Pistachios and almonds are widely used in Qazvin foods and sweets

Qazvin, like all cities in Iran, has several unique types of food and one of the characteristics of the food of the people of Qazvin is the use of pistachios and almonds in food.
Mojtaba Abbasi, an anthropologist, explained about the food of Ghimeh Nisar: To prepare this food, meat, onion and tomato paste are fried together with Kermanshah oil and eaten as food.
It is then topped with rice and garnished with sliced ??almonds, oranges and cinnamon. This food is used in parties and formal occasions.
He added: Diomaj is also a food that is prepared to break bread, water and cloth on it to soften. It is then mixed with jar cheese, chopped greens, hot onions, walnuts, garlic and raisins and shot like meatballs.
He added: This food is mostly used in the evenings, the month of Ramadan and the fifty-year-old ceremony in Qazvin.
The anthropologist considered the traditional sweets of Qazvin including baklava, sugar bread, chickpea bread, qarabiyah or almond bread, which are prepared at home and added: considering that there are many pistachios in this region, baklava is prepared in all houses and all houses. During Eid, they throw one or two pans of baklava.
Abbasi also said about the sweetness of almond bread (Gharabieh): This sweet is made with white flour, oil and almond powder; The mixture is arranged in very small balls the size of a fingernail in a pan, and pistachio slices are placed on each one and placed in the oven or oven.
This cookie turns into small hemispheres after cooking. This sweet is mostly used during Nowruz.