. The flowers of this plant only live for two days and if the humidity decrease the buds are falling down before opening. Mist sprayed prevent from this failure.

Pruning:

The appearance of many beautiful flowers in the next year is the result of pruning, at the end of the winter, decrease the length of the branches and the place of cut must be cover with Petrolatum and get clean and disinfection with sulfur in order to prevent the entry of pathogens.