Also known as advieh, this aromatic blend comes from Persian cuisine. It’s fragrant, a little sweet, and gently warming. It is delicious mixed with sugar and sprinkled over baked goods, donuts, and rice pudding or added to dried fruits that are cooking into jam. It straddles the sweet and savory world because it’s also great for flavoring rice pilaf with toasted nuts, lentil soup, lamb meatballs, braised chicken, or vegetable stew. It’s a blend that is shared by chefs and pastry chefs. Use it to make Persian-Style Carrots and Black-Eyed Peas.

Ingredients

　　1/4 cup dried organic rose petals (available online)

　　1/4 cup ground cinnamon

　　1 tablespoon freshly ground black pepper

　　1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom

　　1 teaspoon ground nutmeg

　　1 teaspoon ground coriander

　　Pass the rose petals through a medium-mesh sieve into a small mixing bowl to remove any bits of stem and to grind them into a fine powder. Add the cinnamon, pepper, cardamom, nutmeg, and coriander and stir to blend. Store in an airtight container out of direct sunlight for up to 3 months.

　　Reprinted with permission from Soframiz by Ana Sortun and Maura Kilpatrick, 2016. Published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.Buy the full book from Amazon.