Rice with Noodles, Herb Kookoo, Fish, Noodles, and Noodle Soup are the traditional setting of a Persian New Year Food with their New Year celebration. Fish and Noodles for them represents good luck in the year ahead.
With the table being decorated with the ceremonial cloth, alongside it has an array of foods with the haft sin essence or seven "S", each with an undertaking for the coming new year: sabzeh, or sprouted wheat, for rebirth; sir, garlic, for health; samanu, a dense syrup, for strength; somaq, sumac seeds, for the sunrise, victory of light over darkness .
The seven creations and the seven holy immortals protecting them from the Ancient has influenced the seven dishes setting of the Persian New Year Food.
Persian New Year Food also have sib, an apple, for beauty; serkeh, vinegar, for age and patience and senjid, wild lotus-tree fruit.
Before the New Year, Wheat or lentil representing new growth is grown in a flat dish a few days before, then a samanu, or pudding, is made of some wheat sprouts which are transformed and given new life in this pudding that can be prepared together with the Persian New Year Food .
Together with the group of Seven "S" is the Egg Decoration to complete the Persian New Year Food. To symbolize fertility in each family member, this activity has been included in Norooz (Persian New Year) celebration yearly.
Families attempt to set as beautiful a Haft Sin table with the Persian New Year Food as much as they can, as it is not only of traditional and spiritual value, it is witnessed by visitors that a beautiful setting of Haft Sin comes from a family of good taste .
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