Nowruz 2027 Food: What People Eat and Where to Celebrate

Nowruz is Sunday 21 March 2027. Nowruz is the new year of Iranian and many Central and West Asian peoples, falling on the March equinox. Families set a Haft-sin table before the equinox and cook seasonal dishes, including herb rice with fish and sweets made from sprouted wheat.

Source: Nowruz.

Also known as Persian New Year, Norooz, Navruz, Nevruz, Newroz, Navreh.

What people eat for Nowruz

Sabzi polo ba mahi (herb rice with fish)

Iran

A Persian dish of rice and chopped herbs, served with white fish. Iranians traditionally eat it for lunch on Nowruz with family and relatives, often with pickled garlic.

Source: Sabzi polo.

Ash reshteh (noodle soup)

Iran

A thick Iranian soup of thin noodles, beans, chickpeas, lentils, herbs and kashk. It is served at Nowruz and Sizdah Be-dar, and the noodles are supposed to symbolise good fortune for the new year.

Source: Ash reshteh.

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Samanu and sumalak (sprouted wheat pudding)

Iran and Central Asia

A sweet paste of germinated wheat and wheat flour, cooked in a large pot for Nowruz. Women and girls in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan often cook it together, sometimes through the night, singing as they do.

Source: Samanu, Nowruz.

Nan-e nokhodchi

Iran

A Persian sweet cooked for Nowruz, named alongside sabzi polo with fish among the foods of the occasion.

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Haft-sin table foods

Iran

The Haft-sin spread holds seven items beginning with the Persian letter sin, several of them edible, including samanu, a sweet pudding made from germinated wheat.

Source: Nowruz.