If you are planning to prepare a lot of Persian food, then you might want to invest in a lime squeezer. If you expect to have some Iranians as house guests, and you want to be a great hostess, then you should obtain a lemon lime squeezer. Iranians often moisten their food with lime juice.

When a Persian cook often goes shopping for “ab lehmo,” she will welcome the discovery of lemon juice. However, the juice of a green colored citrus fruit would please her just as much. Indeed, Iranians use the word “lehmo” when referring to either of those citrus fruits that are known to produce a sour tasting liquid. They add that liquid to many of there sauces.

Now at this point the reader might be a bit confused. He or she might be asking “Why would anyone want to moisten a sauce?” This article has suggested that Persian food requires moistening, while making reference to only the very moist sauces that Iranians pour on their white rice. In fact, there are two ways the Iranians prepare and eat rice.

As indicated, they eat white rice with a tasty sauce, one that contains the sour juice from a citrus fruit. They also enjoy something called “pollo.” A pollo consists of rice mixed with bits of meat, lentils, vegetables or fruit. While those ingredients might add some moisture to the dry grains, they still do not insure creation of a well-moistened dish.

Sometimes cooks add a great deal of melted butter to any dry pollos. At other times, they invite any dinner guests to squirt lime juice on the colorful mixture of grains, meat and other tasty morsels. A feast filled with pollos might also have a sour tasting side dish, a sort of relish. It supplements the sour liquid that guests might want to squeeze onto a plate that is piled high with a colorful rice dish.