My friends, family and I love to eat at Zafron Restaurant in Sandy Springs. The people are great and the service is wonderful, but the food is what we keep going back for. One appetizer we especially love is the mirza ghasemi. We would love to have the recipe for this eggplant dish. Thank you! — Susan Cohn, Marietta
Peter Teimori, chef and owner of Zafron, says mirza ghassemi is an Iranian appetizer or main dish based on tandoori or grilled eggplant frequently found in northern Iran and the Caspian Sea region. The restaurant prepares this dish with five medium eggplants. We’ve cut that down for our home cooks. Serve the eggplant with flatbread as an appetizer or light lunch.
From the menu of ... Zafron Restaurant, 236 Johnson Ferry Road, Sandy Springs. 404-255-7402, persianrestaurantsandysprings.com.
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