By Naz Deravian Durkhanai Ayubi laughed as she recalled peeling walnuts as a child for haft mewa, a beloved Nowruz dish of her native Afghanistan. To Ms. Ayubi, a restaurateur in Adelaide ...

She says Afghans typically celebrate Nowruz with haft mewa, a dish that translates to “seven fruits,” a symbolic and lucky number. For the piece, Deravian spoke to Durkhanai Ayubi, whose family ...

But the real star of the Nowruz table would be haft mewa — a sweet and savory compote. "Me and all the other kids would take our bowls and count all the pieces, one saying like, 'I think I got a ...

Called “haft mewa” — literally, seven fruits — the colorful compote is a traditional marker of Nowruz, or the new year, in Afghanistan and Iran. Of Persian origin, Nowruz means “new day ...

Something that is unique to the Afghan tradition of Nowruz, however, is the preparation of Haft Mewa (seven fruits), which is like a fruit salad and made of a mixture of seven different dried fruits ...

Afghans cook sabzi challow (a spinach and lamb curry), followed by desserts including kolcheh nowrozi (rice flour biscuits) and haft mewa (a dried fruit salad in syrup). For Kazakhs, Nowruz almost ...

From 'haft mewa' to family picnics, Afghan refugees and students in India reminisce about their New Year traditions 'Haft mewa', a drink featuring seven dried fruits and nuts, replaces chai on ...

Something that is unique to the Afghan tradition of Nowruz, however, is the preparation of Haft Mewa (seven fruits), which is like a fruit salad and made of a mixture of seven different dried fruits ...