Celebrating Yalda Night - A Joyful Family Gathering

Among all the edibles, the following are more common to be served at Yalda:

• Fruits: watermelons, pomegranates, red apples, pears, persimmons, and cooked beets. The first three items are the most important ones. In pre-Islam period, when Mithraism was practiced by Persians, red color was a symbol of the sun due to associating the color of dawn. So, it can be the color of these fruits that makes them the integral parts of this tradition.