Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, rice with dried fruits (shirin polow). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Rice with dried fruits (Shirin polow) is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Rice with dried fruits (Shirin polow) is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
Shirin Polo is a glorious Persian Rice speckled with saffron and topped with golden Shirin means sweet and Polo is rice in Farsi. The mild sweetness and the festive look Dried citrus zest is also available in most supermarkets but as usual homemade is so. Shirin polo, also commonly known as Persian wedding rice or Rosh Hashanah rice, is a traditional Persian rice pilaf that is commonly served to mark special occasions such as weddings.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook rice with dried fruits (shirin polow) using 9 ingredients and 24 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Rice with dried fruits (Shirin polow):
- Take rice
- Get golden raisins
- Prepare dried apricots, cut into half
- Get dates with stones removed and cut into half
- Make ready Saffron (if is not available use turmeric)
- Get Butter
- Take cinnamon powder
- Prepare Lavash bread
- Get Salt
Shirin polo — also known as shekar polo — is a sweet rice pilaf, sometimes very sweet. The recipe below tries to find a balanced middle ground between sweet and savory. Toasted nuts, dried fruits and candied carrots and citrus peel are traditional toppings. According to him, this type of rice is commonly found at Persian festive occasions.
Steps to make Rice with dried fruits (Shirin polow):
- Put a few threads of saffron in a bowl and add 4 Tbsp boiling water,
- Cover the bowl and let to infuse.
- Melt the butter in a pan. Add dried fruits and cinnamon powder to the butter and saute for 3-4 minutes until soft. Set aside.
- Wash the rice. Soak in the water with salt for 1 hour.
- In a pot with water, bring to the boil. Drain the salty water of the rice and add the rice to the boiling water. Cook it for 7-8 minutes and then strain the rice using a colander.
- Pour some oil in the same pot,
- Place Lavash or tortilla bread in the bottom of pot
- Pour half of the par cooked rice on the bread
- And then pour over some of fried fruits
- And saffron water.
- Repeat the process with remaining of the ingredients and then cover the pot with a lid and leave it to cook over medium low heat until is ready.
- Serve it hot,
- Ingredients
His recipe suggested that you could use either turmeric or saffron. Since saffron is so expensive, I opted for turmeric, but you can substitute a the same amount of saffron. Shirin Polo is a Persian basmati rice dish traditionally served at weddings and other social occasions. A great side dish to chicken, fish or any roast. Of course they wish it was!
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